QR Challenge: Math Quiz

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

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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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. What is common between the words naught, zilch and zip?	They all mean “Zero”.
2. Give the first 10 Fibonacci numbers.	0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34
3. What is the word for a line that intersects two or more other lines?	Transversal
4. Where was the name "Google" derived from?	Google—a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.
5. What is the name for the branch of math’s that studies triangles and the relation between its sides and angles?	Trigonometry
6. Name the Mathematician who is born on pi day	Albert Einstein
7. What comes after a million, billion and trillion?	A quadrillion
8. “Number rules the universe”. Who said it?	Pythagoras
9. Can you write 31 using only digit 3 five times?	33-3+3/3
10. Who is known as ‘The maker of Mathematicians’?	Plato

 

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