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 trick! Think of 5. Double it, add 4, halve it, then take away 5. What number do you get?
- 2.275? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 3.5 × 1000 =
- 4.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 15 =
- 5.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 16 18 8 | 6 ? 22 | 20 10 12. What is the missing number?
- 6.9 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 7.Take 28 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 8.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 6 times table? (a) 12 (b) 34 (c) 36 (d) 24
- 9.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 10.52 × 4 =
- 11.?99 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 12.The 5th of a month is a Sunday. What day is the 15th of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Saturday (c) Thursday (d) Wednesday
- 13.?654 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 14.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 15.Double 85 =
- 16.9 × 4 =
- 17.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 18.Take 910. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 19.?69 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 20.Magic trick! Think of 12. Double it, add 10, halve it, then take away 12. What number do you get?
- 21.4 × 9 =
- 22.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 30 27 | 36 24 12 | 21 18 33. What is the missing number?
- 23.Half of 126 =
- 24.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 25.The ages of two twins add up to 18. How old is each twin?
- 26.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 26 5 20 | 11 17 23 | 14 ? 8. What is the missing number?
- 27.?591 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 28.What comes next? 16, 25, 36, 49, ? (a) 66 (b) 65 (c) 62 (d) 64
- 29.65 × 100 =
- 30.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 8 18 | 20 ? 4 | 6 16 14. What is the missing number?
- 31.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 7. I got 46. What was my number?
- 32.Think of 13. Multiply it by 5, then add 5. What number do you end with?
- 33.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 58 =
- 34.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 35.111 × 111 =
- 36.Double 28 =
- 37.143? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 38.12345679 × 54 =
- 39.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 6 21 18 | 27 ? 3 | 12 9 24. What is the missing number?
- 40.3?62 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
Answer key
- 2
- 4
- 5000
- 64
- 14
- 6
- 18
- 34
- 7
- 208
- 9
- Wednesday
- 3
- 693
- 170
- 36
- 3
- 891
- 3
- 5
- 36
- 15
- 63
- 6
- 9
- 29
- 3
- 64
- 6500
- 12
- 13
- 70
- 1711
- 0
- 12321
- 56
- 1
- 666666666
- 15
- 7
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