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 33 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 2.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 17 (b) 14 (c) 12 (d) 16
- 3.You have 8 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹13. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 4.Think of 14. Multiply it by 5, then add 9. What number do you end with?
- 5.The 5th of a month is a Thursday. What day is the 16th of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Monday (c) Tuesday (d) Sunday
- 6.Take 97 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 7.876 × 10 =
- 8.Take 920. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 9.What comes next? 25, 36, 49, 64, ? (a) 79 (b) 81 (c) 83 (d) 82
- 10.Magic trick! Think of 5. Double it, add 14, halve it, then take away 5. What number do you get?
- 11.Double 91 =
- 12.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 13.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 14.A girl is 9 years old and her brother is 2 years older. How old will her brother be in 2 years?
- 15.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 ? 6 | 3 5 7 | 4 9 2. What is the missing number?
- 16.34 × 4 =
- 17.Half of 16 =
- 18.9 × 10 =
- 19.35 × 4 =
- 20.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 21.89 × 100 =
- 22.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 18 ? 10 | 8 16 24 | 22 12 14. What is the missing number?
- 23.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 8. I got 35. What was my number?
- 24.Double 82 =
- 25.Magic trick! Think of 12. Double it, add 4, halve it, then take away 12. What number do you get?
- 26.37 × 24 =
- 27.1 × 9 =
- 28.8 × 9 =
- 29.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 7 21 | 19 15 11 | ? 23 13. What is the missing number?
- 30.A father is 30 years old and his son is 14. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 31.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 58 =
- 32.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 38 =
- 33.37 × 4 =
- 34.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 8 13 | 14 10 6 | 7 12 11. What is the missing number?
- 35.Take 89 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 36.The ages of two twins add up to 14. How old is each twin?
- 37.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 38.I thought of a number, added 5 and then doubled it. I got 26. What was my number?
- 39.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 26 5 20 | 11 17 23 | 14 29 ?. What is the missing number?
- 40.Do the 1089 trick with 880: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
Answer key
- 27
- 16
- 5
- 79
- Monday
- 81
- 8760
- 891
- 81
- 7
- 182
- 8
- 9
- 13
- 1
- 136
- 8
- 90
- 140
- 0
- 8900
- 20
- 9
- 164
- 2
- 888
- 9
- 72
- 9
- 16
- 1711
- 741
- 148
- 9
- 72
- 7
- 6
- 8
- 8
- 1089
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