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.
Question | Answer |
1. Ron and Amanda collected 497 buttons, but they used 177 of them while fixing some jackets. About how many buttons do they have now? | About 300 buttons | 2. A movie theater makes $482 from ticket sales each day. About how much would the theater make after selling tickets for 2 days? | About $1,000.00 | 3. Mom made 510 cupcakes for the bake sale. 226 sold in two days. About how many cupcakes are left? | About 300 cupcakes | 4. A bakery sold 963 cookies everyday. About how many cookies did they sell in one week? | About 7,000 cookies | 5. Tim, Caleb, and Michael collected 989 baseball cards, but 165 got lost at the park. About how many baseball cards do they have now? | About 800 baseball cards | 6. Michael had $504 in his checking account. Then he wrote a check for $281. About how much money is left in Michael account? | $200.00 | 7. 237 of Dad's 609 screws got lost in the garage. About how many screws does he have now? | About 400 screws | 8. A school has a contest to see who can recycle the most cans. Team A recycled 153,946 cans, Team B recycled 239,171 cans, and Team C recycled 148,203 cans. About how many cans did the three teams recycle? (Round to the hundred thousands) | About 500,000 cans | 9. 882 passengers are waiting in the train station. 660 finally get on a train. About how many are left? | About 200 passengers | 10. Liz and Mary went to a candy store and bought 959 pieces of candy. 152 were bought by Liz. About how many did Mary buy? | About 800 pieces of candy | 11. George loves marbles. 220 of his 615 marbles rolled away. About how many does George have now? | About 400 marbles | 12. Students from Penn State are holding a race. 512 of the 730 runners crossed the finish line. About how many runners have not crossed yet? | About 200 runners | 13. Tina and Aaron had 717 raisins, but 185 fell on the ground and had to be thrown out. About how many do they have now? | About 500 raisins |
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