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. One fifth of the people living in a town are 6'0" or taller than 6'0", and one sixth of the people living in the same town are 5'0" or shorter than 5'0". What fraction of the people of the town measure between 5'0" and 6'0"? P) 11/30 Q)19/30 R) 29/30 S)21/30 | Q-19/30 | 2. John has 8/9 yard of black trim and 3/4 yard of violet trim. If he has a total of 18/9 yards of trim, how many yards of trim are neither black nor violet? A) 1/4 B) 26/36 C) 13/18 D) 5/9 | A 1/4 | 3. A store has a sale of a fixed number of shirts, during two consecutive days. In the first day, the store sells half of the shirts, and in the second day it sells one third of the remaining shirts. What fraction of the initial number of shirts is left in the store after the two days? R) 5/6 S)1/4 T) 1/6 U) 1/2 | T 1/6 | 4. A farmer is packing grapefruit into boxes. He packs the same number of grapefruit into each box. He has packed a total of 264 grapefruit into 22 boxes. He still has 180 grape fruit that must be packed. How many more boxes must the farmer pack? D) 12 E) 15 F) 18 G) 21 | E 15 | 5. Patrick ate 3/5 of a small pizza on Friday might. For lunch on Saturday, he ate ½ of the leftover pizza. How much pizza did he eat for lunch on Saturday? J) 7/10 K) 2/5 L)3/10 M) 1/5 | M 1/5 | 6. The total length of three boards is 7/8 of a yard. The length of two of the boards are 1/4 of a yard and 3/16 of a yard. What is the length of the third board? S) 7/16 T) 1/2 U) 9/16 V) 3/8 | U 9/16 | 7. Josh poured 38 gallons of water into 6 buckets. He poured the same amount into each bucket. How much water did Josh pour into each bucket? F) 6 and 4/6 G) 6 and 1/2 H) 6 and 1/3 I) 6 and 1/6 | H 6 1/3 | 8. Two-thirds of the students in a class are wearing blue jeans. Two-sixths of the students who are wearing blue jeans are also wearing red shirts. What fraction of the students in the class are wearing blue jeans and red shirts? S) 2/18 T) 2/9 U) 6/18 V) 4/9 | T 2/9 | 9. 6 friends are sharing a pizza. The pizza is cut into eight equal slices. How many slices of pizza will each friend get if they share the pizza equally? P) 1 and 1/6 Q) 1 and 1/4 R) 1 and 1/2 S) 1 and 1/3 | S 1 and 1/3 |
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