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.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 2.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 6 =
- 3.1?71 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 4.10 × 9 =
- 5.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 81 (b) 60 (c) 80 (d) 70
- 6.A piggy bank has 11 coins of ₹5 and 15 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 7.Magic trick! Think of 5. Double it, add 14, halve it, then take away 5. What number do you get?
- 8.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 9.9 × 4 =
- 10.9 × 5 = 4? — what is the missing digit?
- 11.46? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 12.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 32 (b) 24 (c) 28 (d) 33
- 13.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 3 10 | 9 7 5 | 4 11 6. What is the missing number?
- 14.693 + 396 =
- 15.A father is 31 years old and his son is 6. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 16.30 × ? = 3000
- 17.Do the 1089 trick with 590: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 18.336 × 10 =
- 19.A father is 39 years old and his son is 4. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 20.7 × 9 =
- 21.Double 31 =
- 22.2 × 9 =
- 23.Take 864. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 24.9 × 9 =
- 25.347 × 10 =
- 26.Take 719. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 27.891 + 198 =
- 28.34 × 4 =
- 29.40 × 4 =
- 30.?457 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 31.11 × 11 =
- 32.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 5 12 | 11 9 7 | ? 13 8. What is the missing number?
- 33.8?06 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 34.The 8th of a month is a Saturday. What day is the 29th of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Sunday (c) Saturday (d) Friday
- 35.Think of 5. Multiply it by 3, then add 1. What number do you end with?
- 36.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 37.What comes next? 8, 10, 12, 14, ? (a) 18 (b) 14 (c) 16 (d) 17
- 38.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 3. I got 38. What was my number?
- 39.I thought of a number, added 7 and then doubled it. I got 50. What was my number?
- 40.A girl is 6 years old and her brother is 2 years older. How old will her brother be in 4 years?
Answer key
- 891
- 21
- 9
- 90
- 80
- 85
- 7
- 2
- 36
- 5
- 8
- 32
- 8
- 1089
- 25
- 100
- 1089
- 3360
- 35
- 63
- 62
- 18
- 396
- 81
- 3470
- 198
- 1089
- 136
- 160
- 2
- 121
- 6
- 4
- Saturday
- 16
- 7
- 16
- 7
- 18
- 12
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