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. The range of a set of data is 15. The greatest number in the set is 52. What is the minimum number in the data set? | 37 | 2. Amber mailed a survey to 20 people asking them how long they had lived in Hot Springs. She put the results on the following stem-and-leaf plot. What is the mode and range of the data? | 21 and 27 | 3. Tabitha used the table below to record the high temperatures in her room. What was the median high temperature for the week? | 85 | 4. Tabitha used the table below to record the high temperatures in her room. What was the mean high temperature for the week? | 84.7 | 5. Jackson asked 9 students how many siblings they have. The line plot below shows the results. Is the mean or median greater? explain your answer. | 2 median and 2.5 mean | 6. The box and whiskers below represents math test scores. Answer the following questions: What was the high score on the test? What percent of the class scored above a 71? What was the median score on the test? What percent of the class scored between 85& 92? What is the range of the data set? | answers vary | 7. Using the histogram below, what percent of all Shakespeare’s words are more than 5 letters long? What percent of all Shakespeare’s words are more than 8 letters long? | answer vary | 8. In the figure below, the two rectangles are similar, with the width of each being smaller that its length. What is the width of the larger rectangle? | 18in | 9. What is the name of the line segment AC? | diameter | 10. Using the two similar shapes below, find the area of the smaller triangle? | 11.5 in | 11. Draw a net for a triangular pyramid. | picture | 12. Mr. Peret gave his class the following clues to describe a mystery 3-D geometric shape. It is a solid geometric shape. It has a total of four faces. it has a total of 4 vertices. What geometric picture was Mr. Peret describing? | square pyramid | 13. Name the transformation that is illustrated in the picture below. | flip | 14. Triangle ABC has one 90 degree angle and a 60 degree angle. What is the measurement of the 3rd angle? | 50 degrees | 15. What type of geometric figure is the shape below? Explain your answer. | isosceles triangle | 16. What is the area of the triangle below? | 63 sq in | 17. Kevin needs to spin purple to win the game. What ratio will represent the probability that Kevin will spin purple. Show all your work and explain your answer. | 1/4 | 18. Pushover Earth Movers charges to level a lot based on the area of the land. What is the area of the building plot shaped like a parallelogram shown below? | 375 sq ft | 19. Use the graph below to answer the question. Which point represents the ordered pair (3,6)? | r |
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