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
- 1.74?0 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 2.Half of 196 =
- 3.Do the 1089 trick with 866: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 4.9 × 8 =
- 5.A father is 35 years old and his son is 8. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 6.Half of 156 =
- 7.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 80 =
- 8.9 × 4 =
- 9.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 24 ? 30 | 27 21 15 | 12 33 18. What is the missing number?
- 10.2 × 1000 =
- 11.Double 73 =
- 12.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 16 days? (a) Monday (b) Tuesday (c) Wednesday (d) Friday
- 13.If today is Sunday, what day was it 34 days ago? (a) Thursday (b) Tuesday (c) Sunday (d) Monday
- 14.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 15.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 13 =
- 16.What comes next? 4, 9, 16, 25, ? (a) 37 (b) 34 (c) 38 (d) 36
- 17.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 19 4 25 | 22 16 10 | 7 ? 13. What is the missing number?
- 18.198 + 891 =
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 ? 12 | 13 9 5 | 6 11 10. What is the missing number?
- 20.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 21.Double 48 =
- 22.Take 25 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 23.I thought of a number, added 2 and then doubled it. I got 14. What was my number?
- 24.Take 618. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 25.37 × 15 =
- 26.123 × 9 + 4 =
- 27.37 × 9 =
- 28.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 29.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 30.792 + 297 =
- 31.17 × 4 =
- 32.Double 71 =
- 33.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 34.Double 86 =
- 35.A piggy bank has 3 coins of ₹5 and 9 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 36.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 35 20 | 29 23 17 | 26 ? 32. What is the missing number?
- 37.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 38.578 × ? = 5780
- 39.What comes next? 18, 23, 28, 33, ? (a) 39 (b) 43 (c) 33 (d) 38
- 40.Take 24 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
Answer key
- 7
- 98
- 1089
- 72
- 27
- 78
- 3240
- 36
- 9
- 2000
- 146
- Tuesday
- Monday
- 9
- 49
- 36
- 28
- 1089
- 7
- 8
- 96
- 18
- 5
- 198
- 555
- 1111
- 333
- 396
- 7
- 1089
- 68
- 142
- 4
- 172
- 33
- 11
- 4
- 10
- 38
- 18
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