Place Value and Rounding 4th Grade Math Escape Room + Task Cards Bundle

Place value and rounding with numbers up to the hundred-thousands becomes fun and engaging with this fall or Halloween themed digital escape room and spy-themed escape rooms style task cards designed for fourth graders. Encourage active learning and collaboration as your students think outside of the box to complete mathematical challenges.

Your fourth graders math skills are required to solve the case of "The Great Pumpkin Heist." Can your students use their knowledge of place value and rounding (4.NBT.A.1, 4.NBT.A.2, 4.NBT.A.3) to solve the puzzles and find the town's pumpkins?

This pumpkin-themed digital escape room is a perfect math activity to keep kids engaged with the distractions of Halloween and other fall activities. Teachers will love that this activity has little to no prep, no clues to hide, and is automated by a Google Form™! Students are not required to have e-mail addresses and you do not need to be a Google Classroom™ user to use this online breakout activity.

In order to complete the puzzles in this digital breakout, students need to be able to:

• Round numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand
• Compare the value of numbers written in standard form, expanded form, and written form
• Recognize how place value changes when a number is multiplied or divided by ten
• Recognize the value of a number in a given place (the value of the 4 in 643,997 is 40,000)
• Solve rounding challenges (what is the largest number that rounds to 5,000 when rounding to the nearest thousand)

What's included in the escape room PDF?

• Quickstart guide
• Detailed instructions & tips
• Printable case file (can also be projected) with QR code to access the Google Form™.
• URL to access the Google Form™.
• Detailed answer key
• Success signs to snap photos with after completing the activity (optional)
• Optional link for Google Drive™ users to create a copy of the form to save to their own drives in order to view student results. This option is great for distance learning or virtual teaching!

The Mini Math Missions task cards include brain teasers, logic puzzles, ciphers, and deductive reasoning. Each task card is designed to be like a single-puzzle of an escape room. The 24 unique spy-themed task cards are great to review place value and rounding skills throughout the school year.

Your students have been hired to work in the Mini Math Missions Department of the Mathematical Security Agency. Their job is to help field agents solve puzzles to assist them in their top secret missions. A wide variety of spy-themed challenges will have your students using their knowledge of rounding to find the getaway car, understanding the value of a digit will help students narrow down a list of suspects, and comparing numbers with up to six digits with <, >, and = symbols will help the field agents from getting discovered.

These challenging task card missions are perfect for bellringer/warm-up activities, exit tickets, centers, early finishers, or for enrichment and test review. The more challenging missions are great for giving students the chance to collaborate to solve puzzles. Keeping students engaged is also easy as each task card includes a unique mission. These math missions provide a balance of fun and rigor.

What math skills are used with the task cards?

• Forming the largest or smallest digit (up to six digit numbers)
• Identifying the place value of a digit up to the hundred-thousands place
• Rounding to any place (up to six digits)
• Recognizing that a digit in one place is worth 10 times the place to the right
• Recognize numbers in expanded form, written form, and standard form
• Form a number from place value blocks
• Compare numbers up to six digits, written in different forms, using <, >, and = symbols
• Combine all of these skills together to solve logic puzzles, deductive reasoning challenges, and more!

What is in the Mini Math Missions PDF?

• 24 half page task cards focusing on fourth grade math standards 4.NBT.A.1, 4.NBT.A.2, 4.NBT.A.3
• Printable versions in color & black and white
• Link to digital Google Slides™ version (requires students to have Google Drive™)
• Printable "Training Manual" with a glossary of spy vocabulary and directions for decoding ciphers and codes
• "Top Secret" file folder decorations
• Letter from the head of the Mathematics Security Agency, M.S.A, welcoming students to their new role in the agency
• Answer key

Please carefully view the previews for both products to see if these activities are the right fit for your class and students.

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