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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.
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.
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!
Polydoku! Factoring Polynomials
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Polydoku! Factoring Polynomials

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This activity is a great way to introduction polynomial division and factoring. Students view a problem as a puzzle. Instructions are given on the sheet, answer sheet included.
Polynomial Upper Level Review Bundle
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Polynomial Upper Level Review Bundle

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This bundle includes 9 different items that review polynomial operations. It is NOT meant as a comprehensive unit on polynomials, but for an upper level math course, this has plenty of review materials and refreshers. It includes: 1.) Polynomial Graphs 2.) Factoring Trinomials (with a leading coefficient) 3.) Factor by grouping 4.) Polynomial Division 5.) Factoring Cutout 6.) Polydoku (factoring/division) 7.) Rational Expressions Cutout 8.) Sum/Difference of Cubes 9.) Polydoku challenges Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too!
Basic Addition Worksheet
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Basic Addition Worksheet

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In this activity, students match a particular sum to another sum with the same solution. As they find the matching answer, they place a letter from the answer bank into the appropriate box to uncover a joke. Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too!
Basic Subtraction Joke Worksheet
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Basic Subtraction Joke Worksheet

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In this activity, students match a particular difference to another difference with the same solution. As they find the matching answer, they place a letter from the answer bank into the appropriate box to uncover a joke. Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too!
Function Composition
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Function Composition

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In this activity, students find a new function by composing one function into another function. They match the answer to an answer bank and in the process find the answer to the joke "What is Mozart doing right now?"
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?"
Properties of Logarithms
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Properties of 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. Answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults make this resource excellent for homeschool and special ed students! Students use the 3 properties of logarithms to find equivalent expressions.
Parent Function Tranformations
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Parent Function Tranformations

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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 are given 4 parent functions (cubic, quadratic, absolute value, exponential) and 16 examples of different transformations in function form (i.e. f(x+2)= or -f(x)=) and asked to match each transformation to the graph. The material includes vertical and horizontal transformations as well as reflections across the x-axis and the y-axis. Students solve a riddle in the process.
Domain Restrictions
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Domain Restrictions

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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! On this riddle worksheet, students need to match the graph of a certain range of x-values to the function based on implicit domain restrictions. It practices restrictions from square roots and from denominators that can't equal zero and they solve a riddle of what do you call a bear with no teeth?
Finding Equation of a Line Between Points
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Finding Equation of a Line Between Points

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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 14 examples with 2 points on the x-y coordinate grid and they must find the equation of the line that passes through both points. In completing the worksheet, they solve the riddle - why did the belt get locked up? - because he held up a pair of pants. This is a great way to practice finding slope and y-intercept algebraically.
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.