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
- 1.7 × 9 =
- 2.A girl is 5 years old and her brother is 3 years older. How old will her brother be in 8 years?
- 3.51 × 100 =
- 4.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 6 7 ? | 1 5 9 | 8 3 4. What is the missing number?
- 5.Double 91 =
- 6.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 27 17 | 23 19 15 | 21 ? 25. What is the missing number?
- 7.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 8.9 × 4 =
- 9.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 10.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 2 ? | 8 6 4 | 3 10 5. What is the missing number?
- 11.Half of 116 =
- 12.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 80 =
- 13.Magic trick! Think of 14. Double it, add 4, halve it, then take away 14. What number do you get?
- 14.Think of 10. Multiply it by 2, then add 1. What number do you end with?
- 15.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 7 8 | 5 9 ? | 10 11 6. What is the missing number?
- 16.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 17.Double 99 =
- 18.?186 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 19.552 × 10 =
- 20.Double 28 =
- 21.?583 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 22.I thought of a number, added 3 and then doubled it. I got 16. What was my number?
- 23.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 24.Think of 8. Multiply it by 5, then add 3. What number do you end with?
- 25.7?8 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 26.3?02 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 27.I thought of a number, added 4 and then doubled it. I got 32. What was my number?
- 28.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 29 14 | 23 ? 11 | 20 5 26. What is the missing number?
- 29.Do the 1089 trick with 770: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 30.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 31.22?8 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 32.45 × 100 =
- 33.If today is Monday, what day was it 14 days ago? (a) Tuesday (b) Sunday (c) Monday (d) Thursday
- 34.8 × 9 =
- 35.5 × 9 =
- 36.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 24 (b) 28 (c) 32 (d) 33
- 37.12345678 × 8 + 8 =
- 38.Take 270. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.I thought of a number, added 7 and then doubled it. I got 44. What was my number?
- 40.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
Answer key
- 63
- 16
- 5100
- 2
- 182
- 11
- 198
- 36
- 8
- 9
- 58
- 3240
- 2
- 21
- 13
- 6
- 198
- 3
- 5520
- 56
- 2
- 5
- 0
- 43
- 3
- 4
- 12
- 17
- 1089
- 5
- 6
- 4500
- Monday
- 72
- 45
- 32
- 98765432
- 198
- 15
- 4
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