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 trick! Think of 6. Double it, add 18, halve it, then take away 6. What number do you get?
- 2.What comes next? 8, 12, 16, 20, ? (a) 24 (b) 28 (c) 20 (d) 25
- 3.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 43 days? (a) Monday (b) Friday (c) Tuesday (d) Wednesday
- 4.Half of 52 =
- 5.Magic trick! Think of 19. Double it, add 12, halve it, then take away 19. What number do you get?
- 6.759 × ? = 7590
- 7.66?9 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 8.Double 42 =
- 9.Think of 12. Multiply it by 3, then add 5. What number do you end with?
- 10.287? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 11.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 12.The ages of two twins add up to 28. How old is each twin?
- 13.792 + 297 =
- 14.Half of 152 =
- 15.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 16.46 × 4 =
- 17.37 × 12 =
- 18.7 × 9 =
- 19.Magic trick! Think of 12. Double it, add 12, halve it, then take away 12. What number do you get?
- 20.1 × 9 =
- 21.28 × 4 =
- 22.What comes next? 1, 4, 9, 16, ? (a) 27 (b) 26 (c) 23 (d) 25
- 23.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 51 =
- 24.396 + 693 =
- 25.43 × 4 =
- 26.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 27.2 × 9 =
- 28.9 × 10 =
- 29.What comes next? 9, 16, 25, 36, ? (a) 49 (b) 51 (c) 50 (d) 47
- 30.6 × 1000 =
- 31.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 56 days? (a) Thursday (b) Tuesday (c) Sunday (d) Monday
- 32.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 12 7 | 6 10 14 | 13 8 ?. What is the missing number?
- 33.9 × 4 =
- 34.I thought of a number, added 1 and then doubled it. I got 36. What was my number?
- 35.Half of 36 =
- 36.70?0 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 37.Take 49 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 38.807 × 10 =
- 39.What comes next? 14, 18, 22, 26, ? (a) 34 (b) 26 (c) 30 (d) 31
- 40.Half of 58 =
Answer key
- 9
- 24
- Tuesday
- 26
- 6
- 10
- 6
- 84
- 41
- 1
- 3
- 14
- 1089
- 76
- 0
- 184
- 444
- 63
- 6
- 9
- 112
- 25
- 1326
- 1089
- 172
- 9
- 18
- 90
- 49
- 6000
- Monday
- 9
- 36
- 17
- 18
- 2
- 36
- 8070
- 30
- 29
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