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Fundamental Theorem of Calculus Digital Escape


 I'm so excited for this digital activity. I am so tired of worksheets. Yuck! I feel like since we have been hybrid, my creativity has been lacking, so I spent all day creating something that could have been done within an hour for a worksheet. However, it was worth it! 

So, I always use slidesmania's templates. They are AWESOME! So, when I saw the building with the elevator template, I had to create an escape room. Thank goodness for slidesmania! She creates the best templates...and shares for free! I love it! 

While slidesmania did all of the hard work, it still took a long time to come up with the plan for my actiivty. I thought about it for a while. I finally came up with the idea of an escape room with different options which would take kids to a different room. They have to answer correctly to find the room with the key to get out of the apartment building. What took the longest you ask? Decorating the rooms...I used remove.bg to remove all of the backgrounds. That is my new favorite website! I use it for EVERYTHING!


For the activity, I made a Google Doc student sheet with instructions, the link to the escape room, and a table where students can type in the order. For the escape room, I created the link by erasing the edit in the URL and typing present. Then hyperlinked the new URL on the student sheet. The escape room links only work if you are in present mode! 

You can use this for any type of math problems, not just calculus! 

Here is the Google Doc 

Here is a copy of the Escape Room 

Here is the TE Google Doc


If you find any mistakes, let me know! Have fun! 

~RJ




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  1. Carolyn CunninghamDecember 8, 2023 at 9:50 AM

    Hi! I love this activity! I just had my students work through it today. It was great, except that one student answered incorrectly on 5.1, which led him to 9.1...so he actually got to the key room faster than he should have. Thanks for making these activities!

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