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Welcome to Common Core Fun! We make original, classroom-tested and age-appropriate puzzles, and joke & riddle FUNsheets to help teachers, parents, tutors and motivated students learning math. All of these classroom or home activities were created with 10+ years of teaching experience and fun.

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Welcome to Common Core Fun! We make original, classroom-tested and age-appropriate puzzles, and joke & riddle FUNsheets to help teachers, parents, tutors and motivated students learning math. All of these classroom or home activities were created with 10+ years of teaching experience and fun.
Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences and series
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Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences and series

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This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. It is a riddle worksheet where students have an answer bank and they use that to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. Kids like this activities because they make the math meaningful, and FUN, and teachers like them because the answer bank gives students a tool to self-assess. It is also great for both homeschool and special education students because it includes an answer bank for students and answer sheets for teachers. In this particular worksheet, students learn about arithmetic and geometric sequences and series by finding the nth term and finding the sum of n terms. There is also one question that asks about the common ratio.
Inverse Functions - Graphs
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Inverse Functions - Graphs

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In this activity students must match the graph of a function to its inverse. In the process, they will find the answer to a joke - "What do you call a sleeping bull?"
Arithmetic Sequences and Series
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Arithmetic Sequences and Series

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This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. It is a riddle worksheet where students have an answer bank and they use that to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. Kids like this activities because they make the math meaningful, and FUN, and teachers like them because the answer bank gives students a tool to self-assess. Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too! In this particular worksheet, students learn about arithmetic sequences and series by finding the nth term and finding the sum of n terms.
Interval Notation Practice
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Interval Notation Practice

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These activities requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. It is a riddle worksheet where students have an answer bank and they use that to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. Kids like this activities because they make the math meaningful, and FUN, and teachers like them because the answer bank gives students a tool to self-assess. Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too! In this worksheet students are given a number line representing a range of numbers and asked to match the number line picture to the interval notation representation of that range of numbers. In the process, they solve a riddle, which they enjoy doing.
SOHCAHTOA - finding missing sides
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SOHCAHTOA - finding missing sides

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In this activity, students use basic trigonometry (SOHCAHTOA) to find the missing side of a right-triangle. In the process, the match their answers to an answer bank and find the punchline to the joke "How do you fire a math teacher?"
Periodic Functions and Cycles of Time
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Periodic Functions and Cycles of Time

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This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. Drill but don’t kill It is a riddle worksheet where students have an answer bank and they use that to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. Kids like this activities because they make the math meaningful, and FUN, and teachers like them because the answer bank gives students a tool to self-assess. Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too! In this worksheet, students must evaluate the period of a function and match it to the units it most likely represents (i.e. if it is 7 then the answer is days in a week)
Polynomial Long Division
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Polynomial Long Division

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This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. It is a riddle worksheet where students have an answer bank and they use that to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. Kids like this activities because they make the math meaningful, and FUN, and teachers like them because the answer bank gives students a tool to self-assess. Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too! In this particular worksheet, students learn about polynomial division with no remainders.
Two Step Equations
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Two Step Equations

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It is a riddle worksheet in which students use an answer bank to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. They like this activity because it makes the math meaningful and FUN. Teachers like it because the answer bank gives students a tool to self-assess. Because of the answer bank for students and answer sheet for teachers, this activity is great for home, school and special education! In this activity, students solve 2-step equations and in the process apply the order of operations to solve the joke. PLEASE REMEMBER TO RATE THIS FUNSHEET! ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
Order of Operations
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Order of Operations

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This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. Drill but don’t kill It is a riddle worksheet where students have an answer bank and they use that to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. Kids like this activities because they make the math meaningful, and FUN, and teachers like them because the answer bank gives students a tool to self-assess. Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too! In this worksheet, students must show their familiarity with the unit circle by finding expressions that match a given expression in value. This is a great warmup exercise for the beginning of the school year. It is a riddle worksheet - Why did the M&M go to school? - where students must work with the standard PEMDAS operations and positive and negative integers to get the answer.
Quadratic Function Transformations
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Quadratic Function Transformations

