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.Magic trick! Think of 16. Double it, add 8, halve it, then take away 16. What number do you get?
- 2.34 × 4 =
- 3.I thought of a number, added 1 and then doubled it. I got 18. What was my number?
- 4.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 15 ? | 3 11 19 | 17 7 9. What is the missing number?
- 5.1 × 9 =
- 6.9 × 10 =
- 7.Half of 26 =
- 8.What comes next? 1, 6, 11, 16, ? (a) 16 (b) 21 (c) 22 (d) 26
- 9.Take 40 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 10.9 × 1 =
- 11.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 18 =
- 12.9 × 6 =
- 13.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 19 ? 25 | 22 16 10 | 7 28 13. What is the missing number?
- 14.40 × 4 =
- 15.If today is Friday, what day will it be after 24 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Monday (c) Sunday (d) Thursday
- 16.11 × 11 =
- 17.10 × 4 =
- 18.Do the 1089 trick with 952: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 19.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 9 =
- 20.85 × 100 =
- 21.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 8. I got 24. What was my number?
- 22.35 × 1000 =
- 23.Magic trick! Think of 18. Double it, add 14, halve it, then take away 18. What number do you get?
- 24.53 × 4 =
- 25.In 4 years a boy will be 18 years old. How old was he 5 years ago?
- 26.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 3 ? 7 | 10 6 2 | 5 4 9. What is the missing number?
- 27.What comes next? 25, 36, 49, 64, ? (a) 82 (b) 81 (c) 83 (d) 79
- 28.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 19 5 15 | 9 13 17 | 11 21 ?. What is the missing number?
- 29.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 43 =
- 30.?077 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 31.Take 820. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 32.Take 47 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 33.2?68 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 34.12345679 × 72 =
- 35.Magic trick! Think of 10. Double it, add 16, halve it, then take away 10. What number do you get?
- 36.A piggy bank has 3 coins of ₹5 and 7 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 37.45 × ? = 45000
- 38.4 × 9 =
- 39.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 6 16 | 18 10 2 | 4 14 12. What is the missing number?
- 40.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 41 =
Answer key
- 4
- 136
- 8
- 5
- 9
- 90
- 13
- 21
- 36
- 9
- 171
- 54
- 4
- 160
- Monday
- 121
- 40
- 1089
- 45
- 8500
- 8
- 35000
- 7
- 212
- 9
- 8
- 81
- 7
- 484
- 4
- 792
- 36
- 2
- 888888888
- 8
- 29
- 1000
- 36
- 8
- 441
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