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.
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!
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 resource is written entirely in Spanish.*
It requires no preparation. Teacher and student documents are included.
In this resource, students use an answer bank to solve a joke. They enjoy the activity because it give meaning to the math. Teachers also enjoy it because the answer bank gives students a way to self-evaluate without intervention.
This activity is also ideal for home school and students with special needs.
It includes 15 questions, that when answered correctly, result in the answer to the joke.
This activity contains exercises to master fractions and basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.)
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This activity requires NO PREP. Student and teacher documents included.
It is a riddle worksheet. Students have an answer bank and they use that 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 self-assessment tool.
Because of the student answer bank and answer sheet for adults, this activity is great for home-schooled and special education students too!
In this riddle worksheet, students need find the implicit domain restriction on functions with quadratic expressions inside square roots. Great practice for domain and interval notation.
This activity requires NO PREP, answer sheets included.
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This 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 students! Great for warm-ups, great for use for a substitute teacher.
In this worksheet, students eliminate a radical from the denominator of a fraction. They practice square roots and simplifying fractions in some pre-algebra that is important for upper level math courses.
In this riddle worksheet, students need to evaluate 3 functions. One is a table, one is a graph, one is an equation.
This activity requires NO PREP, answer sheets included.
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This 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 students with special needs. Great for warm-ups, great for use with a substitute.
These activities require 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 self-assessment tool.
Great practice for calculus and the chain rule!
This worksheet consists of 4 given functions and students must match a new function to how it was composed from those given functions. Great practice for the chain rule in Calculus too.
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In this activity, students must find the definite integral that is equivalent to each summation expression as n approaches infinity. It is great prep for the AP Calculus exam, where these questions frequently come up and students often lack practice for it.
This activity requires NO PREP, answer sheets included.
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This 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 students with special needs. Great for warm-ups, great for use with a substitute.
This 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 students with special needs. Great for warm-ups, great for use with a substitute.
In this riddle worksheet, students check if two given functions are inverses by plugging one into the other and checking if they cancel to x or if f(g(x)) = x = g(f(x)).
This activity requires NO PREP, answer sheets included.
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This worksheet is great practice for vertical and horizontal shifts, along with rotations about points for quadratic functions. The multiple choice handout is perfect for ACT, SAT or State Achievement Test preparation. Each question includes 10 questions, each coming with at least 1 trap answer. A great way to differentiate this activity is to have higher skilled students identify and justify each trap answer.
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!
In this activity, students become familiar with the unit circle as they evaluate different trigonometric expressions (without using a calculator) in order to solve a riddle.
Students 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?”
Angles are given in radians.
These 10 Multiple Choice questions cover volume of cubes, cones, spheres and other 3D shapes. Each question contains a graphic, which helps students picture the problem better. The answer sheet has a key that tells the teacher the answer to each question, the most common trap answer and the level of difficulty for each question.
This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included.
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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!
In this activity, students must find the midpoint given a pair of coordinates. With the solution, they find the answer to a joke or riddle. The instructor answer key is included.
These are 40 basic to moderate to challenging test prep problems for pythagorean identities (trigonometric).
The packet is separated into 4 different sets of 10 questions, each with the answers provided.
They are in multiple choice ACT or SAT prep style format.
Answer sheets included.
This activity requires NO PREPARATION. Student and teacher documents included.
It is a riddle worksheet where students have an answer bank and they use that to solve a (slightly silly) riddle ("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.
In this particular worksheet, students use the Pythagorean theorem (a squared plus b-squared equals c-squared) to solve a riddle. They solve for hypotenuses and legs, and some are perfect squares and others are not.
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?"
This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included.
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.