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.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 ? 5 | 2 6 10 | 7 8 3. What is the missing number?
- 2.547? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 3.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 58 =
- 4.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 8. I got 36. What was my number?
- 5.Think of 15. Multiply it by 2, then add 9. What number do you end with?
- 6.37 × 6 =
- 7.Magic trick! Think of 9. Double it, add 14, halve it, then take away 9. What number do you get?
- 8.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 3 times table? (a) 18 (b) 9 (c) 19 (d) 21
- 9.96 × 100 =
- 10.123456 × 9 + 7 =
- 11.If today is Tuesday, what day will it be after 81 days? (a) Saturday (b) Friday (c) Tuesday (d) Sunday
- 12.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 ? 15 | 18 14 10 | 13 12 17. What is the missing number?
- 13.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 17 =
- 14.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 8 times table? (a) 40 (b) 34 (c) 16 (d) 24
- 15.2?3 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 16.550 × ? = 5500
- 17.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 18.93 × 100 =
- 19.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 20.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 5 ? | 3 7 11 | 8 9 4. What is the missing number?
- 21.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 11 21 | 23 15 7 | 9 19 ?. What is the missing number?
- 22.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 8 times table? (a) 32 (b) 27 (c) 40 (d) 48
- 23.15 × 1000 =
- 24.If today is Tuesday, what day will it be after 14 days? (a) Friday (b) Tuesday (c) Wednesday (d) Monday
- 25.12345679 × 63 =
- 26.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 27.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 28.Half of 32 =
- 29.21 × 100 =
- 30.Take 32 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 31.413? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 32.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 33.Do the 1089 trick with 511: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 34.123 × 9 + 4 =
- 35.12345 × 9 + 6 =
- 36.Double 36 =
- 37.18 × 4 =
- 38.47 × 1000 =
- 39.33 × 4 =
- 40.In 6 years a boy will be 19 years old. How old was he 2 years ago?
Answer key
- 4
- 2
- 1711
- 7
- 39
- 222
- 7
- 19
- 9600
- 1111111
- Saturday
- 16
- 153
- 34
- 4
- 10
- 9
- 9300
- 594
- 6
- 17
- 27
- 15000
- Tuesday
- 777777777
- 8
- 1
- 16
- 2100
- 27
- 1
- 5
- 1089
- 1111
- 111111
- 72
- 72
- 47000
- 132
- 11
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