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.In 6 years a boy will be 14 years old. How old was he 4 years ago?
- 2.A father is 31 years old and his son is 12. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 3.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 4.Double 41 =
- 5.Double 32 =
- 6.A piggy bank has 6 coins of ₹5 and 15 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 7.37 × 21 =
- 8.52 × 4 =
- 9.9 × 10 =
- 10.The ages of two twins add up to 18. How old is each twin?
- 11.40 × 4 =
- 12.11 × 11 =
- 13.18 × 4 =
- 14.74 × 100 =
- 15.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 ? 9 | 6 10 14 | 11 12 7. What is the missing number?
- 16.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 36 =
- 17.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 31 =
- 18.Take 199. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 19.783 × 10 =
- 20.123456 × 8 + 6 =
- 21.44 × 4 =
- 22.37 × 6 =
- 23.56 × 4 =
- 24.495 + 594 =
- 25.I thought of a number, added 2 and then doubled it. I got 36. What was my number?
- 26.12345678 × 8 + 8 =
- 27.A piggy bank has 9 coins of ₹5 and 9 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 28.A father is 41 years old and his son is 9. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 29.19 × 1000 =
- 30.15 × 4 =
- 31.1111 × 1111 =
- 32.Take 69 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 33.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 19 9 | 7 ? 23 | 21 11 13. What is the missing number?
- 34.11 × ? = 11000
- 35.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 16 2 12 | 6 10 14 | ? 18 4. What is the missing number?
- 36.Half of 94 =
- 37.531 × 10 =
- 38.46?8 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 39.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 15 =
- 40.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 2 9 ? | 7 5 3 | 6 1 8. What is the missing number?
Answer key
- 4
- 19
- 198
- 82
- 64
- 60
- 777
- 208
- 90
- 9
- 160
- 121
- 72
- 7400
- 8
- 666
- 256
- 792
- 7830
- 987654
- 176
- 222
- 224
- 1089
- 16
- 98765432
- 63
- 32
- 19000
- 60
- 1234321
- 54
- 15
- 1000
- 8
- 47
- 5310
- 9
- 120
- 4
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