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. There were 128 people on the bus one quarter jumped off and half of a quarter came on. How many people end on the bus | 112 | 2. Figure this out.15x15x9-47 | 358 | 3. Bob has twice as many coins as Frank. When Bob give Frank two coins they have the same amount. How many coins do they have? | 6 coins | 4. Steven had 10 horses but only 19 fences, help Frederick make 10 paddocks with 19 fences. | written on a piece of paper | 5. In June, 16 new calves were born while in May, 6 cows had been sold. Also in May, there had been a blockage in the water pipe to the cows feeding yard. At the beginning of Spring, another 14 cows at calves and in October, three new cows were bought for the herd. In February a new dairy working had to be trained and the in November another one to be trained. During March the hay was cut for winter feed.The busiest season of the year was spring true or false | True | 6. The rowers trained for the 400m eights and think that they can improve by taking fewer strokes every time they do the 400m. If they can cut one extra stroke from their count every week, in what week will they be doing less than 30 strokes? | 23rd week (see answer table.) | 7. The swipems cricket club apposed the blockers club one Saturday afternoon Henry from the swipems, score 150 which was as many as Sam, Daniel and Jack together. Sam scored 40 more than Jack and 50 more than Daniel. What were Sam, Jack and Daniel scores? | Sam-60, Jack-50 and Daniel-40. | 8. Using numbers 1-15, make the totals of all rows and columns 35. | see answer table. | 9. Jim had 78 stickers and Tim had 18 , Jim gave Tim some stickers. Now Jim has 37. How many stickers did Jim give to Tim? | 19 | 10. Draw a five triangle house, without taking the pen of the paper or crossing over lines. | written on a piece of paper |
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