Pemmet the hedgehog runs the Pi Bakery in Dunmellow Oasis, and this morning every label, tin and tag has been swapped. The Pi Bakery Mix-Up is a printable Pi Day math escape room for Grades 6 to 8: the class sorts out the bakery with circles, pi and number pyramids.
How it plays
- Crews of 2 to 4 visit six stations: Order Slips, a Pantry Check, a Mix-Up Stack, Sale Tags, a Pie Path and a Tin Stack. Each station gives one number.
- Every station comes in two strengths with the same answer: Hand Pie for Grades 6 and 7 and Deep Dish for Grades 7 and 8, so a mixed class plays side by side.
- Two kinds of pyramid are new: a finished add-up pyramid where two labels were swapped, and a stack of tins labelled r, d, C and A whose diameters add.
- Hint spoons give three steps of help at every station.
The Pie Chart
The finale is a pie with a 100-notch crust. The crew cuts it into six slices, and the six slices must add up to exactly 100, which is a built-in check: if they do not, a station number is wrong somewhere. The first five cuts point at letter tiles that spell a word.
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The Pi Bakery Mix-Up
A printable Pi Day math escape room for Grades 6 to 8: six bakery stations, two levels with one answer key, and the Pie Chart finale with 100 notches.
See it on EtsyDesigned by Creouts Publishing using original prompts and AI (Claude by Anthropic). Illustrations made with AI image tools. Digital download: nothing is shipped.
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