Engage your Year 6 pupils with maths by taking part in Calculator Crunch. The Calculator Crunch problems provide extra practice for Year 6 and 7 pupils in key areas of the maths curriculum and they’ll develop their confidence with calculators so that they’re ready for secondary school maths.

Calculator Crunch 2024 runs from 24-28 June. Each morning, we’ll release a new challenge that involves using a calculator (basic or scientific) to solve an interesting problem.

Parents and carers can use the challenges with their children at home, or teachers can use them in the classroom.

Please get in touch if you’d like to know more about Calculator Crunch.

How does it work?

During the challenge, we’ll post five questions on X (formerly Twitter) and here on our website over a period of a week. We’ve designed the problems to deepen children’s mathematical thinking skills in a fun way.

Follow @MEIMaths on X and get involved by using the hashtag #CalculatorCrunch.

You can download the questions as PDF files to display on whiteboards, print them as hand-outs or send them electronically as work to be completed at home.

The problems

Problems from previous Calculator Crunch competitions

If you’re involved in supporting KS2-3 transition, resources from previous Calculator Crunch competitions are particularly useful.