Use this additive and multiplicative operations escape room activity to help students apply strategies through an exciting market day challenge.
Additive and Multiplicative Operations Escape Room for Engaging Maths Practice
Developing confidence with operations is an important part of building mathematical fluency. Students need opportunities to apply addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in practical situations while developing problem-solving and reasoning skills.
This additive and multiplicative operations escape room challenges students to complete a series of maths tasks to save the market day. Along the way, students solve word problems, identify matching number sentences, complete missing number challenges and apply additive and multiplicative thinking in a variety of contexts.
The escape room aligns closely with real-world problem-solving by encouraging students to model practical situations, choose appropriate operations, connect problems to number sentences and explain their solutions. The interactive storyline keeps students engaged while reinforcing key number concepts.
Additive and Multiplicative Operations Activities That Build Problem-Solving Skills
These additive and multiplicative operations activities can be used in a variety of teaching contexts, including:
- Maths rotations – Add the escape room to a small-group station where students work together to solve clues and unlock codes.
- Lesson consolidation – Use the activity after explicit teaching to reinforce addition, subtraction, multiplication and division concepts.
- Extension challenges – Encourage students to apply multiple strategies and justify their thinking as they work through each challenge.
The game-based format promotes mathematical discussion, perseverance and flexible thinking while helping students connect operations to real-world situations.
Download This Additive and Multiplicative Operations Escape Room
This additive and multiplicative operations escape room includes an interactive Google Slides version and a PowerPoint presentation. A student workbook is also included, with both a ready-to-download PDF and a Google Slides version available.
Use the Download button to access your preferred file type. Please note that you will be prompted to make your own copy of the Google Slides files before editing or assigning them to students.
This resource was created by Alyssa Peterson, a TeachStarter collaborator.
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