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.What comes next? 4, 11, 18, 25, ? (a) 25 (b) 32 (c) 39 (d) 33
- 2.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 3.What comes next? 3, 6, 12, 24, ? (a) 48 (b) 36 (c) 49 (d) 42
- 4.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 15 ? | 9 11 13 | 14 7 12. What is the missing number?
- 5.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 39 =
- 6.51 × 4 =
- 7.29 × 4 =
- 8.In 5 years a boy will be 15 years old. How old was he 2 years ago?
- 9.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 26 11 32 | 29 23 17 | 14 35 ?. What is the missing number?
- 10.39 × 4 =
- 11.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 11 14 | 5 17 29 | 20 23 8. What is the missing number?
- 12.9 × 1 =
- 13.139 × 10 =
- 14.What comes next? 16, 25, 36, 49, ? (a) 66 (b) 65 (c) 62 (d) 64
- 15.37 × 9 =
- 16.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 88 =
- 17.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 18.20 × 4 =
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 8 ? | 20 12 4 | 6 16 14. What is the missing number?
- 20.Do the 1089 trick with 770: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 21.Do the 1089 trick with 791: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 22.The 2nd of a month is a Monday. What day is the 21st of the same month? (a) Friday (b) Tuesday (c) Sunday (d) Saturday
- 23.123456 × 8 + 6 =
- 24.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 25.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 9 14 | 15 11 7 | 8 13 ?. What is the missing number?
- 26.9 × 9 =
- 27.Do the 1089 trick with 468: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 28.12 × 100 =
- 29.Magic trick! Think of 2. Double it, add 8, halve it, then take away 2. What number do you get?
- 30.Take 487. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 31.237? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 32.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 33.8 × 4 =
- 34.The 1st of a month is a Monday. What day is the 23rd of the same month? (a) Friday (b) Tuesday (c) Monday (d) Wednesday
- 35.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 4. I got 32. What was my number?
- 36.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 3. I got 51. What was my number?
- 37.The 5th of a month is a Thursday. What day is the 23rd of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Tuesday (c) Sunday (d) Monday
- 38.Take 541. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 26 5 20 | 11 17 23 | ? 29 8. What is the missing number?
- 40.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 6 times table? (a) 12 (b) 19 (c) 24 (d) 18
Answer key
- 32
- 6
- 48
- 8
- 400
- 204
- 116
- 8
- 20
- 156
- 26
- 9
- 1390
- 64
- 333
- 3916
- 5
- 80
- 18
- 1089
- 1089
- Saturday
- 987654
- 3
- 12
- 81
- 1089
- 1200
- 4
- 297
- 6
- 2
- 32
- Tuesday
- 14
- 12
- Monday
- 396
- 14
- 19
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