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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.
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?"
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.
Unit Circle and Quadrants
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Unit Circle and Quadrants

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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. 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 work with trigonometric ratios as they determine which quadrant and angle lies in and then determine what the angle is.
Piecewise Functions
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Piecewise Functions

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In this activity, students match a piecewise defined function to its graph, and in the process they find the answer to a joke: "What kind of horses go out after dusk?"
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 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.
Mayan Numbers
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Mayan Numbers

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This is a great activity for students to learn about number systems, exponents and Mayan numbers. The Mayans used a place value system, just like ours, except with base-20 instead of base 10 (they counted with their fingers and toes).
Functions vs. Relations
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Functions vs. Relations

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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 must do some thinking and decide whether each rule is a function or a relation. Answers are not obvious, but answer sheet is included. The objective is to get kids thinking about the difference between a relation and a function.
Present and Future Value - Exponential Functions
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Present and Future Value - Exponential Functions

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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 present and future value as it applies to exponential functions.
Imaginary Numbers Bundle of 4 Worksheets
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Imaginary Numbers Bundle of 4 Worksheets

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This item is a bundle of 4 worksheets I sell on imaginary numbers. It contains activities on: 1.) Plotting Complex Numbers 2.) Multiplying Complex Numbers 3.) Dividing Complex Numbers 4.) Powers of i Each 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! Buy all 4 together and get a $2 discount!
Unit Circle Trigonometry
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Unit Circle Trigonometry

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In this activity, students must become familiar with the unit circle as they evaluate different trigonometric expressions (without using a calculator). Angles are given in radians. In the process, they match their answer to an answer bank and solve the joke "Why is it a bad idea to hang a funny picture on the wall?"
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.
Amplitude and Period in Periodic FUNctions v2
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Amplitude and Period in Periodic FUNctions v2

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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 these activities because they make 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 practice periodic functions and graphs by matching a given sine or cosine function to its graph by noting its amplitude, period and f(0).
Make 24 version 4
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Make 24 version 4

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In this game, groups of students compete to "make 24" as many times as possible. They are given 10 examples and must make 24 using all of the numbers and the basic operations. It is a great activity because it reinforces arithmetic while working on algebraic thinking. It is very appropriate for students of all different skill levels as well.
Properties of Logarithms
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Properties of Logarithms

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In this activity students use 3 properties of logarithms to simplify expressions involving base-2 logs. They match their result to an answer bank to find the answer to the joke "What is the cheapest thing you can buy from the dentist?"
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?"
Transformations and Parent Functions
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Transformations and Parent Functions

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In this activity, students take 4 parent functions and match a function with horizontal and vertical shifts, and reflections across x and y axes with a new graph. In the process, they find the answer to the joke "Why didn't the melons get married?"
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.
Labeling Opp, Adj, Hyp
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Labeling Opp, Adj, Hyp

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This is an introductory activity for trigonometry, and in it students work on labeling triangles correctly. It is a quick activity where students decide the appropriate label (O, A, H) and in the process answer a joke. Great for beginning SOHCAHTOA