Talk Maths Year 6

Talk Maths is a fun way to get children talking about maths and working together to solve problems. This app provides four games to help children practise their mathematical vocabulary and speaking and listening skills.

Talk Maths is designed for pairs of children using iPads in school.

One child plays ‘blue’ and the other plays ‘green’, with each child having their own colour-coded area of the screen.

Talk Maths Year 6 is aimed at children aged 10-11 (England Year 6). This app provides four games, each differentiated at four levels.
1-dot is aimed at children who need Support
2-dot is for the Core of your class
3-dot is for children you want to Extend
4-dot provides an extra-hard Challenge!

Number Sums – make the sides of the triangle equal
1-dot: make a total of 10; find a second way
2-dot: make a total of 39; find a second way
3-dot: make a total of 6; there are four mystery numbers; find a second way
4-dot: make a total of 3; mystery numbers include a negative number

Dominoes – match the capacities (litres, pints and gallons)
1-dot: use simple fractions and multiples to find equivalents
2-dot: use further calculations to find equivalents
3-dot: use more complex calculations to find equivalents
4-dot: capacities are approximately equivalent

Marble Run – adjust the function machine to make the target number
1-dot: input value 0.5, targets 50, 0.05, 500 and 5
2-dot: input value 0.5, targets 5, 50, 0.05 and 0.005
3-dot: input value 0.5, targets 5, 500, 0.5, 0.0005
4-dot: input value 50, targets 0.05, 0.005, 0.0005, 500000

Mystery Number – use clues to eliminate digits and find the mystery decimal
1-dot: clue vocab: round, digit, odd, even, multiple of 3
2-dot: clue vocab: round, digit, even, consecutive, total, product, multiple of 3
3-dot: clue vocab: round, digit, even, consecutive, product, multiple of 4
4-dot: clue vocab: round, even, consecutive, product, divisible by, multiple