Description
Give students three very different missions—and meaningful practice across the fifth-grade decimal standards. This digital escape room bundle combines place value and rounding, adding and subtracting decimals, and multiplying and dividing decimals in story-driven challenges filled with puzzles, clues, codes, and ciphers.
These are real escape-room activities built around connected missions, not ordinary decimal worksheets with a game label. Students must calculate carefully, interpret clues, and keep trying when an answer does not unlock the next part of the story.
Three Decimal Escape Room Missions
Capture the Decimal Deceiver
A mathematical criminal is on the loose, and students must use decimal place value, rounding, and operations to help the Mathematical Security Agency capture him.
Students will:
- Recognize that a digit represents ten times the value of the place to its right and one-tenth the value of the place to its left
- Write decimals in standard and expanded form
- Compare decimals using <, >, and =
- Round decimals through the thousandths place
- Multiply decimals by powers of ten
- Multiply a decimal through the hundredths by a one-digit whole number
- Calculate change by subtracting decimals
Escape the Library
Students solve puzzles and ciphers while adding and subtracting multi-digit decimals to escape from the library.
Students will:
- Add and subtract decimals through the hundredths place
- Regroup and subtract across zeros
- Round decimals to the nearest whole number
- Compare and order decimals through the hundredths place
- Solve decimal addition and subtraction word problems
Recover the Stolen Painting
A priceless painting has disappeared. Students work through a sequence of multiplication and division challenges to recover it.
Students will:
- Multiply decimals through the hundredths by whole numbers and other decimals
- Complete multi-digit decimal multiplication
- Divide decimals by whole numbers and decimal divisors
- Complete long division with two-digit decimal divisors
Please preview the multiplication and division examples before purchasing. This mission includes challenging problems such as 37.5 × 85.6 and 64.32 ÷ 1.2, so it may also be useful for sixth-grade review or enrichment.
Easy Digital Setup
All three missions run through Google Forms™ and are self-checking. Students enter answers directly into the activity and must solve each challenge correctly before progressing. There are no physical locks to prepare and no clues to hide.
Students do not need Gmail™ or Google™ accounts. They only need an internet-connected computer, tablet, or phone with access to Google Forms™. An optional copy link is included for schools that require forms to originate inside their own Google Drive™ system.
What Is Included?
- Quick-start guides with links to all three digital escape rooms
- Optional Google Drive™ copy links
- Answer keys and teacher tips
- Optional success signs
- Printable recording page for the adding and subtracting decimals mission
- Color and black-and-white printable versions of the multiplying and dividing decimals mission
The place value and rounding mission and the adding and subtracting mission are primarily digital. Only the multiplying and dividing decimals escape room includes a complete printable version.
Classroom Uses
- Decimal unit review
- Math centers and stations
- Partner or small-group problem solving
- Enrichment and early finishers
- Test preparation
- Homeschool math
- Tutoring and intervention
- In-person, virtual, or hybrid learning
Students with a firm grasp of the concepts may complete a mission in about 20–30 minutes, but allowing up to 60 minutes for each escape room gives students time to discuss, revise, and work through difficult clues.
Standards and Grade Levels
The bundle is designed around fifth-grade Numbers and Operations in Base Ten standards, including CCSS 5.NBT.A.1, 5.NBT.A.2, 5.NBT.A.3, 5.NBT.A.4, and 5.NBT.B.7. The advanced multiplication and division problems also support review of CCSS 6.NS.B.3.
Good to Know
- Three digital Google Forms™ escape rooms are included
- Google accounts are not required
- The digital missions are self-checking
- Students do not need to search the web
- Answer keys are included
- Check that your school or district allows access to Google Forms™
The purchase button on this page takes you to the complete bundle in The Great Classroom Escape store on Teachers Pay Teachers.
