5th Grade Back To School Math Activity Review of 4th Grade Skills Escape Room
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Kick off your school year with this engaging digital escape room perfect for fifth grade students to review fourth grade math skills. This is a fun math activity for the first day of school (or any time at the beginning of the school year) to act as an ice breaker while reviewing math standards.
When your students find themselves trapped on a deserted island, they will need to employ a variety of math skills in order to escape. Finding the area of rectangles when given the perimeter and a side length will give them a combination to open a backpack. Forming simple equivalent fractions will lead the way to a clue. A message will be found by using place value and rounding skills, and multi-step word problems will help students find their GPS location. Best of all, there is virtually no prep to this digital escape room! This 4th/5th grade math activity can be completed by anyone with an internet-connected device and a browser. There are no answers to check or clues to hide. The entire breakout process is automated by a Google Form™, but does NOT require Google™ accounts or e-mail addresses.
Use this escape room as a back to school activity for 5th graders. Putting students into small groups will allow collaboration and let students get to know each other as they review 4th grade math skills. This activity can also be assigned to students over the summer to keep math skills sharp between fourth and fifth grades, or used as a fun activity to celebrate the end-of-the-year for 4th grade.
In order to complete the challenges, students must be able to:
- Form simple equivalent fractions
- Find the area of a rectangle/square given the perimeter and a side length
- Solve multi-step word problems involving all four operations
- Express fractions with a denominator of 100 as a decimal
- Multiply two 2-digit numbers
- Divide three and four digit numbers by a single digit
- Perform multi-digit arithmethic
- Round numbers to the nearest 10, 100, and 1000
- Demonstrate place value understanding (the value of a 5 in the hundreds place is 500)
- Recognize patterns and figure out a term in a pattern
- Understand multiplicative comparison word problems
- Solve simple substitution problems
Included in the PDF
- Quickstart guide
- Link to Google Forms™ escape room
- Optional link to save a a copy of the form to your own Google Drive™
- Optional printable student recording page to work out puzzles on
- Answer Key
- Teacher Tips
- Optional Success Signs
FAQ
- Do students need to have Gmail™ accounts? NO! Anyone with internet access and a tablet, computer, or even phone can complete the breakout. The escape room is automated by a Google Form™, but does not require the teacher or students to have Google™ accounts.
- How long will this take? That is the hardest question as the answer varies depending on each classroom, student, or groups. Some students will be able to complete the activity in 30 minutes or less, others will take an hour. The form will only save student data if students are logged in to Google accounts, 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.
- 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.
- Can this be used for distance learning? Yes! Digital escape rooms are perfect for in-person, virtual, or hybrid models!
Digital escape rooms are great for providing engaging skills practice, reviewing for test prep, or having a quick plan for a sub. This activity encourages student engagement and cooperative learning. This 4th grade math review is a great ice breaker to use at the beginning of the year for 5th graders!
*Please note that this activity is not designed to be a comprehensive review of 4th grade math standards.
