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.Take 73 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 2.12 × 8 + 2 =
- 3.The 7th of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 20th of the same month? (a) Wednesday (b) Friday (c) Monday (d) Tuesday
- 4.Take 22 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 5.6 × 9 =
- 6.9 × 8 =
- 7.If today is Monday, what day was it 48 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Tuesday (c) Wednesday (d) Monday
- 8.If today is Friday, what day will it be after 73 days? (a) Thursday (b) Tuesday (c) Monday (d) Sunday
- 9.What comes next? 36, 49, 64, 81, ? (a) 100 (b) 101 (c) 98 (d) 102
- 10.49 × 4 =
- 11.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 12.742 × ? = 7420
- 13.35 × ? = 35000
- 14.A piggy bank has 4 coins of ₹5 and 5 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 15.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 5 ? | 17 13 9 | 7 21 11. What is the missing number?
- 16.8 × 4 =
- 17.47 × 4 =
- 18.58 × 4 =
- 19.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 20.9 × 2 =
- 21.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 8 18 | 20 ? 4 | 6 16 14. What is the missing number?
- 22.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 25 days? (a) Wednesday (b) Tuesday (c) Saturday (d) Thursday
- 23.Do the 1089 trick with 933: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 24.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 60 (b) 81 (c) 80 (d) 70
- 25.29 × 4 =
- 26.Magic trick! Think of 6. Double it, add 4, halve it, then take away 6. What number do you get?
- 27.Double 47 =
- 28.396 + 693 =
- 29.The ages of two twins add up to 8. How old is each twin?
- 30.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 2. I got 28. What was my number?
- 31.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 19 =
- 32.Double 61 =
- 33.Double 26 =
- 34.What comes next? 25, 36, 49, 64, ? (a) 83 (b) 79 (c) 82 (d) 81
- 35.10 × 9 =
- 36.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 72 days? (a) Monday (b) Wednesday (c) Friday (d) Tuesday
- 37.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 2. I got 47. What was my number?
- 38.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 39.12345679 × 27 =
- 40.37 × 12 =
Answer key
- 63
- 98
- Tuesday
- 18
- 54
- 72
- Tuesday
- Monday
- 100
- 196
- 4
- 10
- 1000
- 30
- 19
- 32
- 188
- 232
- 396
- 18
- 12
- Wednesday
- 1089
- 80
- 116
- 2
- 94
- 1089
- 4
- 13
- 100
- 122
- 52
- 81
- 90
- Tuesday
- 9
- 1
- 333333333
- 444
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