πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core MP.1
🚀 Challenge puzzles
Make sense of problems and keep at them (puzzles that need thinking, not a known method)
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1One 🍎 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
2One 🍓 weighs the same as 2 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
3A farm has chickens and cows: 13 heads and 40 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
4One 🍓 weighs the same as 2 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
5One 🍊 weighs the same as 2 🍎. The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
6I am a multiple of 5. I am more than 26 and less than 31. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
7The pattern keeps going: 10, 17, 24, 31, … What is number 20 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
8One 🍐 weighs the same as 2 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
9One 🍓 weighs the same as 3 🍐. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
10The pattern keeps going: 20, 26, 32, 38, … What is number 12 in the pattern?
Answer: ______________
11One 🍓 weighs the same as 2 🍊. The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
12One 🍌 weighs the same as 3 🍓. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 7
- 2. 6
- 3. 6
- 4. 4
- 5. 5
- 6. 30
- 7. 143
- 8. 6
- 9. 7
- 10. 86
- 11. 14
- 12. 6
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