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.Half of 108 =
- 2.A piggy bank has 9 coins of ₹5 and 15 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 3.The 3rd of a month is a Friday. What day is the 13th of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Sunday (c) Tuesday (d) Monday
- 4.Take 492. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 5.A piggy bank has 3 coins of ₹5 and 11 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 6.12345 × 8 + 5 =
- 7.8 × 9 =
- 8.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 4 18 | 16 12 8 | 6 20 10. What is the missing number?
- 9.37 × 24 =
- 10.37 × 12 =
- 11.9 × 5 =
- 12.Do the 1089 trick with 893: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 13.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 5 times table? (a) 12 (b) 20 (c) 10 (d) 25
- 14.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 15.9 × 6 =
- 16.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 41 =
- 17.139? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 18.28 × 4 =
- 19.594 + 495 =
- 20.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 26 11 32 | 29 23 ? | 14 35 20. What is the missing number?
- 21.Think of 14. Multiply it by 5, then add 8. What number do you end with?
- 22.12345679 × 45 =
- 23.1111 × 1111 =
- 24.Magic trick! Think of 15. Double it, add 8, halve it, then take away 15. What number do you get?
- 25.I thought of a number, added 7 and then doubled it. I got 52. What was my number?
- 26.9 × 1 =
- 27.What comes next? 10, 15, 20, 25, ? (a) 25 (b) 31 (c) 35 (d) 30
- 28.Take 118. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 29.4?94 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 30.I thought of a number, added 7 and then doubled it. I got 44. What was my number?
- 31.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 30 15 | 24 18 12 | 21 ? 27. What is the missing number?
- 32.Take 137. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 33.The ages of two twins add up to 20. How old is each twin?
- 34.The 7th of a month is a Sunday. What day is the 29th of the same month? (a) Monday (b) Thursday (c) Tuesday (d) Sunday
- 35.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 23 26 11 | 8 20 32 | ? 14 17. What is the missing number?
- 36.497? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 37.9 × 9 =
- 38.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 39.You have 14 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹25. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 40.Think of 3. Multiply it by 3, then add 1. What number do you end with?
Answer key
- 54
- 75
- Monday
- 198
- 37
- 98765
- 72
- 14
- 888
- 444
- 45
- 1089
- 12
- 594
- 54
- 441
- 5
- 112
- 1089
- 17
- 78
- 555555555
- 1234321
- 4
- 19
- 9
- 30
- 693
- 1
- 15
- 6
- 594
- 10
- Monday
- 29
- 7
- 81
- 5
- 11
- 10
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