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.Take 50 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 2.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 24 27 12 | 9 ? 33 | 30 15 18. What is the missing number?
- 3.20 × ? = 2000
- 4.Half of 82 =
- 5.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 6.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 27 6 | 9 15 ? | 24 3 18. What is the missing number?
- 7.302? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 8.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 11 =
- 9.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 2 16 | 14 10 ? | 4 18 8. What is the missing number?
- 10.8?48 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 11.12345679 × 9 =
- 12.The ages of two twins add up to 24. How old is each twin?
- 13.Magic trick! Think of 18. Double it, add 4, halve it, then take away 18. What number do you get?
- 14.37 × 21 =
- 15.3?74 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 16.I thought of a number, added 9 and then doubled it. I got 46. What was my number?
- 17.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 18.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 91 =
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 7 8 | 5 9 13 | 10 11 6. What is the missing number?
- 20.38 × 4 =
- 21.1234567 × 9 + 8 =
- 22.The 1st of a month is a Sunday. What day is the 30th of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Sunday (c) Monday (d) Thursday
- 23.10 × 9 =
- 24.Take 20 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 25.12345679 × 54 =
- 26.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 27.37 × 12 =
- 28.119 × ? = 1190
- 29.9 × 9 =
- 30.I thought of a number, added 8 and then doubled it. I got 54. What was my number?
- 31.172 × 10 =
- 32.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 21 =
- 33.9 × 3 =
- 34.884 × 10 =
- 35.9 × 8 =
- 36.Take 89 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 37.6 × 4 =
- 38.12 × 9 + 3 =
- 39.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 60 (b) 81 (c) 70 (d) 80
- 40.123 × 8 + 3 =
Answer key
- 45
- 21
- 100
- 41
- 693
- 21
- 4
- 66
- 6
- 7
- 111111111
- 12
- 2
- 777
- 4
- 14
- 2
- 4186
- 12
- 152
- 11111111
- Monday
- 90
- 18
- 666666666
- 5
- 444
- 10
- 81
- 19
- 1720
- 121
- 27
- 8840
- 72
- 72
- 24
- 111
- 80
- 987
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