Description
This scavenger hunt activity combines the skill of solving compound inequalities with a mystery. Students will use the clues they gather from correctly solving inequalities to solve the mystery!
This activity presents answers in THREE forms:
- as inequalities
- in interval notation
- on a number line
You can print your scavenger hunt cards as a complete set in one of these forms, or pick and choose to have a mixture of answer representations!
This item is customizable using Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can customize:
- The title of your mystery — If you don’t want to use the game model where the students investigate a murder, you can now change the setting to be anything you would like! Ideas that other teachers have used include a burglary, a case of mixed-up identity, what the teacher did last weekend… whatever you can imagine!
- The suspects, the weapons and the locations! Students enjoy seeing their teachers, administrators, rival schools, and local and national sports heroes included in their assignments.
Please note that the user is NOT able to edit the individual questions or answers.
This kit offers multiple ways to use this activity.
Use as a Scavenger Hunt: The download includes 3 sets of 23 full-color cards and 3 sets of 23 black and white cards for you to print and hang around your room for a class activity. As students solve the inequalities, they look around the room for their answer to see what clue they should eliminate.
Use as an Individual Activity: The download also includes three versions, with each having all of the necessary clue information so students can complete this activity outside of the classroom. The answer choices on the first individual activity are given as inequalities, on the second in interval notation, and on the third on a number line.
In all versions, the activity contains 20 inequalities, and each answer is associated with either a suspect, a weapon, or a location. When a student gets the answer, that option is eliminated from the mystery. When they are finished, students will only have one suspect, one weapon and location left, and they will have solved the mystery!
