Maths Tricks Practice Worksheet
The trick (Choose a trick): × 9 → finger trick; × 4 → double double; × 10, 100, 1000 → slide and add zeros. 37, 12345679 or 111… → magic patterns; reverse and subtract → 1089. Puzzles: find the rule, the total or the leftover days, then check your answer.
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- 1.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 10 15 | 12 14 ? | 13 18 11. What is the missing number?
- 2.Do the 1089 trick with 845: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 3.Double 81 =
- 4.A girl is 9 years old and her brother is 3 years older. How old will her brother be in 8 years?
- 5.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 6.A girl is 11 years old and her brother is 5 years older. How old will her brother be in 4 years?
- 7.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 8.Take 920. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 9.9 × 3 =
- 10.32 × 100 =
- 11.Double 53 =
- 12.If today is Wednesday, what day was it 32 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Tuesday (c) Saturday (d) Sunday
- 13.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 14.49 × 4 =
- 15.Double 41 =
- 16.Think of 11. Multiply it by 3, then add 1. What number do you end with?
- 17.I thought of a number, added 2 and then doubled it. I got 18. What was my number?
- 18.Take 810. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 16 18 ? | 6 14 22 | 20 10 12. What is the missing number?
- 20.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 21.A father is 42 years old and his son is 5. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 22.37 × 24 =
- 23.37 × 6 =
- 24.10 × 9 =
- 25.Half of 112 =
- 26.You have 8 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹12. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 27.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 28.41 × 4 =
- 29.Half of 156 =
- 30.Take 138. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 31.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 7 12 | 9 11 13 | ? 15 8. What is the missing number?
- 32.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 13 =
- 33.Half of 14 =
- 34.The ages of two twins add up to 28. How old is each twin?
- 35.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 31 =
- 36.4 × 9 =
- 37.In 3 years a boy will be 16 years old. How old was he 7 years ago?
- 38.Take 85 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 39.2?22 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 40.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
Answer key
- 16
- 1089
- 162
- 20
- 891
- 20
- 1
- 891
- 27
- 3200
- 106
- Saturday
- 8
- 196
- 82
- 34
- 7
- 792
- 8
- 2
- 37
- 888
- 222
- 90
- 56
- 4
- 594
- 164
- 78
- 693
- 10
- 49
- 7
- 14
- 256
- 36
- 6
- 72
- 3
- 8
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