Turn your next maths lesson into a high-stakes mission with this immersive Year 5 Escape Room. Designed to challenge mathematical fluency, teamwork, and problem-solving, this resource pack places your students at the heart of a technical emergency.
The Mission
Students work in engineering teams to crack 10 “Technical Riddles” across different zones of the lab—from the Power Core to the Alloy Vats. Each riddle solved provides one digit of the 10-digit Shutdown Key required to bypass the Unit 7 firewall and save the facility’s data.
What’s Included in the Download?
Immersive Presentation (PPTX): A visually stunning 14-slide deck that sets the scene, provides the timer, and features a “Mainframe Terminal” for the final code entry.
Pupil Worksheet Pack (DOCX): A detailed 10-lock workbook for students to record their working out and log their code digits.
Teacher’s Deactivation Key: A comprehensive answer key for every calculation, including the final 10-digit master code (7-4-5-2-2-6-6-6-2-2).
Self-Assessment & Record Sheets: Tools for teams to track their progress and reflect on the difficulty of each topic.
Curriculum Coverage (Year 5 Objectives)
Every “Lock” is mapped to a specific area of the Year 5 National Curriculum:
Warehouse: Addition & Subtraction (Large Numbers)
Data Screen: Rounding to the nearest 1,000 & Place Value
Testing Zone: Area of Rectilinear Shapes
Battery Room: Multi-step Multiplication & Addition
Power Core: Fractions of Amounts
Control Room: Time Intervals (24-hour clock)
Parts Store: Money & Decimals (Change calculations)
Alloy Vats: Introduction to Ratio & Scaling
Storage Room: Short Division
Server Rooms: Perimeter (Difference between shapes)
Why Choose This Resource?
High Engagement: The “ticking clock” and sci-fi narrative keep students focused and motivated to complete complex calculations.
Zero-Prep for Teachers: Simply print the worksheets and play the slides. No physical locks or boxes are required.
Versatile Design: Perfect for an end-of-term treat, a SATs revision session, or a “Maths Week” special event.
Teamwork Focused: Encourages students to communicate and cross-check calculations to ensure they don’t get the wrong digit for the final code.
Master Engineers, the countdown has started. Are your students ready to contain Unit 7?
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