4th Grade Math Digital Escape Room Boom Cards™ Valentine's Day Math Activity

Students race to solve problems using fourth grade math skills to complete the love potion and escape the potion-maker's lab! Find factors, determine whether numbers are prime or composite, create equivalent fractions, and solve multiplication and division problems to complete this online breakout! The love potion theme of this escape room makes this a perfect Valentine's Day activity, but this online breakout can be used any time of year!

The entire escape process is automated by Boom Cards™. There are no clues to hide or answers to check. The cards include audio and interactive features sure to keep students engaged while they review and practice standards-based math content. To use Boom Cards™, you must be connected to the Internet. Boom Cards™ play on modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge). Apps are available for modern Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. For security and privacy, adults must have a Boom Learning account to use and assign Boom Cards. You will be able to assign the Boom Cards you are buying with “Fast Pins,” (a form of play that gives instant feedback to students for self-grading Boom Cards). For assignment options that report student progress back to you, you will need to purchase a premium account. If you are new to Boom Learning, you will be offered a free trial of our premium account. Read here for details: http://bit.ly/BoomTrial.

Included in this escape room:

• Solve a word problem involving subtracting with five digits
• Find all of the factor pairs of six numbers under 100 and use this information to complete a challenge
• Solve two division problems involving a three-digit dividend and single-digit divisor
• Solve one multiplication problem involving two two-digit numbers
• Find the missing numerator or denominator to form equivalent fractions (three of these problems)
• Sort nine numbers under 100 by whether they are prime or composite numbers
• Unscramble two words

What is included in the PDF?

• Link to access the Boom Cards
• 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 the lab

FAQ

• 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 30-45 minutes. Requiring students to use the recording form will increase the amount of time required to complete the puzzles.
• Will students have to search the web to figure out the puzzles? NO! All of the information needed will be provided in the Boom Deck™. The math in this activity is all standards-based.

Escape rooms are great worksheet alternatives and provide a fun opportunity for collaboration, review, remediation, or enrichment.

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