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. For the Christmas food drive, you class collected 320 cans of food. Each family gets 40 cans of food. How many cartons will you need to pack them? | 8 cartons | 2. For Christmas, you bought your mom 3 gifts costing $24. each and your dad 5 gifts at $18. each. How much money did you spend on mom and dad this Christmas? | $162 | 3. 6 of the classes at Truman Elementary are going to the arena for a Christmas skating party. That means 125 students need to get on buses and each bus hold 48 students. How many buses will the school need? | 3 buses | 4. The mean average of the following 4 math marks will become your winter report card mark. 97, 78, 84 and 86. What will your report card mark be? | 83.3 | 5. For Christmas your mom bought your dad a 1 year swimming pass for $390. She’s making 12 payments of how much money to pay for the pass? | $32.50 | 6. Julie mailed sixty Christmas cards, Jennifer mailed twenty-three Christmas cards, Jacob mailed thirty-one Christmas cards, and Rebecca mailed thirty-two Christmas cards. How many more cards did Destiny and Lauren send out than Jacob and Rebecca altogether? | 53 cards | 7. Madison put thirty lights on her Christmas tree. Jasmine put sixty-two lights on her Christmas tree. How many more lights are on Jasmine's Christmas tree? | 32 lights | 8. Brianna mailed fifty-one Christmas cards, Emma mailed forty-three Christmas cards, Shelby mailed fifty-eight Christmas cards, and Alexis mailed forty Christmas cards. How many less cards did Brianna and Emma send out than Shelby and Alexis altogether? | 4 Christmas cards | 9. Daniel was selling Christmas trees at the mall. He bought a total of ninety trees to sell during the Christmas season. There are only thirty-nine trees left. How many Christmas trees has Daniel sold? | 51 Christmas trees | 10. Santa left fourteen presents for Morgan, twelve presents for Christian, three presents for Cody, seven presents for Cameron, six presents for Jordan, and eight presents for Nathan. How many presents did the six children receive altogether? | 50 presents | 11. Ethan made twelve cookies yesterday. He made an additional thirty cookies today. How many cookies did he make in all? | 42 cookies | 12. Abigail wants to give all twenty-one kids in her fourth grade class a new pen for Christmas. If she pays ten cents for each pen, how much will it cost her to buy one for every student? | $2.10 | 13. Jasmine bought four cards for $5 each. She put $20 in each of the cards, as a gift, and mailed them to each of her grandchildren. She used sixty-one cents worth of stamps to mail each card. How much did Jasmine spend altogether? | $102.44 | 14. Natalie had $60 to spend on gifts. She spent $5.11 on a gift for Taylor, $7.69 on a gift for Robert, and $6.98 on a gift for Hannah. How much money does Natalie have left? | $40.22 | 15. Katherine bought Jasmine a magazine subscription as a gift. Katherine has to make four payments of $7.78 each to pay for the subscription. How much will Katherine pay altogether for the subscription? | 31.12 | 16. Natalie gave the cashier $10 to buy two identical Christmas cards. There was no sales tax or any other charges. The cashier gave Natalie $7.76 back. How much did one card cost? | $1.12 | 17. Hannah's favorite on-line store is offering free shipping on orders of $160 or more. So far, Hannah has three CDs for $13 each and a video game for $48 in her shopping cart. How much more does Samuel need to add to her shopping cart to get free shipping? | $73 more | 18. Christian is at home and wants to go to the mall. It takes Christian eighteen minutes to ride his bike to the mall. He and Morgan promised their mothers that they would leave the mall by 4:25 p.m. It is currently 3:48 p.m. Morgan plans to play a video game with Christian once she arrives at the mall. How long can they play before they have to go home? | 19 minutes | 19. Yesterday, it snowed from 10:54 a.m. to 2:24 p.m. While it was snowing, the average rate of accumulation was two inches per hour. How many inches of snow fell yesterday? | 7 inches | 20. Kaylee's favorite toy store will be open from 7:37 a.m. to 7:17 p.m. on Saturday. How long will the store be open on Saturday? | 11 hours and 40 minutes | 21. Hannah decided at 2:30 p.m. to make egg nog. She took ten minutes to drive to the store. She spent nine minutes at the store buying the ingredients and twelve minutes driving home. It only took Hannah sixteen minutes to make the egg nog once she arrived home. What time did Hannah finish making the egg nog? | 3:17 pm | 22. Mackenzie works at the mall and earns $5 per hour. This week, Mackenzie worked from 2:25 p.m. to 6:50 p.m. on Sunday, from 1:22 p.m. to 6:44 p.m. on Monday, from 1:21 p.m. to 5:57 p.m. on Tuesday, from 1:20 p.m. to 6:58 p.m. on Wednesday, and from 2:25 p.m. to 7:50 p.m. on Thursday. How much did Mackenzie earn? | $127.17 | 23. Alexandra made her own Christmas cards this year. She spent eleven minutes drawing each card and three minutes signing and addressing the card. If Alexandra starts at 10:00 a.m., what time will she finish seven cards? | 11:38 am | 24. Santa flew his sleigh for 2,200 miles. He flew his sleigh 452 mph for the first 2 hours and 432 mph for the rest of his trip. How long did Santa fly at 432 mph? | 5 1/7 hours | 25. Santa flew his sleigh for 2,465 miles. He flew his sleigh 448 mph for the first 2 hours and 523 mph for the rest of his trip. How long did Santa fly at 523 mph? | 3 hours | 26. Three of Santa's helpers are a combined height of ten feet and eight inches. Hannah is fourteen inches shorter than Aaron, who is eight inches taller than Nathan. How tall is each of Santa's helpers? | Hannah is 36 inches, Nathan is 42 inches, and Aaron is 50 inches | 27. Rebecca, Cameron, and Danielle spent $1,359 to buy their dad a computer. The three of them used their savings to pay for the computer. Cameron paid $180 more than Rebecca. Rebecca paid $306 less than Danielle. How much did Danielle pay? | $597 | 28. At Tate's Trees, all of the Christmas trees are sixty-five percent off. Timothy bought a tree and paid $84. Assuming no tax, what was the original price of the tree that Timothy purchased? | $240 | 29. In twelve minutes, Cameron can write out five Christmas cards. Brittany can write out eleven Christmas cards in the same amount of time. If they work together, how long will it take them to write out 176 Christmas cards? | 2 hours and 12 minutes |
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