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 15 ? | 9 11 13 | 14 7 12. What is the missing number?
- 2.A girl is 10 years old and her brother is 6 years older. How old will her brother be in 6 years?
- 3.If today is Wednesday, what day was it 45 days ago? (a) Saturday (b) Monday (c) Sunday (d) Wednesday
- 4.Double 58 =
- 5.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 49 =
- 6.I thought of a number, added 9 and then doubled it. I got 56. What was my number?
- 7.12345 × 8 + 5 =
- 8.A girl is 8 years old and her brother is 5 years older. How old will her brother be in 7 years?
- 9.36 × 4 =
- 10.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 28 (b) 33 (c) 32 (d) 24
- 11.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 11 =
- 12.6 × 9 =
- 13.A father is 45 years old and his son is 10. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 14.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 25 ? 17 | 11 19 27 | 21 23 13. What is the missing number?
- 15.A father is 42 years old and his son is 8. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 16.12345679 × 36 =
- 17.48 × 4 =
- 18.Do the 1089 trick with 835: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 19.Double 22 =
- 20.22 × 1000 =
- 21.Do the 1089 trick with 208: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 22.A father is 32 years old and his son is 8. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 23.Take 63 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 24.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 29 26 | 35 23 ? | 20 17 32. What is the missing number?
- 25.111 × 111 =
- 26.I thought of a number, added 2 and then doubled it. I got 32. What was my number?
- 27.Magic trick! Think of 8. Double it, add 8, halve it, then take away 8. What number do you get?
- 28.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 17 days? (a) Friday (b) Wednesday (c) Thursday (d) Sunday
- 29.9 × 10 =
- 30.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 8. I got 33. What was my number?
- 31.A girl is 6 years old and her brother is 4 years older. How old will her brother be in 7 years?
- 32.11 × 4 =
- 33.41 × 4 =
- 34.If today is Thursday, what day will it be after 19 days? (a) Wednesday (b) Monday (c) Tuesday (d) Friday
- 35.Do the 1089 trick with 689: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 36.The ages of two twins add up to 18. How old is each twin?
- 37.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 35 =
- 38.If today is Thursday, what day will it be after 47 days? (a) Friday (b) Wednesday (c) Tuesday (d) Monday
- 39.If today is Sunday, what day was it 60 days ago? (a) Saturday (b) Thursday (c) Wednesday (d) Tuesday
- 40.9 × 6 =
Answer key
- 8
- 22
- Sunday
- 116
- 625
- 19
- 98765
- 20
- 144
- 32
- 36
- 54
- 35
- 15
- 34
- 444444444
- 192
- 1089
- 44
- 22000
- 1089
- 24
- 54
- 11
- 12321
- 14
- 4
- Thursday
- 90
- 5
- 17
- 44
- 164
- Tuesday
- 1089
- 9
- 630
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- 54
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