Year 6 Maths Challenge

Yes, it's completely free with no signup required to start practising. Your child can open a topic and answer questions straight away, and their progress (points, streaks, and which questions they've got right) is saved automatically in the browser they're using. Signing in is entirely optional — it only exists so progress can follow your child across devices (a tablet at home and a laptop at school, for example) instead of staying stuck in one browser. There's no paywall, no premium tier, and no ads on the practice pages.

Yes. All 15 topics — place value, the four operations, factors/multiples/primes, fractions, decimals, percentages, ratio and proportion, algebra, measurement, perimeter/area/volume, properties of shapes, position and direction, statistics, word problems, and mathematical reasoning — map directly onto the UK National Curriculum for Year 6 mathematics (Key Stage 2). These are the same topic areas assessed in the KS2 maths SATs, so regular practice here reinforces exactly what a Year 6 class is expected to know, without following an exam-paper format.

Yes. Year 6 and Key Stage 2 (KS2) are UK National Curriculum terms, and they're used by British curriculum and international schools worldwide, including many in Pakistan, India, Nigeria, the UAE, the Philippines, and Bangladesh. If your child's school follows the English National Curriculum or a British-curriculum syllabus (rather than a local Grade 6 curriculum), the 15 topics here line up with what they're being taught, regardless of which country you're practising from.

A worksheet gives your child a fixed set of questions and no feedback until an adult marks it. Maths Challenge marks each answer instantly, and — importantly — explains the correct method whether the answer was right or wrong, so a mistake becomes a quick lesson rather than just a red cross. Questions are also randomised and mixed by difficulty (easy, medium, hard, or mixed) each time, so a child can practise the same topic repeatedly without memorising a fixed answer sheet. If you'd rather have printable, offline practice, ShopYor's separate Year 6 worksheet packs cover the same fractions topic in PDF form.

Yes. Every practice session updates a progress dashboard showing overall points, total questions answered, accuracy percentage, and how many of the 15 topics your child has fully completed (meaning every question in that topic's bank has been answered correctly at least once). If you sign in, that dashboard is saved to your account under 'My Maths Progress' and stays available the next time you log in, on any device — not just the one your child happened to be using that day.

Without signing in, no personal data is collected at all — progress is stored only in the browser's local storage on your child's own device and is never sent anywhere. If you choose to sign in (optional, via Google or GitHub) so progress follows your child across devices, only the progress data itself (points, badges, and which questions have been answered) is stored against your account — never used for advertising, and there are no ads or third-party trackers on the practice pages themselves.

Most primary teachers suggest short, frequent practice — around 10 to 15 minutes a day — is more effective for retention than one long weekly session, since it keeps number facts and methods fresh without causing fatigue. The Daily Maths Challenge (5 mixed questions, refreshed every day) is sized for exactly that kind of quick daily habit, while the full topic practice sessions (around 10 questions each) suit a slightly longer sitting when your child wants to focus on one weak area, like fractions or ratio, in more depth.

Yes — nothing about it is designed only for home use. A teacher can display a topic on a whiteboard for whole-class practice, or set individual students a specific topic (say, 'Perimeter, Area and Volume') to work through independently on classroom devices, since each topic is a self-contained page with its own URL. There's no class-management or gradebook feature yet, so it works best as a supplementary practice tool alongside your existing scheme of work, rather than a replacement for it.

No — every incorrect answer shows a short explanation of the correct method before your child continues, following the same rule as the correct-answer feedback. For example, on a fractions question about adding 3/8 and 2/8, an incorrect answer explains that when denominators match you add the numerators and keep the denominator the same. The goal is that a wrong answer still teaches something, rather than just being marked and forgotten — a real gap in most auto-marked online quizzes, which usually only reveal the correct answer, not the reasoning.

Yes — UK Year 6 is the first curriculum built, but the site is structured so Year 3, 4 and 5, GCSE and IGCSE, and non-UK curricula (US grades 5-6, Australian Year 6, and Singapore Primary 6) can be added the same way, without changing how the practice pages work. If your child needs a different year group or curriculum right now, it isn't available yet — check back, or use the Daily Challenge and Year 6 topics as general number-sense practice in the meantime.