Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse

By Platform Administrator · Submitted Sep 30, 2026

Content Area: Mathematics
Grade: 5

Students take the role of a person trying to survive during the "Zombie Apocalypse." Students use multiplication to work their way through a series of tasks in order to survive - choose a case to carry their belongings, choose a destination to travel to, raid a grocery store, and calculate how many zombies they have seen in a year.

MA Standards

5.NBT.B.5

Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers. (Include two-digit x four-digit numbers and, three-digit x three-digit numbers) using the standard algorithm.

SMP.1

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

Resources

Task Template (PDF) PDF · 163 KB
Task Template (Word) DOCX · 53 KB
Student Directions DOCX · 596 KB
Rubric DOCX · 1.72 MB

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