QR Challenge: algebraic expressions and phrases

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. six less than a number	x-6
2. the product of three and s	3q
3. five more than three times a number	3y+5
4. three decreased by a number	3-g
5. three less than a number	g-3
6. a number doubled	2r
7. the quotient of seventeen and k	17÷k
8. the sum of fourteen and twice a number	2n+14
9. sixty split into r groups	60÷r
10. the product of eleven and a number increased by ten	11h+10
11. a number tripled decreased by twenty	3e-20
12. a number less twenty	r-20

 

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