On the night of the Baylor School Halloween Dance and party, everyone arrives in costume and brings their favorite Halloween treat bucket to collect goodies from the treat table.  They wait patiently outside the hall doors, readying themselves for the treat table raid. 

Mr. French, the principal, arrives outside the hall and slowly unlocks the gym doors, reminding everyone to be patient and wait in line to get to the table. As he pulls the doors open, the crowd surges toward the treat table. But then….everyone stops!

The treat table is EMPTY! The party is ruined… unless your students can solve the mystery and find all the loot!

Practice Multiplication and Division with a Halloween Escape Room!

Designed with third and fourth graders in mind, this Halloween escape room is the perfect addition to the end of your introductory or review lessons on multiplication and division. Students will progress through a series of clues/challenges in which they will solve problems to reveal clues. When applied to a logic-puzzle-style list of suspects, these clues will lead to the thief’s identification.

This Halloween escape room is ideal for rainy days, fun on Halloween, and an exciting way to help your students practice single-digit multiplication and division up to 12. Divide students into pairs or teams and provide each with a guidebook. Each guidebook contains five challenges that, when solved correctly, lead to the clues needed to eliminate suspects and locate the thief.

Whatever the reason, if you incorporate it in your lesson, students will develop their math and problem-solving skills by using teamwork.

Scaffolding Techniques for This Halloween Escape Room Game

Scaffold this Halloween escape room game for your students by

• Read the introduction and discuss the mission before beginning.
• Put students in teams of 3-4 students, ensuring that you have a stronger reader in the mix to assist with reading.
• Allow students to use a Multiplication chart as a reference during the game.

Two-Part Halloween-Themed Escape Room for Kids

This Two-Part Halloween-themed escape Room includes two components.

1. Interactive Google Slides Mission Slides – Students will use these slides to familiarize themselves with the mission and progress through the revelation of each clue.
2. Workbook—This printable component consists of five puzzle-style challenges for students to complete. The clues on these pages lead students to click the correct clue answer in the Google Slides file, allowing them to progress through the activity.

Use the dropdown arrow located on the Download button to choose both components of this activity. The Mission Slides only come in Google Slides, however, the student workbook comes in either an editable Google Slides format or easy-to-print PDF.

Remember, you must download both components in order for the activity to work correctly. Happy sleuthing!

This resource was created by Kaylyn Chupp, a teacher in Florida and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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Scare up even more Halloween fun with these great Halloween Math Escape Room activities. Make sure you check these out before you go!.

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