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In this activity, students work use their knowledge of vertical, horizontal and stretch transformations to parabola's. In the process, they answer the joke "How do you get 4 suits for a dollar?"
Radians to Degree Conversions
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Radians to Degree Conversions

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This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. It is a riddle worksheet where students have an answer bank and they use that to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. Kids like this activities because they make the math meaningful, and FUN, and teachers like them because the answer bank gives students a tool to self-assess. Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too! In this worksheet, students convert degrees to radians.
Factor by Grouping
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Factor by Grouping

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These activities requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. It is a riddle worksheet where students have an answer bank and they use that to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. Kids like this activities because they make the math meaningful, and FUN, and teachers like them because the answer bank gives students a tool to self-assess. Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too! Students match 12 3rd degree polynomials in standard form to their factored solution in this worksheet by factoring each by grouping the first 2 and last 2 terms. In the process, they solve the (potentially offensive) riddle - what do you call a fat psychic - A four chin teller. This is excellent practice for students who need to make sure they are doing this process correctly.
SAT Style Equations and Ratios
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SAT Style Equations and Ratios

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This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. Drill but don’t kill It is a riddle worksheet where students have an answer bank and they use that to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. Kids like this activities because they make the math meaningful, and FUN, and teachers like them because the answer bank gives students a tool to self-assess. Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too! In this worksheet, students practice solving different equations in questions derived from practice ACT, SAT and other standardized exams. They require algebra skills but also practice logical reasoning.
Parametric Equations
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Parametric Equations

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This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. It is a riddle worksheet where students have an answer bank and they use that to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. Kids like this activities because they make the math meaningful, and FUN, and teachers like them because the answer bank gives students a tool to self-assess. Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too! In this activity, students eliminate the parameter t to match parametric equations to their cartesian counterparts. In the process, they solve a "joke" which is There are 13 problems which practice lots of balancing equations and substitution. The functions include linear, root, quadratic, cubic and cube roots.
Simplifying Radicals with Variables
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Simplifying Radicals with Variables

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This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. It is a riddle worksheet where students have an answer bank and they use that to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. Kids like this activities because they make the math meaningful, and FUN, and teachers like them because the answer bank gives students a tool to self-assess. In this worksheet, students simplify radicals and match their answers to the bank given in order to solve the riddle. These questions include numbers and variables. Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too!
Factoring Trinomials with a Leading Coefficient
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Factoring Trinomials with a Leading Coefficient

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These activities requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. It is a riddle worksheet where students have an answer bank and they use that to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. Kids like this activities because they make the math meaningful, and FUN, and teachers like them because the answer bank gives students a tool to self-assess. Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too! This riddle worksheet includes 16 problems where students factor trinomials with a leading coefficient. By solving the problems, students get the answer to the joke: "why was the cat so small?"
Solving Exponential Equations
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Solving Exponential Equations

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In this activity, students solve exponential equations and match their answers to an answer bank. In the process, the solve the joke "What did one wall say to the other?"
Unit Circle Mastery
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Unit Circle Mastery

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This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. Drill but don’t kill It is a riddle worksheet where students have an answer bank and they use that to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. Kids like this activities because they make the math meaningful, and FUN, and teachers like them because the answer bank gives students a tool to self-assess. Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too! In this worksheet, students must show their familiarity with the unit circle by finding expressions that match a given expression in value.
Solving Logarithm Equations
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Solving Logarithm Equations

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This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. It is a riddle worksheet where students have an answer bank and they use that to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. Kids like this activities because they make the math meaningful, and FUN, and teachers like them because the answer bank gives students a tool to self-assess. Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too! In the worksheet students solve for a missing variable using logarithmic equations. Students practice logarithms and basic algebra.
Solving Equations with Exponents and Radicals
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Solving Equations with Exponents and Radicals

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This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. It is a riddle worksheet where students have an answer bank and they use that to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. Kids like this activities because they make the math meaningful, and FUN, and teachers like them because the answer bank gives students a tool to self-assess. Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too! In this activity, students solve equations involving fractions, exponents and roots to solve the joke.