Distributive Property with Combining Like Terms Digital Escape Room

Inside the case file

Lock the lesson and hand over a link. This animated, self-checking digital escape room turns distributive property and combining like terms practice into a high-stakes spy training mission your students will race to finish.

No printing, no logins, no prep. Just send the private link and let your recruits simplify their way out.

Quick details

• Grade levels: 7–9
• Format: interactive, browser-based escape room
• Resource type: no-prep digital review game
• Skill focus: distributing across parentheses and then combining like terms to simplify expressions
• Tech needed: any device with a web browser

The mission

Your recruits are deep in spy training, leaping into a high-altitude skydiving exercise. To land safely and pass the course, they must simplify each expression correctly — distribute, combine like terms, and choose the right code. One wrong answer and the hatch stays locked.

How the escape room works

• Open the private link — no app, no login, no account.
• Solve each animated challenge: distribute, then combine like terms.
• A correct answer reveals the next code; wrong answers won't unlock the door.
• Crack the final code to complete the training and escape.

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 required.
• A PDF containing the private access link to share via Google Classroom, email, or any LMS.

Skills covered

• Applying the distributive property across multiple terms
• Combining like terms to simplify expressions
• Working with two sets of parentheses in one expression
• Operating with positive and negative coefficients

Best used for

Math centers, tech time, early finishers, sub plans, homeschool, test prep, end-of-unit review, and distance learning.