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. Given a right triangle with side lengths 48 and 14. What is the length of the hypotenuse? | h=50 | 2. Given a right triangle with the length of the hypotenuse equal to 14 and one side leg equal to 8. What is the length of the missing leg? | x=2 square root 33 | 3. John leaves school to go home. He walks 9 blocks North and then 12 blocks west. How far is John from the school? | the distance from school to home is 15 blocks. | 4. Given a 45-45-90 right triangle with the length of the hypotenuse equal to 24. Find the length of the legs of the triangle. | 12√2 | 5. A conveyor belt carries bales of hay to the barn loft 24 feet above the ground. The belt makes a 60° angle with the ground. How far does a bale of hay travel from one end of the conveyor belt to the other? Please round your answer to the nearest foot. | 28ft | 6. Who has been teaching you for the past week? Please see this teacher to receive the question! | Julia and Drew Handout. | 7. Is a triangle with a hypotenuse equal to 65 and legs equal to 16 and 63 a right triangle? | yes, it is a right triangle. | 8. What is the length of a diagonal of a square with sides of length 12? | 12 square root 2 | 9. The Garden Club is building a flower garden for Lincoln High School. The design is a square with a diagonal walkway. One side of the garden is 50ft. What is the length of the walkway through the garden? Round your answer to the nearest foot. | 71ft | 10. Sharp or dull you will find both here only costing you a quarter. You will find this question here. | 30 60 90 | 11. In your textbook you’ll find the next question! Please solve problem number 8 on page 369. | Book Question | 12. Prentice Hall Mathematics holds your next question! Please turn to page 369 and solve number 12. | book question | 13. Underneath this rectangular prism you’ll find this the question that goes along with this clue… Bless you! | 30 60 90 problem. | 14. Hopefully you recycle your homework here…. | 30 60 90 | 15. The question for this clue can be found at a right angle in this room… look around. | 30 60 90 corner question | 16. You can search for this question while browsing to see when your next Bengals team will play | 30 60 90 near Bengals news | 17. The question for this clue is with someone who once worked for the mouse… Mickey Mouse. | 30 60 90 | 18. BONUS! You can find this BONUS Question next to the helpful math tool! Hint plug in your answer… | by calculators | 19. BONUS! This BONUS Question is hidden among the chapters… Turn to page 370 and solve #24. | Book question |
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