Pythagorean Theorem | Around the World in 20 Problems, Digital Escape Room

Do you want to make your middle school students practice the Pythagorean theorem and its converse in a fun and engaging way? Then try this Pythagorean Theorem Digital Escape Room: Around the World in 20 Problems!

This Pythagorean Theorem | Around the World in 20 Problems, Digital Escape Room is an interactive and immersive learning experience that will take your students to four different cities around the world: Sydney, St. Petersburg, London and San Francisco.

In each city, they will have to solve five problems related to the Pythagorean theorem.

Some problems will ask them to find the hypotenuse of a right triangle, and some will ask them to find the missing leg.

After solving all five problems in a city, they will get a link that will take them to the next city.

They will have to visit all four cities and solve all 20 problems to complete the escape room.

The best part is that this escape room is online and requires no prep from you.

You just have to provide your students with a link and they can access it from any device: laptop, tablet, or smartphone. They don't need any Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams logins either. They can work on it individually or in groups, at their own pace and convenience.

If they need to pause and resume later, they can do so by saving the address at the top of the page.

This Pythagorean Theorem | Around the World in 20 Problems, Digital Escape Room is a great way to review and reinforce this important math concept in a fun and engaging way.

Your students will love traveling around the world and solving problems with the Pythagorean theorem!

Pdf with:

Link to the activity

Printable version of the problems

Solutions

Common core standards:

CCSS 8.G.B.7