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 890. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 2.I thought of a number, added 5 and then doubled it. I got 34. What was my number?
- 3.41 × ? = 4100
- 4.630 × 10 =
- 5.1 × 9 =
- 6.Take 86 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 7.617 × 10 =
- 8.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 11 =
- 9.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 15 ? | 9 13 17 | 16 11 12. What is the missing number?
- 10.666 × 10 =
- 11.12 × 4 =
- 12.Do the 1089 trick with 925: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 13.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 92 =
- 14.9 × 1000 =
- 15.Take 650. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 16.71?7 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 17.12 × 9 + 3 =
- 18.9 × 8 =
- 19.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 20.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 21.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 14 ? | 16 12 8 | 11 10 15. What is the missing number?
- 22.Double 81 =
- 23.The 7th of a month is a Thursday. What day is the 26th of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Friday (c) Monday (d) Wednesday
- 24.702 × 10 =
- 25.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 41 =
- 26.37 × 15 =
- 27.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 30 9 | 12 ? 24 | 27 6 21. What is the missing number?
- 28.Half of 174 =
- 29.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 25 4 19 | 10 ? 22 | 13 28 7. What is the missing number?
- 30.9 × 7 =
- 31.3 × 9 =
- 32.79 × ? = 7900
- 33.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 34.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 35.The 1st of a month is a Friday. What day is the 16th of the same month? (a) Sunday (b) Saturday (c) Tuesday (d) Friday
- 36.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 86 =
- 37.Do the 1089 trick with 129: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 38.A father is 34 years old and his son is 8. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 39.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 40.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
Answer key
- 792
- 12
- 100
- 6300
- 9
- 72
- 6170
- 66
- 10
- 6660
- 48
- 1089
- 4278
- 9000
- 594
- 3
- 111
- 72
- 8
- 396
- 13
- 162
- Tuesday
- 7020
- 441
- 555
- 18
- 87
- 16
- 63
- 27
- 100
- 8
- 7
- Saturday
- 3741
- 1089
- 26
- 7
- 594
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