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): ? 10 13 | 4 16 28 | 19 22 7. What is the missing number?
- 2.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 8. I got 26. What was my number?
- 3.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 9 times table? (a) 36 (b) 18 (c) 65 (d) 63
- 4.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 5.The ages of two twins add up to 14. How old is each twin?
- 6.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 7.9 × 1 =
- 8.9 × 5 = 4? — what is the missing digit?
- 9.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 41 =
- 10.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 29 26 | 35 23 ? | 20 17 32. What is the missing number?
- 11.343 × 10 =
- 12.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 12 7 | 6 10 14 | 13 ? 9. What is the missing number?
- 13.If today is Sunday, what day was it 32 days ago? (a) Wednesday (b) Thursday (c) Saturday (d) Tuesday
- 14.What comes next? 8, 15, 22, 29, ? (a) 37 (b) 43 (c) 29 (d) 36
- 15.6 × 9 =
- 16.31 × 4 =
- 17.36 × 4 =
- 18.111 × 111 =
- 19.The 7th of a month is a Tuesday. What day is the 25th of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Friday (c) Saturday (d) Sunday
- 20.If today is Friday, what day was it 43 days ago? (a) Wednesday (b) Sunday (c) Friday (d) Thursday
- 21.What comes next? 1, 4, 9, 16, ? (a) 26 (b) 23 (c) 25 (d) 27
- 22.1234 × 8 + 4 =
- 23.Half of 124 =
- 24.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 25.2 × 100 =
- 26.Double 97 =
- 27.599 × 10 =
- 28.12345679 × 54 =
- 29.Double 31 =
- 30.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 31 =
- 31.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 3. I got 17. What was my number?
- 32.19 × 4 =
- 33.If today is Monday, what day was it 50 days ago? (a) Monday (b) Wednesday (c) Saturday (d) Sunday
- 34.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 7 =
- 35.Think of 5. Multiply it by 4, then add 9. What number do you end with?
- 36.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 37.3 × 9 =
- 38.What comes next? 4, 9, 16, 25, ? (a) 38 (b) 36 (c) 34 (d) 37
- 39.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 1. I got 19. What was my number?
- 40.533 × 10 =
Answer key
- 25
- 6
- 65
- 8
- 7
- 1
- 9
- 5
- 441
- 11
- 3430
- 8
- Wednesday
- 36
- 54
- 124
- 144
- 12321
- Saturday
- Thursday
- 25
- 9876
- 62
- 891
- 200
- 194
- 5990
- 666666666
- 62
- 256
- 7
- 76
- Sunday
- 28
- 29
- 6
- 27
- 36
- 6
- 5330
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