Editable Summer Escape Room Game | End of the Year | First Grade Math Mystery

Get your students practicing essential math skills like pros with this fun Editable End of the Year Summer Math Mystery Escape Room Game. Featuring editable 8 math tasks, your students will have a blast completing challenges to find out which of their classmates is the ice cream thief!

 

Students will receive 3 clues after completing a certain number of tasks and will use their suspect list to determine who the thief is. This game features 9 first grade common core standards (SEE BELOW FOR EACH STANDARD). This is created for 1st grade, but the tasks are editable, so you can create your own tasks for your grade level.

 

What’s Included?

• banner
• 8 math tasks (editable in Powerpoint and Canva)
• task covers for folders or board
• student detective book to check off tasks when completed
• editable student name pieces
• editable suspect list
• editable introduction letter
• 3 clue pieces for board
• editable clue page
• 3 gift tags (bubbles, candy, bubble popper toy)
• answer keys for each task
• editable tasks to create your own questions

 

Tips:

• I like to reward students with ice cream after this game. You can get the small individual cups or you can go all out with an ice cream bar!
• I always choose a student I know will be okay with being the ice cream thief. If necessary, you may need to remind students at the end that it was only a game and the student didn’t really take the ice cream.
• I like to use the gift tags as gifts when students get a clue. This way, they get 3 fun end of the year gifts!

 

Why you and your students will love this resource:

★It is a a great way to practice essential math skills that have been taught throughout the year.

★Students are so excited to complete challenges to find who the ice cream thief is!

★It’s a fun and engaging way to end the year!

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Common Core Standards Covered:

• 1.OA.D.7

Understand the meaning of the equal sign, and determine if equations involving addition and subtraction are true or false.

• 1.OA.D.8

Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers.

• 1.NBT.A.1

Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.

• 1.NBT.B.3

Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits, recording the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, and <.

• 1.MD.B.3

Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

• 1.MD.C.4

Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.

• 1.MD.A.2

Express the length of an object as a whole number of length units, by laying multiple copies of a shorter object (the length unit) end to end; understand that the length measurement of an object is the number of same-size length units that span it with no gaps or overlaps.

• 1.G.A.2 (2D SHAPES)

Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circular cylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from the composite shape.

• 1.G.A.3

Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, fourths, and quarters, and use the phrases half of, fourth of, and quarter of.

 

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