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 use 3 properties of logarithms to simplify expressions involving base-2 logs. They match their result to an answer bank to find the answer to the joke "What is the cheapest thing you can buy from the dentist?"
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 arithmetic sequences and series by finding the nth term and finding the sum of n terms.
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 show their familiarity with the unit circle by finding expressions that match a given expression in value.
This is a great warmup exercise for the beginning of the school year. It is a riddle worksheet - Why did the M&M go to school? - where students must work with the standard PEMDAS operations and positive and negative integers to get the 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 these activities because they make 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 practice periodic functions and graphs by matching a given sine or cosine function to its graph by noting its amplitude, period and f(0).
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.
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?"
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?"
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.
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 home, school and special education!
In this worksheet, students evaluate different piecewise functions at different x-values.
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 match 12 3rd degree polynomials in standard form to their factored solution in this worksheet by factoring each by grouping the first 2 and last 2 terms. In the process, they solve the (potentially offensive) riddle - what do you call a fat psychic - A four chin teller. This is excellent practice for students who need to make sure they are doing this process correctly.
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.
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. 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 work with trigonometric ratios as they determine which quadrant and angle lies in and then determine what the angle is.
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 solve equations involving fractions, exponents and roots to solve the joke.
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.
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.
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?"
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?"
This packet includes 4 different activities involving parent functions and transformations. 1 activity deals only with absolute value functions and another with only quadratic functions, while 2 include 4 different parent functions. In each activity, they match answers to an answer bank to solve a riddle.
They 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!
I've also thrown in a set of 10 multiple choice questions as an added bonus.
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!
This is a worksheet for applying the properties of logarithms to simplify numeric expressions. All three properties are used to simplify these and it reinforces fractional exponents also. Tell them it is the funniest joke you have ever heard, then show them how to do numbers 1 and 6 and let them work on the rest.