Internet Scavenger Hunts don’t always have to operate by giving your scavengers a list of tasks they will accomplish by searching through several websites. Adding a little spice won’t hurt. Challenge your scavengers by putting their Math skills to the test. It is up to you to up the level of difficulty, but you must be certain that the clues you prepare could be grasped by your participants. Otherwise, instead of it being fun, it’d turn out to be like a punishment. Below is an example of an Internet Scavenger Hunt List infusing some simple arithmetic. Try it with your friends and see who gets the correct answer the fastest.

1. Go to barnesandnoble.com and search for the books “Eclipse”¹ and “The Pillars of the Earth”² and get the sum of their pages.

2. Count all the tracks in the Les Miserables 10^th Anniversary DVD and subtract it from the answer you previously got.

3. Add the number of Grammy Awards won by Alison Krauss.

4. Subtract the number of letters of the title of the famous song from Mary Poppins that starts with “S”.

5. Add the baptismal year of William Shakespeare.

6. Multiply it by the number of sons of Adam and Eve.

7. Subtract the cube of the number of “A”s in the word which is Garfield’s favorite food.

8. Go to orchestra.com and find the number of instruments under woodwinds in a typical symphony orchestra then add this to the previous answer.

9. Add the number of all the teams listed on nba.com.

10. Send your final answer to (your email here).

¹Published August 2007

²Published July 1990

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