Digital Math Escape Rooms

In this post you'll find no-prep digital math escape room activities that are fun for students and eliminate your need to grade! These self-checking digital math escape rooms are built in Google Forms with no outside links. The directions are simple -- enter a 4-letter code to advance to the next puzzle -- so students can focus all of their energy on their math. 

To meet the growing need for digital resources, I have spent the last couple years updating my printable math activities to also include digital versions (you can read more about those here) and making some digital-only math activities in Google Slides and Forms. One of the newest digital-only activities are digital math escape rooms.

Add & subtract integers digital math escape room

Digital Math Escape Rooms

Teachers are using digital math escape rooms as review, as classwork, as station activities, as concept reinforcement during summer school, as independent practice, and as fun activities after state testing. They can be assigned to individual students or worked on in pairs/groups. Digital math escape rooms are also nice paper-savers when students have access to technology.

Digital math escape rooms have been getting some great feedback from teachers and students:

"I've greatly enjoyed using escape room activities with students in the past and struggled with how to implement those types of activities virtually. This activity did a great job of merging the concepts and skills of parallel & perpendicular lines with the fun and intrigue of an escape room! " - Elizabeth J. 

"This was SOOO much fun to use with my students. They Loved everything about the escape room! Thank you!!" - Dani B.

"I like to spice up my teaching by offering my students a variety of math activities. Students are challenged with solving the math problems and they stay engaged. I time them to see who can unlock the locks first. Exciting!" - Leinani K.

"I love these activities and so do my students. We both love the self-checking factor: me because it actually requires my students to trouble shoot what they are doing incorrectly and gives them some motivation to figure out the solution; them because it is a 100 if they can escape and they enjoy the process of trying to breakout." - Kristin K.

This feedback made me so happy to read because it was exactly what I had hoped these digital math escape rooms would be-- engaging, easy to access for all students and timesavers for teachers.

Quadratic word problems digital math escape room

How do these digital math escape rooms work?

Each math escape room is built in Google Forms with no outside links. Everything is housed within the Google Form. This way you never have to worry that a link will be blocked or broken. 

Each escape room consists of 5 puzzles. In each puzzle there are 4 questions to answer. Once students answer the 4 questions, they find their answers in the answer choices grid. This will generate a 4-letter code. Entering that code into the answer box on the Form will unlock the lock. There are 5 locks to unlock in each escape room activity. Each escape room is set with response validation, giving students the instant feedback they love and eliminating your need to grade.

DIGITAL MATH ESCAPE ROOMS

Important note: You can still assign these digital escape rooms if you are not in a Google school. If your students do not have Google logins, but you do have access to your own Google Drive, you can still assign these digital math escape rooms to students. Students do not need to log into Google or even have Google accounts. As long as you can house the escape room on your own Google Drive, and Google is not blocked on student devices, you can send it to students no matter which learning platform your school uses. Directions for sending the escape room to students are within the escape room PDF file (the link to the digital escape room is also embedded within the PDF).

Finding slope digital math escape room

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Digital Math Escape Room Bundle

Digital math escape room bundle for middle school

"This is one of the greatest purchases I have ever bought from TpT" -Kristi T

"BEST BUNDLE EVER. My students say they LOVE the problems in these escapes. I have used many of the escapes this year, and I LOVE that they cannot submit the assignment until all of the questions are answered correctly. Thank you so much for making this resource!"  -Lori M. 

"I love these activities and so do my students. We both love the self-checking factor: me because it actually requires my students to trouble shoot what they are doing incorrectly and gives them some motivation to figure out the solution; them because it is a 100 if they can escape and they enjoy the process of trying to breakout." -Kristin K

If you teach middle school math, this digital math escape room bundle includes digital math escape rooms for integers, like terms, fractions, decimals, percents, the coordinate plane, expressions, exponents, GCF & LCM, mean, median, mode and range, area and circumference of circles, probability, angle pair relationships, ratios, slope, ordering rational numbers, 1-step equations, 1-step inequalities, 2-step equations, 2-step inequalities, unit rates, area, perimeter and volume, geometric transformations and composite figures. 

There are also escape room bundles available for algebra and geometry.

Angle pair relationships digital math escape room

Sending the escape room to students:

It's simple to send a digital math escape room to students. These directions are also inside each escape room's PDF: 

1) Once the escape room is in your Google Drive, open it and click the purple "send" in the upper right corner. A popup window will appear.

2) In the popup, click the link icon, copy this link and share the link with students. This is the only link students will need to complete the activity.

I hope your students enjoy the escape rooms! 

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