Fraction Operations Math Escape Room Activity

This escape room style activity gives 5th and 6th grade students a collaborative way to review fraction operations. There are eight challenges, and students use fraction operation skills to find the code that opens each puzzle.

How it works

The challenges do not have to be completed in any particular order. To “escape”, students have to find all 8 codes. That is what makes this escape different, and it gives you three things:

• Differentiation
• The option to remove challenges for time
• The ability to make only one copy of each challenge, because as groups finish one challenge their next one can be whatever is available

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 PPT format)
• Group code sheet
• Student workbook
• Photos that show each challenge prepped
• End of escape signs and a sign template
• Prize ideas
• Answer keys

Skills covered

• Adding Fractions and Mixed Numbers with Unlike Denominators
• Subtracting Fractions and Mixed Numbers with Unlike Denominators
• Multiplying Fractions and Mixed Numbers
• Dividing Fractions and Mixed Numbers
• Adding and Subtracting Fractions and Mixed Numbers
• Multiplying and Dividing Fractions and Mixed Numbers
• Word Problems with All Operations with Fractions and Mixed Numbers
• All Operations with Fractions and Mixed Numbers

Materials needed

All you will need is a ruler and scissors.

You do not need to spend money on locks and boxes, although that option and links to materials are included. Manila folders or the included digital lock do the job.

Good to know

This escape room is not a complete review of every single skill related to fraction operations. Math escapes do focus on content, but the primary focus is on the collaboration and the problem solving.

Quick facts

• Topic: fraction operations
• Grades: 5–6
• CCSS: 5.NF.A.1, 5.NF.A.2, 5.NF.B.4, 6.NS.A.1
• Answer key: included
• Pages: 75

Bundles and related resources

This escape is part of the Math Escapes Membership.

More math escapes:

• Back to School Escape for Grades 5 – 8
• 5th Grade Math End of Year Escape Activity
• 6th Grade Math End of Year Escape Activity
• 7th Grade Math End of Year Escape Activity
• 8th Grade Math End of Year Escape Activity
• Fraction Operations Escape Activity
• Solving Basic Equations Escape Activity

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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