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Game: The secret message (natural numbers and fractions)

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Summary

The secret message is a team review game: solve exercises with natural numbers, fractions, powers, percentages and averages correctly, and each right answer reveals one letter of the hidden message. Mistakes cost time, not points: check, correct and carry on. The game is projected in class and played in teams.

Review game: natural numbers and fractions.

  • Solve each exercise and write the result in the "Result" column.
  • Look up the result in the code key and write the letter you find in every box that has that exercise's number under it.
  • If the message does not make sense, check again the exercise that gave the wrong letter!

The hidden message is in Romanian.

Exercises

No. Exercise Result No. Exercise Result
1. $2^{3} \cdot 5 - 12$ 7. $\frac{2}{3} + \frac{5}{6}$
2. $\frac{3}{4}$ of $36$ 8. $3^{2} + 4^{2}$
3. $100 - 4 \cdot (15 - 7)$ 9. The quotient of $100$ divided by $7$
4. $2,5 \cdot 4 + 1,5$ 10. $7,2:0,8$
5. The smallest three-digit number divisible by $9$ 11. $6^{15}:6^{13} - 2 \cdot 3$
6. $25\%$ of $80$ 12. The arithmetic mean of the numbers $12$, $15$ and $21$

Code key

$\frac{7}{9}$ $0,9$ $\frac{3}{2}$ $2$ $3,2$ $9$ $11,5$ $13,75$ $14$ $16$ $18$
D Z V H P C E O Î S R
$20$ $25$ $27$ $28$ $30$ $48$ $49$ $68$ $102$ $108$ $768$
Ț T I B L U G N F A M

The message

1 2 3 4 5 6 2 7 4 3 2 8
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9 3 10 11 5 12 5 5 7 2 5

Frequently asked questions

How do you play The secret message?

The class splits into teams, and every team gets the same review exercises. Each correct answer earns one letter, and the collected letters gradually reveal the hidden message. The team that decodes the message first, with the most correct answers, wins.

What do you review with this game?

Computing with natural numbers and fractions, powers with natural exponent, percentages and the arithmetic mean: exactly the grade 5 chapters reviewed at the start of grade 6. The exercises are graded, so every team member finds problems at their level.