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.Double 65 =
- 2.4 × 9 =
- 3.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 6 times table? (a) 12 (b) 39 (c) 18 (d) 24
- 4.Think of 5. Multiply it by 3, then add 5. What number do you end with?
- 5.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 61 days? (a) Friday (b) Monday (c) Thursday (d) Saturday
- 6.Magic trick! Think of 16. Double it, add 12, halve it, then take away 16. What number do you get?
- 7.If today is Saturday, what day was it 14 days ago? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Tuesday (d) Saturday
- 8.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 9.594 + 495 =
- 10.Double 51 =
- 11.What comes next? 4, 9, 16, 25, ? (a) 38 (b) 37 (c) 36 (d) 34
- 12.If today is Thursday, what day will it be after 65 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Sunday (c) Friday (d) Saturday
- 13.Think of 10. Multiply it by 5, then add 3. What number do you end with?
- 14.The 1st of a month is a Thursday. What day is the 9th of the same month? (a) Friday (b) Saturday (c) Monday (d) Thursday
- 15.A father is 34 years old and his son is 14. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 16.39 × 4 =
- 17.37 × 6 =
- 18.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 3. I got 58. What was my number?
- 19.11111 × 11111 =
- 20.If today is Wednesday, what day was it 43 days ago? (a) Monday (b) Tuesday (c) Wednesday (d) Friday
- 21.43 × 4 =
- 22.111 × 111 =
- 23.123456 × 9 + 7 =
- 24.46 × 4 =
- 25.50 × 1000 =
- 26.Magic trick! Think of 3. Double it, add 12, halve it, then take away 3. What number do you get?
- 27.I thought of a number, added 1 and then doubled it. I got 20. What was my number?
- 28.1 × 9 =
- 29.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 71 =
- 30.If today is Tuesday, what day was it 45 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Tuesday (c) Saturday (d) Sunday
- 31.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 32.If today is Wednesday, what day will it be after 53 days? (a) Wednesday (b) Sunday (c) Saturday (d) Monday
- 33.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 34.What comes next? 12, 16, 20, 24, ? (a) 29 (b) 32 (c) 24 (d) 28
- 35.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 11 25 | 23 19 15 | 13 27 17. What is the missing number?
- 36.123456 × 8 + 6 =
- 37.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 14 7 | 8 10 ? | 13 6 11. What is the missing number?
- 38.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 ? 9 | 8 6 4 | 3 10 5. What is the missing number?
- 39.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 40.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 6 11 4 | ? 7 9 | 10 3 8. What is the missing number?
Answer key
- 130
- 36
- 39
- 20
- Friday
- 6
- Saturday
- 0
- 1089
- 102
- 36
- Saturday
- 53
- Friday
- 20
- 156
- 222
- 11
- 123454321
- Tuesday
- 172
- 12321
- 1111111
- 184
- 50000
- 6
- 9
- 9
- 2556
- Saturday
- 2
- Sunday
- 792
- 28
- 21
- 987654
- 12
- 2
- 7
- 5
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