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.What comes next? 4, 8, 16, 32, ? (a) 65 (b) 56 (c) 64 (d) 48
- 2.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 4 times table? (a) 12 (b) 25 (c) 36 (d) 24
- 3.10 × 4 =
- 4.17 × ? = 17000
- 5.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 25 10 13 | 4 16 ? | 19 22 7. What is the missing number?
- 6.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 25 10 13 | 4 16 28 | ? 22 7. What is the missing number?
- 7.If today is Wednesday, what day will it be after 54 days? (a) Monday (b) Tuesday (c) Thursday (d) Sunday
- 8.A father is 38 years old and his son is 14. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 9.3 × 1000 =
- 10.1234567 × 9 + 8 =
- 11.3 × 9 =
- 12.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 78 =
- 13.If today is Thursday, what day was it 37 days ago? (a) Tuesday (b) Friday (c) Monday (d) Wednesday
- 14.21 × 4 =
- 15.Magic trick! Think of 19. Double it, add 6, halve it, then take away 19. What number do you get?
- 16.Double 47 =
- 17.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 5 times table? (a) 25 (b) 15 (c) 35 (d) 43
- 18.9 × 1 =
- 19.Double 24 =
- 20.Do the 1089 trick with 301: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 21.Take 440. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 22.?311 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 23.I thought of a number, added 4 and then doubled it. I got 34. What was my number?
- 24.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 25.7 × 9 =
- 26.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 5 times table? (a) 31 (b) 40 (c) 20 (d) 35
- 27.The 4th of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 17th of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Friday (c) Monday (d) Wednesday
- 28.Double 91 =
- 29.9 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 30.What comes next? 7, 15, 23, 31, ? (a) 31 (b) 40 (c) 39 (d) 47
- 31.You have 12 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹13. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 32.6 × ? = 6000
- 33.What comes next? 1, 9, 17, 25, ? (a) 25 (b) 33 (c) 34 (d) 41
- 34.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 35.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 36.28 × 4 =
- 37.If today is Thursday, what day was it 23 days ago? (a) Monday (b) Friday (c) Wednesday (d) Tuesday
- 38.Take 44 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 39.25 × 1000 =
- 40.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 64 =
Answer key
- 64
- 25
- 40
- 1000
- 28
- 19
- Monday
- 24
- 3000
- 11111111
- 27
- 3081
- Tuesday
- 84
- 3
- 94
- 43
- 9
- 48
- 1089
- 396
- 4
- 13
- 2
- 63
- 31
- Tuesday
- 182
- 6
- 39
- 1
- 1000
- 33
- 3
- 6
- 112
- Tuesday
- 36
- 25000
- 2080
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