1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
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| 1. 1. Explain the steps in ordering fractions and decimals so that a fourth grader would understand. You may number the steps, but they need to be in complete sentences. | open answer | 2. 2. Explain what is meant by a repeating decimal and a decimal. Can you give an example of each? What are the symbols for a repeating decimal? | A repeating decimal gets the same remainder no matter how many zeros are added. A terminating decimal ends with no remainder. | 3. 3. A third grader says that 0.8 is less than 0.75. Is he correct? Explain your answer. | No. He is thinking that 75 is larger than 8. He should've added a zero behind the 8 when he compared them. | 4. 4. Go to the back table and find the red slip of paper for problem #4. | choice D | 5. 5. Go the the back table and find the red slip of paper for problem #5. | check |
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