Math Escape Room - Decimals, Problem Solving & Crack the Code

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6th - 8th, Homeschool

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Math, Order of Operations, Decimals

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Activities, Games

Standards

CCSS6.NS.B.3

CCSS6.RP.A.3c

CCSSMP1

CCSSMP3

CCSSMP6

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29 pages

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If you’re looking for a fun way to have kids apply what they’ve learned at the end of the year, look no further! This engaging, team-building math escape room experience, steeped with problem-solving challenges designed to review multi-step equations, fractional parts of a whole number, and order of operations practice is just the ticket!

Whether it’s Back to School or End of Year, before or after holiday breaks, or anytime a review, brain break, or jump start is needed, this escape fits the bill.

Escape to Math Mountain requires kids to apply all their math knowledge as they make their way to the final challenge, a Crack the Code puzzle with a thought-provoking message. It’s a good, quick look into their knowledge of decimals.

This captivating ESCAPE adventure begins when YOU - the most awesome teacher in the history of the world- plan a field trip to Math Mountain. You've given your kids everything they need to make it to the top where you will be patiently waiting. As might be expected, they decide to take a "shortcut" and end up lost on Apex Peak. Not to worry. They meet Rimi, a funny little man who promises to show them the super-secret path that will point them in the right direction... Or, will he...

Your kids will have to use every last ounce of their math smarts to prove they are worthy of his help.

The comic book format sets up this exciting adventure where they complete a series of 4 challenges: puzzles adding & subtracting decimals, a maze with multi-step equations, a series of mystery numbers, and a math trivia challenge.

==========WHAT IS INCLUDED?==========

♦ At-a-glance instructions for EASY setup and organization.

♦ 4 tasks using the following math skills:

• Addition & subtraction of decimals

• Inverse operations

• Multi-step equations with a lot of mental math, exponents, square roots, fractional parts of a whole, percentages, and mean

• Decimal place value up to thousandths

• Ordering decimals

♦ Crack the Code puzzle that pulls it all together.

♦ Two takeaways that are useful well beyond the escape: Rimi's (Math) Reference Guide & Mt. Mike's Wilderness Survival Tips

♦ At-a-glance answers.

♦ Reflective exit slips.

♦ Awards to celebrate a successful escape.

==========WHAT DO I HAVE TO SUPPLY?==========

This Escape offers two identical files, one in color, and the other, in black and white.

All that is needed is a few folders, scissors, and possibly calculators (to be used ONLY as a last resort). Unlike other breakout activities, you don’t have to go out and buy expensive locks and boxes, because everything you need is included. Just print and go!

==========WHAT MAKES THIS SPECIAL?==========

The storyline is interactive and immersive. YOUR students are directly involved in the story. If used as a pre-assessment or review, it will provide you with a perfect opportunity to discern where everyone is in their understanding of these concepts. All of our escapes resources are great to use for teacher observation.

==========HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?==========

Completing the entire escape will take 50-60 minutes. Students will not have to leave the room. This is NOT a scavenger hunt.

Have fun and be sure to come back for more escape room challenges!

Thanks for stopping by! Pam Kranz

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Total Pages

29 pages

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Teaching Duration

1 hour

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to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).

CCSS6.NS.B.3

Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation.

CCSS6.RP.A.3c

Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent.

CCSSMP1

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution. They analyze givens, constraints, relationships, and goals. They make conjectures about the form and meaning of the solution and plan a solution pathway rather than simply jumping into a solution attempt. They consider analogous problems, and try special cases and simpler forms of the original problem in order to gain insight into its solution. They monitor and evaluate their progress and change course if necessary. Older students might, depending on the context of the problem, transform algebraic expressions or change the viewing window on their graphing calculator to get the information they need. Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends. Younger students might rely on using concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve a problem. Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, "Does this make sense?" They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches.

CCSSMP3

Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Mathematically proficient students understand and use stated assumptions, definitions, and previously established results in constructing arguments. They make conjectures and build a logical progression of statements to explore the truth of their conjectures. They are able to analyze situations by breaking them into cases, and can recognize and use counterexamples. They justify their conclusions, communicate them to others, and respond to the arguments of others. They reason inductively about data, making plausible arguments that take into account the context from which the data arose. Mathematically proficient students are also able to compare the effectiveness of two plausible arguments, distinguish correct logic or reasoning from that which is flawed, and-if there is a flaw in an argument-explain what it is. Elementary students can construct arguments using concrete referents such as objects, drawings, diagrams, and actions. Such arguments can make sense and be correct, even though they are not generalized or made formal until later grades. Later, students learn to determine domains to which an argument applies. Students at all grades can listen or read the arguments of others, decide whether they make sense, and ask useful questions to clarify or improve the arguments.

CCSSMP6

Attend to precision. Mathematically proficient students try to communicate precisely to others. They try to use clear definitions in discussion with others and in their own reasoning. They state the meaning of the symbols they choose, including using the equal sign consistently and appropriately. They are careful about specifying units of measure, and labeling axes to clarify the correspondence with quantities in a problem. They calculate accurately and efficiently, express numerical answers with a degree of precision appropriate for the problem context. In the elementary grades, students give carefully formulated explanations to each other. By the time they reach high school they have learned to examine claims and make explicit use of definitions.

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