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.
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- 1.Take 16 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 2.Magic trick! Think of 10. Double it, add 10, halve it, then take away 10. What number do you get?
- 3.12345679 × 27 =
- 4.I thought of a number, added 3 and then doubled it. I got 14. What was my number?
- 5.In 4 years a boy will be 17 years old. How old was he 6 years ago?
- 6.1111 × 1111 =
- 7.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 8.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 9.What comes next? 3, 6, 12, 24, ? (a) 48 (b) 42 (c) 49 (d) 36
- 10.9 × 7 =
- 11.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 7. I got 67. What was my number?
- 12.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 8 15 | 14 12 10 | 9 16 ?. What is the missing number?
- 13.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 14.If today is Wednesday, what day was it 40 days ago? (a) Thursday (b) Monday (c) Friday (d) Saturday
- 15.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 16.33 × 4 =
- 17.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 22 =
- 18.13 × 4 =
- 19.I thought of a number, added 6 and then doubled it. I got 22. What was my number?
- 20.12 × 1000 =
- 21.The ages of two twins add up to 26. How old is each twin?
- 22.Double 51 =
- 23.12345679 × 9 =
- 24.I thought of a number, added 1 and then doubled it. I got 14. What was my number?
- 25.Do the 1089 trick with 722: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 26.56 × 4 =
- 27.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 5. I got 75. What was my number?
- 28.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 3 ? | 9 7 5 | 4 11 6. What is the missing number?
- 29.6 × 1000 =
- 30.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 7. I got 67. What was my number?
- 31.Double 12 =
- 32.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 45 =
- 33.1234567 × 9 + 8 =
- 34.Double 25 =
- 35.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 36.Double 21 =
- 37.Half of 104 =
- 38.The ages of two twins add up to 10. How old is each twin?
- 39.Do the 1089 trick with 290: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 40.You have 6 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹10. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
Answer key
- 9
- 5
- 333333333
- 4
- 7
- 1234321
- 198
- 6
- 48
- 63
- 15
- 11
- 891
- Friday
- 0
- 132
- 253
- 52
- 5
- 12000
- 13
- 102
- 111111111
- 6
- 1089
- 224
- 14
- 10
- 6000
- 12
- 24
- 1035
- 11111111
- 50
- 396
- 42
- 52
- 5
- 1089
- 4
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