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.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 8 13 | 10 ? 14 | 11 16 9. What is the missing number?
- 2.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 7 times table? (a) 20 (b) 56 (c) 49 (d) 28
- 3.What comes next? 19, 24, 29, 34, ? (a) 44 (b) 40 (c) 34 (d) 39
- 4.11111 × 11111 =
- 5.9 × 8 =
- 6.Double 73 =
- 7.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 19 5 15 | 9 13 17 | 11 ? 7. What is the missing number?
- 8.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 9.What comes next? 8, 13, 18, 23, ? (a) 33 (b) 23 (c) 29 (d) 28
- 10.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 9 14 | 15 11 7 | 8 ? 12. What is the missing number?
- 11.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 21 23 13 | 11 19 27 | 25 ? 17. What is the missing number?
- 12.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 13.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 20 23 ? | 5 17 29 | 26 11 14. What is the missing number?
- 14.Double 58 =
- 15.9 × 9 =
- 16.The ages of two twins add up to 24. How old is each twin?
- 17.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 18.2 × 9 =
- 19.21 × 4 =
- 20.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 21.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 2 7 6 | 9 ? 1 | 4 3 8. What is the missing number?
- 22.22 × 1000 =
- 23.Double 42 =
- 24.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 25.A girl is 5 years old and her brother is 3 years older. How old will her brother be in 7 years?
- 26.12345679 × 9 =
- 27.70 × 10 =
- 28.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 82 =
- 29.11 × 11 =
- 30.What comes next? 1, 8, 15, 22, ? (a) 36 (b) 22 (c) 30 (d) 29
- 31.49 × 4 =
- 32.12345679 × 72 =
- 33.29 × 4 =
- 34.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 6 16 | 18 ? 2 | 4 14 12. What is the missing number?
- 35.What comes next? 6, 12, 18, 24, ? (a) 30 (b) 36 (c) 31 (d) 24
- 36.Double 18 =
- 37.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 23 =
- 38.Double 68 =
- 39.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 26 29 14 | ? 23 35 | 32 17 20. What is the missing number?
- 40.The ages of two twins add up to 26. How old is each twin?
Answer key
- 12
- 20
- 39
- 123454321
- 72
- 146
- 21
- 6
- 28
- 13
- 15
- 891
- 8
- 116
- 81
- 12
- 7
- 18
- 84
- 2
- 5
- 22000
- 84
- 3
- 15
- 111111111
- 700
- 3403
- 121
- 29
- 196
- 888888888
- 116
- 10
- 30
- 36
- 144
- 136
- 11
- 13
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