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. Laura decides to share her sweets with her best friend Salma. There are 24 sweets in total and they each get half. How many sweets will Laura have? | 12 | 2. Gospel has 36 coloured pencils. He shares them equally between Atakan, Mohammed, Haseeb and himself. Each will get one quarter. How many coloured pencils will Gospel have? | 9 | 3. Emily has 27 balloons. She shares them with Hayley and Emma. They each get one third. How many balloons will Emily have? | 9 | 4. There are 10 pupils in Mrs Robert’s class. Mrs Roberts has 70 cubes. Each child will get one tenth of the cubes. How many cubes will each child have? | 7 | 5. Miss Jones has 24 well done marks which she wants to give out. There are 4 children in her group who have tried really hard with their learning. Each child will receive one quarter of the stickers. How many stickers will each child receive? | 6 | 6. Abdi is making a cake. He has 250 grams of butter. He needs to put 1/5 of the butter into the bowl. How many grams of butter will he have left over? | 50g | 7. Paulo has 60 grams of sweets. She eats 2/10 of the sweets. How many grams of sweets does he have left? | 48 | 8. Could he share what he has left equally between his three friends?Explain. | yes | 9. In a bag of marbles, there are 86 marbles. Half are blue. How many blue narbles are there? | 43 | 10. Mr Clarke starts reading a book which is 55 pages long. So far he has read two fifths of it.How many pages has he read so far? | 22 |
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