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.
These activities require NO PREP. Student and teacher documents included.
It is a riddle worksheet in which students use an answer bank to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. They 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 the answer bank for students and answer sheet for teachers, this activity is great for home-schooled and special education students too!
This activity is a good introduction to functions and the idea of domain and range. To complete the worksheet, students must what a reasonable domain and range would be to a given function.
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!
In this activity, students visualize adding fractions with no common denominator by matching a problem to a visual representation. This is a great introduction to the conceptual side of adding fractions.
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 activity because it makes the math meaningful and FUN. Teachers like it because the answer bank gives students a tool to self-assess.
Students must find the inverse function for 17 different functions, including linear, quadratic, cubic, root, cube root, exponential and logarithmic functions. They compute the inverse algebraically and then find the matching answer to solve a riddle.
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
This activity requires NO PREP, answer sheets included.
Please rate this activity!
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
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.
In this particular worksheet, students learn about summation notation and how it is involved in arithmetic and geometric sequences and series.
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?"
In these activities, students match a particular sum/difference/product/quotient to another sum/difference/product/quotient 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.
It consists of 4 activities - 1 for each of the basic operations. Buy all 4 together and save $2!
Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too!
his activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO RATE ME!
Check out the preview file
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 multiply fractions and simplify the result to answer the joke!
This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO RATE ME!
Check out the preview file
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 take an improper fraction and match it to its corresponding mixed number to solve the riddle. Great beginning of the year practice!
This activity requires NO PREP. Student and teacher documents included. Check out the preview file.
It is a riddle worksheet in which students use an answer bank to solve a (slightly cheesy) joke. They 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 the answer bank for students and answer sheet for teachers, this activity is great for home, school and special education!
In this activity, students add fractions by finding a common denominator and simplify the result to answer the joke.
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
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.
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!
It reinforces the properties of logarithms with a base of 5.
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 multiply complex numbers and find the solution from an answer bank to solve a riddle.
This activity requires NO PREP, answer sheets 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 use inverse trig to find missing angles.
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 simplify complex numbers by using the powers of i and multiplying and dividing complex numbers. Great practice towards the end of an imaginary numbers 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 worksheet, students must convert an angle to standard form in degrees and then find its equivalent angle in radians. Great way to practice Trigonometry.
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 match each table to either a linear or exponential function that generated the data. It is wise for them to notice first if the rate of change is a constant amount (linear) or a constant percentage (exponential) before they look for the actual function.
Students are given a puzzle to solve by factoring third degree polynomials. The puzzle includes 12 problems to factor by grouping and 12 to factor by guess and test or polynomial long division. Students cut the pieces out and then match up each equation with its solution set. The puzzle fits together and then spells out "Math Is Wicked Cool" when you replace each larger number with its corresponding letter in the alphabet.
This bundle includes 4 different joke/riddle activities that review solving equations (with more advanced operations like roots and exponents). As a BONUS, I decided to throw two worksheets totally free! The bundle includes:
1.) SAT style Equations
2.) Ratios, more SAT style Equations
3.) Solving Equations with Advanced Operations
4.) Solving more equations with Advanced Operations
5.) Finding the Equation of a Line between 2 Points
6.) Systems of Equations Cutout Puzzle
The first 5 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!
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 ("Why did the duck get sent to the principal’s office?")
Young people 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.
This activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too!
In this fun worksheet, students use the pythagorean theorem (a squared plus b-squared equals c-squared) for right angle triangles to solve a riddle. They solve for hypotenuses and legs, and some are perfect squares and others are not.
