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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.
Unit Circle and Quadrants
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Unit Circle and Quadrants

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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. 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.
Solving Equations (Advanced)
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Solving Equations (Advanced)

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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 solve equations involving fractions, exponents and roots to solve the joke.
Simplifying Radicals - Square Roots FUN sheet
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Simplifying Radicals - Square Roots FUN sheet

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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 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 simplify 16 different square root radicals to answer the joke.
Sequences and Series Intro
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Sequences and Series Intro

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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 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! This is a simple activity I used to introduce arithmetic and geometric sequences and series. The activity could be used for students of all grade levels because it really only requires pattern recognition. Students are given the first 3 numbers of a pattern and asked to find the next three. They solve the joke: “How do you make holy water?” NOTE there are 2 versions - one with the word hell and one with the word heck, you can decide which is the most appropriate for your needs.
Summation Notation with Arithmetic and Geometric Series
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Summation Notation with Arithmetic and Geometric 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 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 particular worksheet, students learn about summation notation and how it relates to arithmetic and geometric series.
Reciprocal Trigonometric Identities FUN Sheet
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Reciprocal Trigonometric Identities FUN Sheet

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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 practice reciprocal trigonometric identities to solve the riddle. They start out easier but get tricky quickly.
Functions vs. Relations
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Functions vs. Relations

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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 must do some thinking and decide whether each rule is a function or a relation. Answers are not obvious, but answer sheet is included. The objective is to get kids thinking about the difference between a relation and a function.
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.
Adding Fractions with Pictures (and a Common Denominator)
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Adding Fractions with Pictures (and a Common Denominator)

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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 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.
Inverse Functions - Algebra
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Inverse Functions - Algebra

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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 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. ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
Sequences and Series with Summation Notation
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Sequences and Series with Summation Notation

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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.
Shaded Area SAT ACT Questions
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Shaded Area SAT ACT Questions

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This activity has 10 test prep questions that deal with finding shaded area, plane and coordinate geometry. The questions are written for an ACT exam but also serve as excellent preparation for CST and Star testing. Each question has 5 choices and at least 1 trap answer, and the teacher answer sheet has a key that gives each question’s difficulty level, correct answer, trap answer and the rationale for the trap answer.
Imaginary Numbers on the Graph
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Imaginary Numbers on the Graph

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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 must match a complex number to a graph to solve a joke.
Periodic FUNctions with Negative Leading Coefficients
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Periodic FUNctions with Negative Leading Coefficients

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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 match a sine or cosine graph to its function by noting amplitude, period and f(0).
Permutation ACT SAT Test Prep
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Permutation ACT SAT Test Prep

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These are 10 sample ACT/SAT questions that deal with counting techniques and permutations. Each question has 5 options with at least 1 trap answer. Great practice for the real test!
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.
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).
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.
Factoring Polynomials Cutout Puzzle
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Factoring Polynomials Cutout Puzzle

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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.