Integer Operations Escape Room

Forty integer problems — ten each in Sydney, St. Petersburg, London, and San Francisco — power a travel-themed escape room covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with negative numbers, in digital and printable form.

Year groups: Lower Secondary, Years 7–9
Pages: 40
File type: PDF
Answer key: Included

Updated Nov 29, 2024

Subject: Multiplication, Subtraction, Division, Multiplication and Division, Addition, Addition and Subtraction, Maths
Topic: Matemaths, Algebra
Resource types: Activities, Worksheets & Printables
Answer key: Included

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About this resource

Embark on an exciting adventure that takes your students on a pulse-pounding trip around the world while simultaneously mastering the operations with integers!

This interactive and engaging escape room activity is the perfect way to strengthen key skills in successfully solving dynamic problems involving both positive and negative numbers. The activity is specifically designed for a middle school student and is an innovative way to seamlessly integrate challenging maths practice with the excitement of adventure, ensuring that your students stay motivated and highly engaged from start to finish.

This resource is totally prep-free and ready to go! Just download and start using it in just 30 seconds.

Trip Around the World

In this interactive, virtual escape room experience, your students can have the chance to virtually "visit" and explore four iconic cities famous worldwide.

Sydney, Australia

St. Petersburg, Russia

London, England

San Francisco, USA

In this regard, students are to deal with and answer several integer operations problems presented to them for successful travel from one city to another. Problems under this section involve the four main operations of mathematics: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, involving both positive and negative numbers. The cities on the way will present the student with unique challenges so that learning does not become monotonous. In all, 40 carefully crafted problems ensure that every concept relating to integer operations is reviewed broadly and thoroughly.

Adaptable and Embracing Diversity

This activity is created to work on any device: laptop, tablet, or smartphone, to be used by all students. It also comes with a printable version, complete with task cards, worksheets, and detailed solutions for added flexibility.

How It Works

Through this, successful completion of maths problems assigned in each individual city rewards students with the link that unlocks and leads them to a new exciting destination. This innovative format of gamification not only fosters a strong sense of achievement among the student but also keeps them really enthusiastic and excited to keep on their enriching learning adventure.

Why You’ll Love It No prep required—perfect for the busy teacher! Very engaging and exciting for those students who are game enthusiasts as well as challenge takers. Reinforces key maths skills in a way that's relevant and powerful.

Make maths class unforgettable with this done-for-you escape room. Whether in-person or virtual, it's the perfect addition to your teaching toolbox.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Add and subtract integers, including negative results (e.g., −6 − 15, 35 − 38)
Multiply positive and negative integers and apply sign rules (e.g., −18 · −3 = 54)
Divide integers with signed dividends and divisors (e.g., −56 ÷ (−7) = 8)
Maintain accuracy across a sustained forty-problem game sequence

Teaching tips

Send students the digital link from the access page for device-based play, or print the four city worksheets for an offline version of the same forty problems
The cities are sequenced by operation — addition/subtraction first, division last — so they can double as a differentiated progression for stations
Keep the solutions page on hand to check work between cities so wrong answers are caught before students 'travel' on
Ten problems per city keeps groups moving; pair students for the multiplication and division cities if sign rules are fresh

Skills covered

Integer addition and subtraction — Sydney's ten problems mix signs and magnitudes, from 3 − 6 to −18 + 8.
Integer multiplication — St. Petersburg's ten products require the sign rules, including negative-times-negative cases.
Integer division — San Francisco's ten quotients divide signed numbers such as −144 ÷ −12 and 60 ÷ (−5).
Sustained fluency under game conditions — forty problems must be solved correctly to progress city to city.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How is each city's problem set different?

Each city isolates part of the skill: Sydney is addition and subtraction of signed numbers, St. Petersburg is multiplication, London continues the sequence, and San Francisco is division — ten problems per city, forty in all.

Can the escape room run without devices?

Yes — the same forty problems ship as printable city worksheets with name and class lines, plus a full solutions page, so the activity works on paper as well as through the digital link.