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.
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.
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 home, school and special education!
In this worksheet, students evaluate different piecewise functions at different x-values.
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.
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 is a riddle worksheet that gives 2 functions and requires students to evaluate each at 5 different values for a total of 10 problems. In doing the worksheet, the students answer a riddle and match their correct answer to a letter in the riddle. The worksheet is meant to be an introductory activity in a functions unit.
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.
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 summation notation and how it is involved in arithmetic and geometric sequences and series.
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.
In this activity, students take functions for x and y defined as functions of t and algebraically manipulate them to get y as a function of x. They match their answers to a bank and in the process find the answer to the joke "Why did the cookie go to the hospital?"
This packet includes 4 different activities involving parent functions and transformations. 1 activity deals only with absolute value functions and another with only quadratic functions, while 2 include 4 different parent functions. In each activity, they match answers to an answer bank to solve a riddle.
They are riddle worksheets 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!
I've also thrown in a set of 10 multiple choice questions as an added bonus.
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!
This is a worksheet for applying the properties of logarithms to simplify numeric expressions. All three properties are used to simplify these and it reinforces fractional exponents also. Tell them it is the funniest joke you have ever heard, then show them how to do numbers 1 and 6 and let them work on the rest.
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 activity because it makes the math meaningful and FUN. 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 home, school and special education!
In this worksheet, students simplify 16 different square root radicals to answer the joke.
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 these 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 home, school and special education!
This is a simple activity I used to introduce arithmetic and geometric sequences and series. The activity could be used for students of all grade levels because it really only requires pattern recognition. Students are given the first 3 numbers of a pattern and asked to find the next three. They solve the joke: “How do you make holy water?” NOTE there are 2 versions - one with the word hell and one with the word heck, you can decide which is the most appropriate for your needs.
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.
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 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 answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for home, school and special education.
In this worksheet, students must match a complex number to a graph to solve a joke.
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.
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 summation notation and how it is involved in arithmetic and geometric sequences and series.
This mini-packet includes 3 different joke/riddle worksheets that focus on the rules of radicals or square root operations. The worksheets progress from expanding radicals to simplifying radicals with only numbers to simplifying expressions involving variables. Each worksheet contains a joke/riddle and an answer bank for students to match their answers to in order to find the punchline.
In this activity, students match an absolute value function to its graph. They practice vertical and horizontal shifts along with stretches and reflections and in the process find the solution to the joke "What is a butterfly's favorite subject?"
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!
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?"
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 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 answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for home, school and special education!
In this particular worksheet, students learn about summation notation and how it relates to arithmetic and geometric series.