Description

When the gingerbread man traps your class in a bakery, can they use their 3rd grade math skills to escape? In this online breakout, students access a Google Form™ (no Google accounts or e-mail required) that automates the escape room process. This is a challenging escape room that will require students to use critical thinking skills to complete the puzzles. Digital escape rooms are a great worksheet alternative. This can be used in class or for distance learning/virtual academy settings. If you are looking for an easier escape room challenge, check out Escape the Snow Globe!

This escape room is easy to implement and is a great way to keep kids engaged during the busy holiday season! Capitalize on students’ excitement over Christmas, Hanukkah, or other winter holidays with a fun review of 3rd grade math skills. *This gingerbread themed escape room does not mention any specific holidays. Encourage collaboration and student engagement while working on multiplication, division, word problems, interpreting pictographs, and other third grade skills.

In order to complete the puzzles in this escape room, students must be able to:

• Estimate addition problems by rounding to the nearest 100
• Solve division word problems (within 100, single digit divisors, no remainders)
• Solve multiplication problems with arrays or other strategies
• Interpret a pictograph
• Solve multi-step word problems with multiple operations
• Figure out logic puzzles (hints provided)

This digital escape room will work on computers, tablets, even phones! The pdf includes a QR code and a URL to access the form, a “helper page” for students to work out some of the problems on, a detailed answer key, a link for experienced Forms users to save a copy of the Form to their own Google Drive, teacher tips, and more!

FAQ

• Do students need to have Gmail™ accounts? NO! Anyone with internet access and a tablet, computer, or even phone can complete the breakout.
• How long will this take? Most students will be able to complete this activity in under 45 minutes. You can allow 60 minutes to be safe. 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. Also, you can consider allowing students to make this a calculator active activity if you are concerned about time.
• 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.
• Do I have to hide clues? No! There are no clues to hide. Simply give the students a QR code to scan or a link to click, and everything is automated from there!

Escape rooms are a great way to review information, encourage collaboration, or provide enrichment all while having fun! They can be used in class or for remote & distance learning. Homeschoolers & math tutors also love online breakouts to make reviewing important skills fun!

We are always busy adding more standards-based digital escape rooms. See all of our third grade math-themed breakouts!