Description

Can your fourth graders use their math skills to finish brewing the love potion to break out of the lab? Finding factors of numbers under 100 and creating equivalent fractions are just two of the skills your students will use to finish the potion and escape the lab. This escape room is easy to implement with no clues to hide, and it is completely self-checking! The entire breakout process is automated by a Google Form™ (does NOT require Google Accounts™ or e-mail). This escape room can be used any time of year for virtual learning or in-person school. The magical them of completing brewing a love potion makes this a great way to keep students engaged around Valentine’s Day with standards-based math activity.

Included in this escape room:

• Solve a word problem involving subtracting with five digits
• Find all of the factor pairs of six numbers under 100 and use this information to complete a challenge
• Solve two division problems involving a three-digit dividend and single-digit divisor
• Solve one multiplication problem involving two two-digit numbers
• Find the missing numerator or denominator to form equivalent fractions (three of these problems)
• Sort nine numbers under 100 by whether they are prime or composite numbers
• Unscramble two words

What is included in the PDF?

• Link to access the Google Form™
• Optional link to save a copy of the form to your own drive
• Answer Key & Teacher Tips
• Optional recording page for students to show their equations and visual models
• Optional success signs to snap a photo with to celebrate escaping

FAQ

• Do students need to have Gmail™ accounts? NO! Anyone with internet access and a tablet, computer, or even phone can complete the breakout. The escape room is automated by a Google Form™, but does not require the teacher or students to have Google™ accounts.
• How long will this take? That is the hardest question as the answer varies depending on each classroom, student, or group. Some students with a firm grasp on the concepts covered in this escape room will be able to complete the challenge very quickly (20 minutes), others will take longer. The majority of students will take between 35-55 minutes. Requiring students to use the recording form will increase the amount of time required to complete the puzzles. The form will not save student data, so if you are worried about your students not finishing on time, simply have them write their answers on scratch paper. They can then come back and quickly re-enter their answers and pick up where they left off.
• Will students have to search the web to figure out the puzzles? NO! All of the information needed will be provided in the Google Form™. The math in this activity is all standards-based.

Escape rooms are fantastic for encouraging collaboration and promoting student engagement. This worksheet alternative can be used for enrichment, review, remediation, or extra practice before testing.

This escape room is also available as Boom Cards™

See all of our 4th grade math activities