Description
A saboteur has endangered the submarine, and your 7th graders must use rational-number skills to save it! Students follow the storyline while solving puzzles involving positive and negative integers, fractions, and decimals.
This digital escape room is automated and self-checking in Google Forms. There are no clues to hide, and students do not need Google accounts. Use it for practice, test review, enrichment, cooperative learning, or an engaging worksheet alternative aligned with 7.NS.A.1.
Rational-number skills students will practice
- Adding and subtracting positive and negative integers
- Adding and subtracting rational numbers, including simple fractions and decimals
- Using a number line to reason about sums and differences
- Determining the sign of a sum or difference
- Finding the distance between positive and negative numbers using absolute value
- Solving word problems involving positive and negative rational numbers
- Matching equivalent expressions and interpreting subtraction as adding the additive inverse
What is included
- Google Forms digital escape room
- Easy-to-follow directions
- Option to copy the form to your own Google Drive
- Detailed answer key, hints, and teacher tips
- Optional student recording page
- Optional success signs
Students may work independently or collaborate in small groups. Most finish in approximately 35–45 minutes, although some may finish in about 20 minutes. Requiring the recording page will increase the completion time.
All information needed is provided in the activity, so students do not have to search the web. Please confirm that your school or district allows Google Forms.
This resource is purchased through Teachers Pay Teachers. Use the Buy on TpT button above to view the complete listing and purchase options.
