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.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 2.?680 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 ? 11 | 13 17 21 | 23 9 19. What is the missing number?
- 4.The 3rd of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 22nd of the same month? (a) Monday (b) Thursday (c) Tuesday (d) Sunday
- 5.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 15 =
- 6.Half of 98 =
- 7.Take 15 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 8.12 × 8 + 2 =
- 9.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 50 =
- 10.Think of 13. Multiply it by 3, then add 2. What number do you end with?
- 11.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 12.If today is Tuesday, what day was it 10 days ago? (a) Saturday (b) Friday (c) Tuesday (d) Sunday
- 13.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 20 23 8 | 5 17 29 | 26 11 ?. What is the missing number?
- 14.198 + 891 =
- 15.3?27 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 16.55 × 4 =
- 17.Take 85 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 18.Double 61 =
- 19.The 5th of a month is a Saturday. What day is the 24th of the same month? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Wednesday (d) Thursday
- 20.What comes next? 1, 4, 9, 16, ? (a) 23 (b) 25 (c) 27 (d) 26
- 21.Double 38 =
- 22.Take 47 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 23.37 × 6 =
- 24.2 × 9 =
- 25.768 × ? = 7680
- 26.9 × 4 =
- 27.111111 × 111111 =
- 28.31 × ? = 3100
- 29.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 30.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 31.10 × 9 =
- 32.8?32 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 33.Half of 194 =
- 34.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 26 16 | 22 ? 14 | 20 10 24. What is the missing number?
- 35.Do the 1089 trick with 602: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 36.37 × 21 =
- 37.What comes next? 9, 16, 25, 36, ? (a) 50 (b) 49 (c) 47 (d) 51
- 38.Half of 88 =
- 39.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 16 (b) 12 (c) 14 (d) 17
- 40.What comes next? 4, 8, 16, 32, ? (a) 65 (b) 64 (c) 56 (d) 48
Answer key
- 792
- 4
- 25
- Monday
- 64
- 49
- 9
- 98
- 1275
- 41
- 7
- Saturday
- 14
- 1089
- 6
- 220
- 72
- 122
- Thursday
- 25
- 76
- 36
- 222
- 18
- 10
- 36
- 12345654321
- 100
- 297
- 1
- 90
- 5
- 97
- 18
- 1089
- 777
- 49
- 44
- 16
- 64
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