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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.
Solving Exponential Equations
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Solving Exponential Equations

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In this activity, students solve exponential equations and match their answers to an answer bank. In the process, the solve the joke "What did one wall say to the other?"
Absolute Value Transformations
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Absolute Value Transformations

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In this activity, students match an absolute value function to its graph. They practice vertical and horizontal shifts along with stretches and reflections and in the process find the solution to the joke "What is a butterfly's favorite subject?"
SOHCAHTOA - finding missing sides
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SOHCAHTOA - finding missing sides

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In this activity, students use basic trigonometry (SOHCAHTOA) to find the missing side of a right-triangle. In the process, the match their answers to an answer bank and find the punchline to the joke "How do you fire a math teacher?"
Quadratic Function Transformations
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Quadratic Function Transformations

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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?"
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.
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.
Labeling Opp, Adj, Hyp
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Labeling Opp, Adj, Hyp

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This is an introductory activity for trigonometry, and in it students work on labeling triangles correctly. It is a quick activity where students decide the appropriate label (O, A, H) and in the process answer a joke. Great for beginning SOHCAHTOA
Working with Radicals Packet
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Working with Radicals Packet

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This mini-packet includes 3 different joke/riddle worksheets that focus on the rules of radicals or square root operations. The worksheets progress from expanding radicals to simplifying radicals with only numbers to simplifying expressions involving variables. Each worksheet contains a joke/riddle and an answer bank for students to match their answers to in order to find the punchline.
Parametric Equations
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Parametric Equations

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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?"
Properties of Logarithms
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Properties of Logarithms

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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?"
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?"
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. ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
Function Composition
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Function Composition

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In this activity, students find a new function by composing one function into another function. They match the answer to an answer bank and in the process find the answer to the joke "What is Mozart doing right now?"
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?"
Pythagorean Theorem
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Pythagorean Theorem

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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 ("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. This activity is great for homeschool and special ed students too! In this fun worksheet, students use the pythagorean theorem (a squared plus b-squared equals c-squared) for right angle triangles to solve a riddle. They solve for hypotenuses and legs, and some are perfect squares and others are not.