QR Challenge: Y5 Mental Strategies Trail

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. If you know 3 add 4 = 7 what is 300,000 add 400,000	700,000
2. If 8 subtract 3 = 5 what is 800 subtract 500	300
3. If 9 add 7 = 16 what is 90 add 70	160
4. If 8,000 add 7,000 = 15,000 and 30 add 20 = 50, what is 8,030 add 7,020	15,050
5. 30,000 add 17,000	47,000
6. 12,700 subtract 2,300	10,400
7. 30,500 add 17,400	47,900
8. 2,360 add 99	2459
9. 2,360 subtract 99	2261
10. 52,871 add 99	52,970
11. 470,364 subtract 99	470,265
12. 55 subtract 19	36

 

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