Beginning of the Year 6th Grade Math Activity to Review 5th Grade Math Skills
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It's hard to keep students engaged before holidays and vacations. These digital breakouts for sixth grade math skills keep kids focused reviewing important math standards. Best of all, they are easy for teachers to implement! All of these online escape rooms are automated by a Google Form™. There aPrice $23.56Original Price $29.45Save $5.89
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Get your 6th graders engaged with this fun back to school math activity which covers several 5th grade math standards. This digital escape room is perfect for your sixth graders to review math and get to know each other during the first week of school. Encourage collaboration as your students use their math skills to escape the desserted island. The math in this escape room is not designed to be super challenging. This escape room is meant for a fun icebreaker to allow for cooperative learning and review. This activity is also great for summer review for rising 6th graders or for an end-of-the-year activity for 5th grade math students.
This online activity can be completed by anyone with an internet connected device and a browser. It requires virtually no preparation! The entire breakout process is automated by a Google Form™ (Google™ accounts are NOT required). There are no clues to hide or answers to check.
Your students have spent summer vacation on a deserted island doing scientific research. They find themselves stranded and must follow clues to escape and return home. Finding the volume of rectangular prisms will provide the combination to a lock. Adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators will guide the way. A message will be revealed by identifying points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane. GPS coordinates can be found by solving word problems requiring operations with decimals, division by a 2-digit divisor, and evaluating expressions with brackets and braces using order of operations.
Skills required to complete the puzzles:
- Find the volume of rectangular prisms by using the volume formula (whole number side lengths)
- Count unit cubes to find volume of a solid figure
- Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators (this is kept simple; no regrouping is required and no mixed-numbers or improper fractions are used)
- Perform operations with decimals (multiplication and subtraction with decimals to the hundredths place
- Identify points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane
- Solve tricky equations with brackets and braces requiring knowledge of order of operations. Example: 5×(6+20÷4)-9×5
- Complete simple substitution ciphers
What is included in the PDF?
- Easy to follow instructions
- Details for implementing this product for remote/distance learning (including the option to save a copy of the Google Form™ to your own drive
- Detailed answer key
- Teacher Tips
- Optional recording page for students to show their work, write equations, and work out some of the puzzles.
- Optional success signs to snap a photo with to celebrate saving the submarine!
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 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 between 35-45 minutes. Requiring students to use the recording form will increase the amount of time required to complete the puzzles. 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.
- 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.
Escape rooms are a great way to provide extra practice for students, review for tests, or provide enrichment. This back to school activity is a perfect icebreaker to kick off your school year and get students excited about learning.
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