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.If today is Tuesday, what day was it 42 days ago? (a) Wednesday (b) Friday (c) Monday (d) Tuesday
- 3.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 13 =
- 4.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 59 days? (a) Thursday (b) Saturday (c) Tuesday (d) Wednesday
- 5.242 × 10 =
- 6.What comes next? 16, 25, 36, 49, ? (a) 62 (b) 65 (c) 66 (d) 64
- 7.A piggy bank has 12 coins of ₹5 and 14 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 8.1234 × 8 + 4 =
- 9.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 19 5 15 | 9 13 17 | 11 21 ?. What is the missing number?
- 10.495 + 594 =
- 11.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 6 11 4 | 5 7 ? | 10 3 8. What is the missing number?
- 12.12345679 × 54 =
- 13.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 7 12 | 9 11 13 | 10 15 8. What is the missing number?
- 14.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 5 20 | 11 17 23 | 14 29 8. What is the missing number?
- 15.45 × 4 =
- 16.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 33 =
- 17.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 27 =
- 18.9 × 1000 =
- 19.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 97 =
- 20.11111 × 11111 =
- 21.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 ? 22 | 31 19 7 | 16 13 28. What is the missing number?
- 22.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 5 times table? (a) 31 (b) 25 (c) 20 (d) 15
- 23.What comes next? 3, 6, 12, 24, ? (a) 48 (b) 42 (c) 49 (d) 36
- 24.Do the 1089 trick with 705: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 25.Take 48 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 26.Half of 182 =
- 27.Take 17 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 28.40 × 4 =
- 29.Take 803. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 30.55 × 4 =
- 31.Do the 1089 trick with 880: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 32.26 × 4 =
- 33.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 6 27 12 | 21 ? 9 | 18 3 24. What is the missing number?
- 34.7 × 9 =
- 35.85 × 100 =
- 36.Magic trick! Think of 7. Double it, add 18, halve it, then take away 7. What number do you get?
- 37.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 48 =
- 38.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 17 15 | ? 13 5 | 11 9 19. What is the missing number?
- 39.289 × 10 =
- 40.1234 × 9 + 5 =
Answer key
- 1
- Tuesday
- 91
- Wednesday
- 2420
- 64
- 88
- 9876
- 7
- 1089
- 9
- 666666666
- 14
- 26
- 180
- 289
- 196
- 9000
- 4753
- 123454321
- 25
- 31
- 48
- 1089
- 36
- 91
- 9
- 160
- 495
- 220
- 1089
- 104
- 15
- 63
- 8500
- 9
- 1176
- 21
- 2890
- 11111
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