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
- 1.9 × 9 = 8? — what is the missing digit?
- 2.Double 74 =
- 3.A piggy bank has 6 coins of ₹5 and 15 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 4.Half of 94 =
- 5.Half of 34 =
- 6.12345679 × 45 =
- 7.You have 13 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹20. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 8.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 9.13 × 4 =
- 10.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 70 (b) 60 (c) 81 (d) 80
- 11.I thought of a number, added 8 and then doubled it. I got 22. What was my number?
- 12.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 18 13 | 16 ? 12 | 15 10 17. What is the missing number?
- 13.46 × 100 =
- 14.33 × 4 =
- 15.11111 × 11111 =
- 16.Half of 142 =
- 17.231 × ? = 2310
- 18.53 × 100 =
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 24 9 30 | 27 21 15 | ? 33 18. What is the missing number?
- 20.In 5 years a boy will be 18 years old. How old was he 2 years ago?
- 21.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 13 =
- 22.Do the 1089 trick with 931: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 23.The ages of two twins add up to 18. How old is each twin?
- 24.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 25.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 26.If today is Sunday, what day was it 56 days ago? (a) Monday (b) Saturday (c) Sunday (d) Wednesday
- 27.31 × 4 =
- 28.1111 × 1111 =
- 29.6 × 9 =
- 30.16 × 4 =
- 31.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 32.Double 19 =
- 33.12 × 9 + 3 =
- 34.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 35.Take 947. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 36.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 10 15 | ? 14 16 | 13 18 11. What is the missing number?
- 37.What comes next? 4, 12, 20, 28, ? (a) 44 (b) 36 (c) 37 (d) 28
- 38.A father is 36 years old and his son is 6. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 39.3?6 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 40.56 × 4 =
Answer key
- 1
- 148
- 60
- 47
- 17
- 555555555
- 7
- 495
- 52
- 80
- 3
- 14
- 4600
- 132
- 123454321
- 71
- 10
- 5300
- 12
- 11
- 49
- 1089
- 9
- 1
- 2
- Sunday
- 124
- 1234321
- 54
- 64
- 2
- 38
- 111
- 198
- 198
- 12
- 36
- 30
- 9
- 224
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