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
- 1.55 × 4 =
- 2.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 16 14 24 | 26 18 10 | 12 ? 20. What is the missing number?
- 4.46 × 4 =
- 5.If today is Wednesday, what day was it 20 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Thursday (c) Wednesday (d) Sunday
- 6.654 × 10 =
- 7.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 21 =
- 8.9 × 9 = 8? — what is the missing digit?
- 9.Double 12 =
- 10.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 8. I got 53. What was my number?
- 11.Double 82 =
- 12.The 8th of a month is a Tuesday. What day is the 18th of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Monday (c) Friday (d) Saturday
- 13.495 + 594 =
- 14.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 7 12 | 9 ? 13 | 10 15 8. What is the missing number?
- 15.9 × 4 =
- 16.27 × 4 =
- 17.37 × 24 =
- 18.Magic trick! Think of 20. Double it, add 16, halve it, then take away 20. What number do you get?
- 19.71 × 10 =
- 20.Take 99 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 21.?575 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 22.Take 274. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 23.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 24.36 × 4 =
- 25.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 26.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 9 16 | 15 13 11 | 10 17 12. What is the missing number?
- 27.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 69 =
- 28.9 × 5 = 4? — what is the missing digit?
- 29.2 × 9 =
- 30.The ages of two twins add up to 24. How old is each twin?
- 31.19 × 4 =
- 32.230 × 10 =
- 33.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 70 (b) 80 (c) 81 (d) 60
- 34.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 35.Take 13 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 36.In 5 years a boy will be 19 years old. How old was he 7 years ago?
- 37.11 × 11 =
- 38.What comes next? 4, 12, 20, 28, ? (a) 44 (b) 36 (c) 37 (d) 28
- 39.76 × 100 =
- 40.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 12 days? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Wednesday (d) Thursday
Answer key
- 220
- 1
- 22
- 184
- Thursday
- 6540
- 121
- 1
- 24
- 15
- 164
- Friday
- 1089
- 11
- 36
- 108
- 888
- 8
- 710
- 81
- 1
- 198
- 891
- 144
- 594
- 14
- 2415
- 5
- 18
- 12
- 76
- 2300
- 80
- 8
- 9
- 7
- 121
- 36
- 7600
- Thursday
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