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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.
Properties of Parallelograms
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Properties of Parallelograms

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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. Answer banks for students and answer sheets for adults make this resource excellent for homeschool and special ed students!
Midpoint Formula
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Midpoint Formula

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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.
Trigonometry Word Problems
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Trigonometry Word Problems

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These are some basic to moderate to challenging word problems with very nice diagrams. The diagrams serve as a support to students who have a difficult time visualizing trigonometry. With more practice like this, they will be able to draw their own problems. They are in multiple choice ACT or SAT prep style format. This activity requires NO PREP, answer sheets included. ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
Domain Restrictions (Advanced)
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Domain Restrictions (Advanced)

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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.
Function Composition - Advanced
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Function Composition - Advanced

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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. ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
Evaluating Functions - Equation, Table and Graph
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Evaluating Functions - Equation, Table and Graph

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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. ☻ ☻ ☻ ☻ ☻ ☻ ☻ ☻ ☻ ☻ 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.
Subtracting Fractions with a Common Denominator
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Subtracting Fractions with a Common Denominator

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This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. 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 FUNsheet, students must subtract each of the fractions and match their answers to the simplified fraction in the answer in order to solve a riddle. All FUNsheets are classroom-tested. 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. Also a great tool for home-schooled students too!
Checking Inverses with Function Composition
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Checking Inverses with Function Composition

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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. 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. ☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻
Summation and Definite Integral
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Summation and Definite Integral

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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. ☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻ ☻ 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.
Rationalizing the Denominator FUNsheet
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Rationalizing the Denominator FUNsheet

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This activity requires NO PREP, answer sheets included. ☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻ ☻ 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.
Fracciones - Operaciones Basicas
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Fracciones - Operaciones Basicas

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*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.) Enjoy and please remember to leave your feedback and rating!
Operaciones Basicas - Fracciones
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Operaciones Basicas - Fracciones

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*This resource is written entirely in Spanish. * Esta actividad no requiere preparación. Documentos para estudiantes e instructores estan incluidos. Con este documento estudiantes utilizan un banco de respuesta para resolver una broma. A ellos les gusta esta actividad por que hace la matemática significativa. A los maestros les gusta porque el banco de respuestas le da a los estudiantes una herramienta para autoevaluarse. Esta actividad también es ideal para la educación en casa y para estudiantes de educación especial. Incluye 15 preguntas que cuando contestadas, resulta en la respuesta a la broma: ¿CUÀL ES EL COLMO DE UN CÓCTEL? La tarea contiene ejercicios de fracciones para resolver operaciones básicas: suma, resta, multiplicación y división. Disfruta y por favor recuerdate a evaluarme.
Piecewise Functions
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Piecewise Functions

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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.
SOHCAHTOA - Finding Missing Sides
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SOHCAHTOA - Finding Missing Sides

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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?"
Unit Circle Mastery Trigonometry FUNsheet
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Unit Circle Mastery Trigonometry FUNsheet

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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.
Pythagorean Theorem Right Triangles FUN worksheet
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Pythagorean Theorem Right Triangles FUN worksheet

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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.
Two Step Equations
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Two Step Equations

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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 solve 2-step equations and in the process apply the order of operations to solve the joke. PLEASE REMEMBER TO RATE THIS FUNSHEET! ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
Evaluating Piecewise Functions
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Evaluating Piecewise Functions

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This activity requires 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, school and special education! In this activity, students use graphs of three different piecewise functions to evaluate them at different points! ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
Evaluating Piecewise Graphs
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Evaluating Piecewise Graphs

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This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. PLEASE REMEMBER TO RATE ME! 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 use graphs of three different piecewise functions to evaluate them at different points!
2-Step Equations
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2-Step Equations

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This activity requires NO PREP, student and teacher documents included. PLEASE REMEMBER TO RATE ME! 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 evaluate expressions and in the process apply the order of operations to solve the joke!