Combining Like Terms Digital Escape Room

Inside the case file

Lock the lesson and hand over a link. Your students step into an interactive escape room where every locked door hides a combining like terms challenge. Solve it, reveal the code, and work your way out before time runs out.

It's a no-prep, self-checking review game that runs in any browser — no apps, no logins, no printing. Just send the link and let them race the clock.

Quick details

• Grade levels: 6-8
• Format: Interactive, browser-based digital escape room
• Resource type: No-prep, self-checking review game
• Skill focus: Combining like terms
• Tech needed: Any device with a web browser

The mission

An agent's coded message is scrambled into messy algebraic expressions. Combine the like terms to simplify each one, reveal the codes, and unlock the safe house before the trail goes cold.

How the escape room works

• Open the private link — no app or login required.
• Work through a series of animated combining like terms challenges.
• Each correct answer reveals a code that unlocks the next room.
• Wrong answers won't open the lock, so the room checks itself.
• Crack the final code to escape and win.

What's included

• An interactive escape room hosted on a private site — animated, with randomized answers for replayability.
• No Boom Cards, Google Slides, logins, or subscriptions.
• A PDF containing your private access link to share via Google Classroom, email, or any LMS.

Skills covered

• Identifying like terms in algebraic expressions
• Combining like terms to simplify expressions
• Working with positive and negative coefficients

Best used for

Math centers, tech time, early finishers, sub plans, homeschool, test prep, review days, and distance learning.