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.A father is 33 years old and his son is 14. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 2.Take 74 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 3.?816 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 4.43 × 4 =
- 5.What comes next? 14, 23, 32, 41, ? (a) 59 (b) 51 (c) 50 (d) 41
- 6.644 × 10 =
- 7.What comes next? 16, 19, 22, 25, ? (a) 29 (b) 31 (c) 25 (d) 28
- 8.37 × 12 =
- 9.What comes next? 8, 14, 20, 26, ? (a) 38 (b) 32 (c) 26 (d) 33
- 10.234? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 11.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 13 ? | 25 17 9 | 11 21 19. What is the missing number?
- 12.212? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 13.50 × 4 =
- 14.9 × 9 =
- 15.9 × 6 =
- 16.20 × 1000 =
- 17.9 × 9 = 8? — what is the missing digit?
- 18.What comes next? 17, 24, 31, 38, ? (a) 38 (b) 45 (c) 52 (d) 46
- 19.Double 83 =
- 20.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 3. I got 30. What was my number?
- 21.91 × ? = 9100
- 22.If today is Monday, what day was it 53 days ago? (a) Wednesday (b) Friday (c) Sunday (d) Thursday
- 23.12 × 4 =
- 24.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 25.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 ? 9 | 8 6 4 | 3 10 5. What is the missing number?
- 26.Double 31 =
- 27.5 × 9 =
- 28.18 × 4 =
- 29.6 × 4 =
- 30.If today is Wednesday, what day was it 38 days ago? (a) Sunday (b) Saturday (c) Monday (d) Wednesday
- 31.9 × 3 =
- 32.49 × 100 =
- 33.Magic trick! Think of 17. Double it, add 18, halve it, then take away 17. What number do you get?
- 34.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 35.54 × 4 =
- 36.9 × 10 =
- 37.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 55 =
- 38.Magic trick! Think of 7. Double it, add 4, halve it, then take away 7. What number do you get?
- 39.2 × 9 =
- 40.11111 × 11111 =
Answer key
- 19
- 63
- 3
- 172
- 50
- 6440
- 28
- 444
- 32
- 9
- 23
- 4
- 200
- 81
- 54
- 20000
- 1
- 45
- 166
- 9
- 100
- Thursday
- 48
- 2
- 2
- 62
- 45
- 72
- 24
- Sunday
- 27
- 4900
- 9
- 396
- 216
- 90
- 1540
- 2
- 18
- 123454321
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