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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.
Simplifying Radicals - Square Roots FUN sheet
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Simplifying Radicals - Square Roots FUN sheet

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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 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.
Sequences and Series Intro
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Sequences and Series Intro

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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, 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.
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?"
Imaginary Numbers on the Graph
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Imaginary Numbers on the Graph

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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 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.
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.
Sequences and Series and Summation Notation
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Sequences and Series and Summation Notation

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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 summation notation and how it is involved in arithmetic and geometric sequences and series.
Working with Radicals Packet
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Working with Radicals Packet

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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.
Absolute Value Transformations
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Absolute Value Transformations

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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?"
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?"
Summation Notation with Arithmetic and Geometric Series
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Summation Notation with Arithmetic and Geometric 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 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.
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.
Evaluating Logarithms
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Evaluating Logarithms

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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 evaluate basic logs with positive and negative answers.
Reciprocal Trigonometric Identities FUN Sheet
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Reciprocal Trigonometric Identities FUN Sheet

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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 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 practice reciprocal trigonometric identities to solve the riddle. They start out easier but get tricky quickly.
Expanding Radicals
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Expanding 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 worksheet, students learn the opposite process of simplifying radicals with 15 problems to answer the joke. I find that learning this opposite process pays dividends when the students start simplifying radicals.
Periodic FUNctions with Negative Leading Coefficients
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Periodic FUNctions with Negative Leading Coefficients

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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 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 match a sine or cosine graph to its function by noting amplitude, period and f(0).
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)
Identifying Quadrants - Trigonometry
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Identifying Quadrants - Trigonometry

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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 identifying which quadrant an angle is in given 2 of its trigonometric ratios. Great for unit circle practice and trigonometry!
Permutation ACT SAT Test Prep
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Permutation ACT SAT Test Prep

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These are 10 sample ACT/SAT questions that deal with counting techniques and permutations. Each question has 5 options with at least 1 trap answer. Great practice for the real test!