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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.
Period of a Trig Function
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Period of a Trig Function

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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 take a sine or cosine function and identify its period.
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.
Properties of Logarithms ACT SAT Practice
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Properties of Logarithms ACT SAT Practice

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This worksheet includes 20 test prep, multiple choice questions, along with a teacher answer document. Each question had 5 choices and at least one trap answer. Questions start out Easy and become more difficult as the problem set progresses. Properties of logarithms and steps for solving equations are included.
Function Composition SAT ACT Prep
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Function Composition SAT ACT Prep

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These 10 multiple choice problems cover function composition using formulas, tables and graphs. They serve as excellent practice for the SAT, ACT or your state's standardized achievement exam. Each question has 5 choices, and at least 1 trap answer. A great way to differentiate this activity is to have higher skilled students identify each trap answer and justify.
Mayan Numbers
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Mayan Numbers

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This is a great activity for students to learn about number systems, exponents and Mayan numbers. The Mayans used a place value system, just like ours, except with base-20 instead of base 10 (they counted with their fingers and toes).
Exponential Growth and Rules of Exponents Bundle
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Exponential Growth and Rules of Exponents Bundle

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This bundle includes 4 joke/riddle worksheets dealing with the rules of exponents and exponential growth. It includes activities on: 1.) Exponential vs Linear Growth 2.) Solving Exponential Equations 3.) Present and Future Value 4.) Exponential Growth in Financial Accounts 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! Each worksheet costs $3 individually, buy all 4 together to receive a $2 discount!
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!
Inverse Functions - Graphs
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Inverse Functions - Graphs

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In this activity students must match the graph of a function to its inverse. In the process, they will find the answer to a joke - "What do you call a sleeping bull?"
Sequences and Series Packet
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Sequences and Series Packet

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In this packet of 9 worksheets, students practice with arithmetic and geometric sequences and series. The material begins with easier stuff but it evolves to material with more advance notation.
Unit Circle with Coterminal Angles
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Unit Circle with Coterminal Angles

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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 they make 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 must convert a non-standard angle (not between 0 and 360 degrees) to an angle in standard form and then use the unit circle to evaluate its sin, cos or tan.
Polynomial Long Division
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Polynomial Long Division

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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 polynomial division with no remainders.
Geometric Sequences and Series
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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. 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 geometric sequences and series by finding the nth term and finding the sum of n terms. The formulas needed are given.
Amplitude and Period in Periodic FUNctions v1
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Amplitude and Period in Periodic FUNctions v1

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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 explore periodic functions and their graphs by matching a sine or cosine graph to its function by noting its amplitude, period and f(0).
Law of Sines vs Cosines
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Law of Sines vs Cosines

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In this activity, students simply choose whether they would use the law of sines or cosines to "solve a triangle." In the process, they solve a joke "When do doctors get angry?"
Dividing Complex Numbers
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Dividing Complex Numbers

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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 divide complex or imaginary numbers and simplify the resulting expression.
SAT-Style Equations and Expressions
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SAT-Style Equations and Expressions

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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 students solve various equations that represent typical questions seen on logic and reasoning tests like the SAT, ACT, CST and College Math Placement Tests.
Pythagorean Identity Test Prep
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Pythagorean Identity Test Prep

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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.
Systems of Equations - Cutout Puzzle
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Systems of Equations - Cutout Puzzle

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This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. It is a cutout where students must match a system of equations to its solution and complete the puzzle. Once the puzzle is completed, a number on each tile is translated to the letter it represents in the alphabet (i.e. 1=A, 4=D etc.) to uncode a hidden message. Student and teacher versions are included. Also there is a difficult and easy version. Some systems should be solved using substitution, some should be solved using elimination.
Translations - Quadratic and Root Functions
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Translations - Quadratic and Root Functions

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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.
Basic Division Joke Worksheet
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Basic Division Joke Worksheet

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In this activity, students match a particular quotient to another 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. Because of answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults, this activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too!