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. Teresa's book has 56 pages. She wants to read the same number of pages for each of 4 days. She wants to know how many pages she should read each day. Is Teresa trying to find the number in each group, or the number of equal groups? | the number in each group | 2. A hot-air balloon pilot plans to take 65 people on hot-air balloon rides. The balloon can carry 5 people at a time. He wants to know how many balloon trips he needs to make. Does the pilot need to find the number in each group, or the number of equal groups? | the number of equal groups | 3. Ellis bought 4 action figures. Each action figure cost the same amount. He paid a total of $48. How much did he spend for each action figure? | $12 | 4. Meg bought 320 sheets of paper for an art project. The paper came in 4 equal packages. How many sheets of paper were in each package? | 80 | 5. Kevin separated 600 paper clips into 6 equal piles. How many paper clips were in each pile? | 100 | 6. There are 9 showings of a documentary about endangered species at the science museum. A total of 458 people saw the documentary. About how many people were at each showing? | about 50 | 7. Kelli and her family went to the beach for the weekend. They drove 293 miles in 7 hours to get there. About how many miles did they drive each hour? | about 40 miles | 8. Three popcorn vendors donated a total of 636 bags of popcorn for the school fair. If each vendor donated the same number of bags, how many bags of popcorn did each vendor donate? | 212 | 9. Keith wants to fill 9 pages of his photo album with the same number of photographs on each page. If he has 117 photographs, how many photographs will he put on each page? | 13 | 10. Ling has a rope that is 420 inches long. She is cutting the rope into 5 equal pieces to make jump ropes. How long will each jump rope be? | 84 inches | 11. Gabriella used 864 beads to make necklaces for the craft fair. She put 8 beads on each necklace. How many necklaces did Gabriella make? | 108 | 12. Mr. Chang's class donated a total of 570 cans of soup in 6 weeks. They donated the same number of cans each week. How many cans of soup did they donate each week? | 95 | 13. Jake wants to distribute 1,231 marbles among 7 of his friends. In which place is the first digit of the quotient? Thousands, hundreds, tens, or ones? | hundreds | 14. Sylvia plans to place 5,136 stamps in an album. Each page of the album holds 5 stamps. In which place is the first digit of the quotient? | thousands | 15. A store gave away 576 calendars in 6 days. They gave away the same number of calendars each day. How many calendars did the store give away each day? | 96 | 16. A toy manufacturer has 729 yo-yos to be distributed equally among 3 stores. How many yo-yos will each store receive? | 243 | 17. Mr. Larson has a total of 100 sheets of paper to pass out to 5 groups of students in his class. There are 4 students in each group, and he wants to give each student the same number of sheets. How many sheets of paper can Mr. Larson give each student? | 5 | 18. The school auditorium can hold 112 people. There are 7 seats in each row. There are 70 people seated, filling up full rows of seats. How many rows are empty? | 6 |
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