Description
This 5th grade order of operations bundle combines two classroom-ready resources: a printable and digital escape room plus 24 print or Google Slides™ task cards. Students evaluate numerical expressions with parentheses and brackets, solve multi-step problems, and work through puzzles and ciphers without using exponents.
Order of Operations Task Cards
The Mini Math Missions task cards turn order of operations practice into short CSI mysteries, logic puzzles, and single-challenge escape tasks. Students evaluate expressions with positive whole numbers as they unlock vaults, prove their identities to undercover agents, and solve other story-based challenges.
Task card features
- 24 unique math mission task cards
- Black-and-white and color printable formats
- Digital Google Slides™ format
- Expressions with parentheses and brackets
- Positive whole numbers only
- No exponents
- Different levels of difficulty for practice, review, and enrichment
Operation Restore Order Escape Room
Agent Order of Operations Seven—0007—is trying to capture the mathematical villain Kay Oss. Students follow the mission while applying the four operations in the correct order, solving multi-step problems, placing parentheses to make equations true, and decoding substitution and Caesar Shift ciphers.
The escape room includes printable and digital options. The digital version runs in Google Forms™ and is self-checking, with no clues to hide and no student email accounts required.
Students will practice
- Using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in the correct order
- Evaluating numerical expressions with parentheses and brackets
- Solving multi-step word problems
- Placing parentheses strategically to make expressions true
- Reading carefully and using answers to decode ciphers
What is included?
- 24 task cards in printable and Google Slides™ formats
- Printable and Google Forms™ escape room options
- Mission letter and villain dossier
- Cipher directions and optional “Top Secret” folder decorations
- Quick-start guide, QR code, and activity link
- Answer keys, teacher tips, and optional success signs
Use these 5th grade order of operations activities for math centers, partner work, warm-ups, exit tickets, test review, early finishers, or enrichment. Please review the product previews to make sure the problem types and level are a good fit for your students.
