This is a breakout activity. Other materials are required for this activity such as:

Locks, boxes, black light flashlights, red lens decoders.

Students will work together in groups to unlock a series of boxes. In order to unlock these boxes, they must use their knowledge of geometry. (mostly area)

This assignment has the following skills practice:

1. Triangle Inequality Theorem

• Does it make a triangle?
• Range of the third side given 2 side lengths
• Ordering sides when given angles
• Ordering angles when given sides
• Finding the area of triangles, parallelograms, rectangles, and trapezoids
• Finding the volume of a rectangular prism
• Finding a length or height given the area
• Supplementary and Complimentary angles