Name: Freebie! One-Step Equations Digital Cipher Pursuit - Valentine's Day Edition
Brand: Surviving in Secondary
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Freebie! One-Step Equations Digital Cipher Pursuit - Valentine's Day Edition

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One-Step Equations Cipher Pursuit Digital Resource-Valentines Edition

Keep your Pre-Algebra and Algebra students engaged with this Valentines Day-themed math activity.Cipher Pursuit is an engaging and interactive Google Sheets activity designed to challenge your math students' problem-solving skills while having fun. In this activity, students answer a series of questions to gradually uncover pieces of a cryptogram. This activity promotes independence as the resource itself provides instant feedback with each student input into the answer boxes. Each correct answer turns green and reveals a hidden section, which helps them decode the secret code word. As they progress, your students not only enhance their knowledge and comprehension with one-step equations with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, but also experience the thrill of a treasure hunt, ultimately piecing together all the clues to solve the cryptogram and code word making learning an exciting adventure. Enjoy adding this low to no prep assignment that is sure to engage students who like gamified learning all while this self-checking activity saves you precious prep time!

Easily use as a Valentine's day activity, classwork practice, sub plan or homework assignment!

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PDF with instructions and link to Google sheets activity
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To access the resource, you must download the PDF, then click the link within to make a copy! This is a Google Sheets activity and requires access to Google Suite for staff and students.

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“Kept the students engaged while working on great practice.”

Erin D.

“Great way to practice with a fun spin! My kids were excited to see what the code breaker would reveal.”

Allison L.

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While I absolutely enjoy this resource, I had some initial difficulty getting my students to actually be able to work on it individually. First, it is online only through google slides; so, I made a copy as instructed. However, the mistake I made was sharing that copy with all of my students. When they accessed it, they were all editing the same copy. I had to make a copy for each of my students and share it with them individually. Second, I had to give each student editor permission (I only missed this step twice). That being said I do love the resource as it self-checks, enabling students to get a 100% and complete the picture. I plan to us it again.

Reply from Surviving in Secondary

Hi Velma, thank you for letting us know you liked this resource. Typically, once you create your own copy, we recommend sharing that through your schools Learning Management system and then there is typically a spot to click that creates individual copies for students. Hopefully that can streamline that process for you for future use!

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This was a fun worksheet that was low stress that my students could do alone or together to test their knowledge.

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Reply from Surviving in Secondary

Hi Marissa, thank you so much for this feedback! That is the exact question we were trying to answer when we were designing this resource!

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This was a great activity to do while in the middle of our astronomy unit.

Reply from Surviving in Secondary

Hi Kelly, thank you for the review! We’re happy to hear it worked well in your astronomy unit.

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We are two educators with a combined total of over 20 years of middle and high school teaching experience. We have a passion for quality materials and research-based interventions. We create resources that help strike the balance between screen time and person-to-person connections, all while engaging students at varied levels and saving you prep time! We have experience in all core content areas, as well as special education. Our goal is to help other secondary educators survive and thrive in their classroom with engaging, easy-to-use resources your students will be sure to love!

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