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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.
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.
Evaluating Functions
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Evaluating Functions

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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 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.
Summation Notation and Sequences
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Summation Notation and Sequences

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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.
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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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?"
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.
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?"
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.
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!
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!
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.
Exponential Growth and Interest Rates
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Exponential Growth and Interest Rates

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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 are given 10 different financial scenarios and asked to find the interest rate necessary to produce each. In the process they solve the joke "What do you call a go-go dancing pig?" They build conceptual and technical skills around exponential growth and solving equations using roots.