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
- 1.90 × 100 =
- 2.693 + 396 =
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 2 9 4 | 7 5 3 | 6 ? 8. What is the missing number?
- 4.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 25 15 | ? 17 13 | 19 9 23. What is the missing number?
- 5.Take 75 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 6.Half of 104 =
- 7.Magic trick! Think of 19. Double it, add 16, halve it, then take away 19. What number do you get?
- 8.What comes next? 16, 18, 20, 22, ? (a) 25 (b) 22 (c) 26 (d) 24
- 9.59?2 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 10.Half of 42 =
- 11.12345678 × 8 + 8 =
- 12.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 13.The ages of two twins add up to 26. How old is each twin?
- 14.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 17 days? (a) Wednesday (b) Monday (c) Friday (d) Tuesday
- 15.Double 12 =
- 16.Double 54 =
- 17.Half of 148 =
- 18.52 × 4 =
- 19.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 20.What comes next? 13, 15, 17, 19, ? (a) 22 (b) 21 (c) 23 (d) 19
- 21.The 5th of a month is a Sunday. What day is the 25th of the same month? (a) Friday (b) Saturday (c) Sunday (d) Tuesday
- 22.198 + 891 =
- 23.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 24.7?96 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 25.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 12 7 | ? 10 14 | 13 8 9. What is the missing number?
- 26.If today is Tuesday, what day will it be after 29 days? (a) Thursday (b) Wednesday (c) Tuesday (d) Saturday
- 27.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 44 days? (a) Thursday (b) Saturday (c) Wednesday (d) Tuesday
- 28.76?2 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 29.2 × 9 =
- 30.I thought of a number, added 1 and then doubled it. I got 10. What was my number?
- 31.10 × 9 =
- 32.Double 69 =
- 33.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 33 (b) 24 (c) 28 (d) 32
- 34.997 × ? = 9970
- 35.Take 72 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 36.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 33 18 21 | 12 24 36 | ? 30 15. What is the missing number?
- 37.Half of 64 =
- 38.7 × 9 =
- 39.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 40.What comes next? 4, 9, 16, 25, ? (a) 34 (b) 37 (c) 38 (d) 36
Answer key
- 9000
- 1089
- 1
- 21
- 63
- 52
- 8
- 24
- 2
- 21
- 98765432
- 8
- 13
- Tuesday
- 24
- 108
- 74
- 208
- 7
- 21
- Saturday
- 1089
- 0
- 5
- 6
- Wednesday
- Wednesday
- 3
- 18
- 4
- 90
- 138
- 32
- 10
- 63
- 27
- 32
- 63
- 2
- 36
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