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 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 2.A father is 36 years old and his son is 12. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 29 26 | ? 23 11 | 20 17 32. What is the missing number?
- 4.9 × 8 =
- 5.6 × 4 =
- 6.I thought of a number, added 6 and then doubled it. I got 18. What was my number?
- 7.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 8.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 15 =
- 9.12 × 9 + 3 =
- 10.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 18 =
- 11.34 × 4 =
- 12.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 13.97 × 100 =
- 14.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 15.Do the 1089 trick with 792: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 16.Double 66 =
- 17.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 18.11 × 11 =
- 19.Half of 14 =
- 20.1 × 9 =
- 21.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 30 15 | 24 18 12 | ? 6 27. What is the missing number?
- 22.860 × 10 =
- 23.18 × 4 =
- 24.Do the 1089 trick with 930: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 25.7 × 4 =
- 26.Take 198. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 27.21 × 1000 =
- 28.10 × 9 =
- 29.Do the 1089 trick with 169: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 30.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 1. I got 15. What was my number?
- 31.111 × 111 =
- 32.Think of 3. Multiply it by 3, then add 3. What number do you end with?
- 33.1234 × 9 + 5 =
- 34.83 × 100 =
- 35.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 36.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 6 times table? (a) 20 (b) 12 (c) 42 (d) 30
- 37.130? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 38.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 23 =
- 39.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 11 =
- 40.What comes next? 14, 21, 28, 35, ? (a) 35 (b) 42 (c) 49 (d) 43
Answer key
- 1
- 24
- 35
- 72
- 24
- 3
- 4
- 64
- 111
- 171
- 136
- 891
- 9700
- 4
- 1089
- 132
- 3
- 121
- 7
- 9
- 21
- 8600
- 72
- 1089
- 28
- 693
- 21000
- 90
- 1089
- 7
- 12321
- 12
- 11111
- 8300
- 8
- 20
- 5
- 144
- 66
- 42
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