In many classrooms, AP Precalculus is taught through worksheets, lectures, and tests—yet students often struggle to see how these mathematical concepts apply to the real world. Meanwhile, critical thinking, collaboration, and real-time decision-making are skills urgently needed across today’s careers. The Evacuation Pathways project was designed to solve that disconnect by transforming AP Precalculus instruction into an immersive, life-or-death simulation. In this project, students take on the