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.Do the 1089 trick with 920: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 2.8 × 9 =
- 3.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 3 times table? (a) 12 (b) 24 (c) 15 (d) 11
- 4.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 21 =
- 5.What comes next? 4, 9, 16, 25, ? (a) 38 (b) 34 (c) 36 (d) 37
- 6.What comes next? 12, 15, 18, 21, ? (a) 25 (b) 21 (c) 24 (d) 27
- 7.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 8.What comes next? 11, 19, 27, 35, ? (a) 51 (b) 44 (c) 43 (d) 35
- 9.2?0 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 10.11 × 11 =
- 11.The 8th of a month is a Sunday. What day is the 26th of the same month? (a) Sunday (b) Thursday (c) Friday (d) Wednesday
- 12.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 17 =
- 13.What comes next? 2, 6, 10, 14, ? (a) 19 (b) 14 (c) 18 (d) 22
- 14.37 × 6 =
- 15.Think of 9. Multiply it by 4, then add 2. What number do you end with?
- 16.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 93 days? (a) Friday (b) Wednesday (c) Tuesday (d) Monday
- 17.The 8th of a month is a Monday. What day is the 18th of the same month? (a) Wednesday (b) Friday (c) Thursday (d) Sunday
- 18.Think of 14. Multiply it by 4, then add 6. What number do you end with?
- 19.Magic trick! Think of 5. Double it, add 4, halve it, then take away 5. What number do you get?
- 20.Half of 122 =
- 21.27 × 4 =
- 22.63?5 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 23.Half of 16 =
- 24.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 17 (b) 16 (c) 12 (d) 14
- 25.68?5 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 26.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 27.Take 953. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 28.69 × 100 =
- 29.Do the 1089 trick with 900: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 30.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 4 times table? (a) 16 (b) 17 (c) 24 (d) 20
- 31.396 + 693 =
- 32.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 6 times table? (a) 18 (b) 12 (c) 35 (d) 30
- 33.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 64 =
- 34.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 75 days? (a) Friday (b) Thursday (c) Wednesday (d) Sunday
- 35.9 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 36.67?2 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 37.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 4 times table? (a) 20 (b) 32 (c) 8 (d) 37
- 38.9 × 5 =
- 39.56 × 4 =
- 40.Half of 18 =
Answer key
- 1089
- 72
- 11
- 121
- 36
- 24
- 8
- 43
- 7
- 121
- Thursday
- 153
- 18
- 222
- 38
- Tuesday
- Thursday
- 62
- 2
- 61
- 108
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 8
- 297
- 594
- 6900
- 1089
- 17
- 1089
- 35
- 2080
- Thursday
- 6
- 3
- 37
- 45
- 224
- 9
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