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Project type: Game & Event Design
Learning Objectives: Example output from an AI chatbot:
By completing this project, students will: Room 1: The Marketplace Lock
• Write and simplify algebraic expressions, including collecting like terms. Skill: Writing Expressions
• Use formulas and expand brackets to solve problems. Clue:
• Use an AI chatbot to make a game. You buy 3 books at £x each and 2 pens at £4 each.
• Correct mathematical inaccuracies in AI-generated text.
Enter the total cost as an expression.
✅ Answer: 3x + 8 AI meets Maths 1, Teacher's Notes
Materials Needed: Lower Secondary
Room 2: Speed Gate
• Maths textbook or class notes
Skill: Using a Formula
• Devices (laptop, tablet or PC) with internet access
Clue:
• Access to a school-approved AI chatbot (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.)
• Worksheet Project 8 You ran 100 meters in 20 seconds. What was your speed?
• Highlighters or coloured pens (to mark AI mistakes) (Use: Speed = Distance ÷ Time)
✅ Answer: 5 m/s
Step-by-Step Guidelines Room 3: Code Scrolls
Skill: Collecting Like Terms
Revision & Introduction
• Begin with a quick recap of: Clue:
 The different types of algebraic expressions and how to simplify them. Simplify the scroll: 4a + 3b + 2a − b
 The use of formulas, like terms and brackets in problem solving. ✅ Answer: 6a + 2b
• Introduce the activity and its goals: Room 4: The Final Door
Today, you’ll create 4 algebra puzzles with an AI chatbot, each one part of a escape room, using
expressions, formulas, like terms and brackets! Skill: Expanding Brackets
• Be aware that some students may not be familiar with the term escape room, so explain to Clue:
them how an escape room works. Break the code: (x + 3)(x + 2)
Puzzle creation ✅ Answer: x² + 5x + 6
• Students use an AI chatbot to make 4 puzzles and type a prompt such as:
Create four short escape room puzzles. Each puzzle must include one of the following: writing • Students copy or paste the AI-generated puzzles into their worksheet.
expressions, using a formula, collecting like terms and expanding brackets. Make each puzzle Ask the AI to solve the puzzles
part of an escape room.
• Students ask the AI to solve each one of the puzzles.
• Students re-read the AI’s answers, using their Maths textbooks or class notes.
• Students highlight or underline mathematics mistakes, write them down and then rewrite
those parts accurately.
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Project 8 The algebra escape room
Test the algebra escape room
• Students read their classmate’s algebra escape room puzzle to test it.
• They correct any wrong expressions or steps they identified and write down the corrected
versions, checking their answers collaboratively.
• They rewrite the puzzle if necessary, making sure the new version keeps the original story
short, clear and mathematically correct.
Share with the class
• Students present their puzzle solutions to the class, taking on the role of the escape room
master and explaining their reasoning clearly.
• Encourage the students to ask simple reflective questions such as:
 What was the hidden code? AI meets Maths 1, Teacher's Notes
 How did you write the expression?
 Why did you expand the brackets like that?
Student’s Success Checklist
• Students complete the checklist.
• Explain to students that this checklist helps them use the mathematics terms correctly and
use AI in a smart and careful way.
• Point out to students that they should be honest with their answers–it’s not about ticking
boxes but rather about growing as a thoughtful and responsible learner.
Reflection
• Discuss:
 Did creating and testing the puzzles help you practise algebra skills?
 Were the AI’s suggestions helpful and correct?
 What did you need to correct or improve in the AI’s puzzles?
• Students complete a short written reflection.

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