“You’ve woken up in an empty room. There’s nothing in it except for one door. There’s a keypad on the side of the door with a button that reads +3, and another that reads +7. There’s a larger screen over the door that reads 101. There’s nothing else in the room. How can you escape?”
Room Escape is a phenomenally compelling lesson structure that’s also endlessly adaptable and extendable. It’s simple to make easier and harder versions. Moreover, there’s a first layer of the problem that is usually quite accessible to students (how do you make the target number with the buttons?), that leads to a more mathematically subtle question (what are all the ways to make the target? How do you know you have them all?).
This lesson is featured in our supplemental curriculum. The specific lesson plans here are excerpts from that. Twenty-six pages in all!
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