Year 6 Estimate to Check Answers Game

Teacher Specific Information

This Year 6 Estimate to Check Answers Game comprises questions designed to check pupils’ ability to estimate the answer to a calculation to an appropriate degree of accuracy in order to check their answers. Pupils will choose the best estimate from a selection, answer true or false about an estimation, estimate answers to find correct calculations, drag and drop to show the best approximation, and estimate the answer to a calculation to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000.

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National Curriculum Objectives

Number – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
Mathematics Year 6: (6C3) Use estimation to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, an appropriate degree of accuracy