Description

Your fifth graders will be fully engaged with this challenging Valentine’s Day digital escape room. This is the perfect center for your 5th grade class party! Students will race to brew a love potion using a variety of standards-based math skills to solve puzzles. This escape room word best in pairs or small groups, but can also be completed by students individually. Your students will race to find a key by solving a multi-step word problem requiring multiplying and adding decimal numbers. Next, they’ll need to add ingredients to the potion in the correct order by sorting beakers with decimal numbers to the thousandths place in least to greatest order. They will need to balance the scales by subtracting fractions with unlike denominators, and figure out how many times to stir the pot by dividing by 2-digits. Evaluating expressions with parentheses using order of operations will lead students to find the tool needed to complete the love potion.

An internet-connected device and browser are required to complete this online Valentine’s Day activity. The entire breakout process is automated by a Google Form™ (Google™ accounts are NOT required). The form will prompt students with hints if incorrect answers are entered, and students will not progress to the next puzzle until they have successfully solved a puzzle. Best of all, there is virtually no prep for this activity! Simply click the quick start link & go, or those with Google™ accounts can choose to save a copy of the form to their own drives.

Included in this escape room:

• Solve a word problem involving multiplying a number with tenths by a whole number, then the product to a number to the hundredths place
• Ordering decimal numbers to the thousandths place
• Long division involving dividing four-digit numbers by two-digit numbers
• Subtracting fractions with unlike denominators and simplifying/reducing solutions (no mixed-numbers or regrouping are required)
• Evaluating expressions with parentheses using the correct order of operations
• Unscramble two words
• Hints are provided if incorrect answers are submitted.

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 unless students are logged into Google accounts, 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.

View all of our 5th grade math activities

See all of our Valentine’s Day escape room activities