7th Grade Ratios and Proportional Reasoning Escape Room Activity

Eight challenges make up this escape room style review of 7th grade ratios and proportional reasoning standards. Students collaborate and solve basic equations to find the codes that open each puzzle.

How it works

What makes this escape activity different is that the challenges do not need to be completed in any particular order. To “escape,” students only have to find all 8 codes.

That lets you (a) differentiate, (b) remove challenges for time and (c) make only one copy of each challenge, because as groups finish one challenge their next one can be whatever is available.

Skills covered

• Calculating Unit Rate (with fractions and decimals)
• Percent Change
• Simple Interest
• Percent of a Number (including finding the part and the whole)
• Unit Rate from Tables, Equations, Verbal Descriptions and Graphs
• Tax, Tips, Discounts and Commission
• Solving Proportions

What’s included

• CCSS and TEKS standard alignment
• Four pages of escape directions
• A digital lock option
• Links to locks and boxes to purchase
• Detailed puzzle teacher information
• 8 challenges with prep instructions and materials
• Hint cards for each challenge (PDF format and editable PowerPoint format)
• Group code sheet
• Student workbook
• Photos that show each challenge prepped
• End of escape signs and a sign template
• Prize ideas
• Answer keys

Materials needed

Locks and boxes are optional. That option and links to materials are included, but you do not need to spend money on them. Manila folders or the included digital lock work in their place.

Beyond that, all you will need is scissors, a ruler, fastening brads and a small mirror.

Good to know

• This resource is not a complete review of this set of standards. Math escapes do focus on content, but the primary focus is on the collaboration and the problem solving.
• The puzzles are identical to those in my 6th Grade Ratios and Proportions Escape to allow for differentiation. Some codes are not the same.

Quick facts

• Topic: 7th grade ratios and proportional reasoning review
• Grade: 7
• CCSS: 6.EE.B.7, 7.EE.B.4a
• Answer key: included

Bundles and related resources

This escape is part of the Math Escapes Bundle. The rest of my math escapes are listed under all math escape rooms in the store.

Free resources

Get my free Warm Up Slides templates.

Terms of use

By purchasing this product, you own a license for one teacher only for personal use in their own classroom. Licenses are non-transferable and therefore can not be passed from one teacher to another. If the teacher who purchased this license leaves the classroom or changes schools, the license and materials leave with that teacher. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire team, grade level, school or district without purchasing the correct number of licenses. If you are a coach, principal or district interested in transferable licenses that would accommodate yearly staff changes, please contact me for a transferable license quote at lindsay@beyondtheworksheet.com.

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