QR Challenge: PSSA Practice Treasure Hunt

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 the fraction for 6.09?	6 and 9/100
2. Norma said she saves 4/5 of the money she earns. What is the decimal form for the portion that she saves?	0.8
3. Write the decimal for 56%.	0.56
4. Matt's average in math went up 20% from 75. What is the new average?	90
5. 16 of the 24 students in Walt's class want to go to college. Use these numbers to predict the number of students in his school of 552 students who want to go to college.	368
6. 8 cubed is equal to what number?	512
7. Is the square root of 9 irrational?	No
8. Is 0.5 an integer?	No
9. -30 - (-50) equals what?	20
10. Simplify 50 + 30 ÷ 5 + 1.	57
11. Donna works 37 hours a week and earns $12 an hour. How much money does she earn each week?	$444
12. Round 34.57 to the nearest whole number.	35
13. Which integer is closest to the square root of 53?	7
14. The perimeter of a square mirror is 40 centimeters. What is the area of the mirror?	100 square centimeters
15. The six glasses of orange juice that Hector drank last week contained 360 calories. What was the unit rate?	60 calories per glass
16. Solve the equation 2 + 10j = -88.	j=-9
17. How many pretzels (p) must Mrs. Jones prepare for 12 children if each child will get at most 3 pretzels?	p ≤ 36
18. How many faces does a rectangular prism have?	6
19. What is the total angle measure of a quadrilateral?	360 degrees
20. If angle 1 and angle 2 are complementary angles, and angle 1 is 50 degrees, what is the measure of angle 2?	40 degrees

 

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