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.
NameDateTime takenScore ___ / 40
- 1.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 98 =
- 2.104 × 10 =
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 7 17 | 19 11 3 | 5 15 ?. What is the missing number?
- 4.15 × 4 =
- 5.A piggy bank has 11 coins of ₹5 and 3 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 6.Take 204. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 7.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 8.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 9.12345679 × 18 =
- 10.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 5 6 | 3 7 11 | 8 ? 4. What is the missing number?
- 11.Think of 8. Multiply it by 2, then add 7. What number do you end with?
- 12.In 6 years a boy will be 15 years old. How old was he 2 years ago?
- 13.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 ? 8 | 5 9 13 | 10 11 6. What is the missing number?
- 14.Half of 152 =
- 15.Do the 1089 trick with 703: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 16.9 × 1 =
- 17.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 18.66 × 100 =
- 19.22 × 10 =
- 20.9 × 5 =
- 21.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 32 17 20 | 11 23 35 | 26 ? 14. What is the missing number?
- 22.9 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 23.Do the 1089 trick with 910: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 24.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 25.Take 305. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 26.I thought of a number, added 3 and then doubled it. I got 12. What was my number?
- 27.I thought of a number, added 9 and then doubled it. I got 58. What was my number?
- 28.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 7 times table? (a) 25 (b) 21 (c) 35 (d) 42
- 29.4 × 9 =
- 30.9 × 6 =
- 31.Do the 1089 trick with 701: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 32.A girl is 12 years old and her brother is 5 years older. How old will her brother be in 9 years?
- 33.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 5. I got 61. What was my number?
- 34.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 17 (b) 12 (c) 16 (d) 14
- 35.9 × 2 =
- 36.43 × 4 =
- 37.396 + 693 =
- 38.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 19 =
- 39.37 × 27 =
- 40.65 × 10 =
Answer key
- 4851
- 1040
- 13
- 60
- 61
- 198
- 8
- 4
- 222222222
- 9
- 23
- 7
- 7
- 76
- 1089
- 9
- 4
- 6600
- 220
- 45
- 29
- 6
- 1089
- 396
- 198
- 3
- 20
- 25
- 36
- 54
- 1089
- 26
- 14
- 16
- 18
- 172
- 1089
- 100
- 999
- 650
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