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.Do the 1089 trick with 850: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 2.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 3.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 4.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 5.21 × 4 =
- 6.What comes next? 9, 11, 13, 15, ? (a) 17 (b) 19 (c) 18 (d) 15
- 7.Take 197. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 8.12345 × 9 + 6 =
- 9.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 13 6 | 7 9 11 | 12 5 ?. What is the missing number?
- 10.9 × 5 = 4? — what is the missing digit?
- 11.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 ? 4 | 2 10 18 | 16 6 8. What is the missing number?
- 12.4 × 9 =
- 13.Double 12 =
- 14.8 × 9 =
- 15.A father is 33 years old and his son is 6. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 16.28 × 4 =
- 17.58 × 4 =
- 18.594 + 495 =
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 30 15 18 | 9 21 33 | ? 27 12. What is the missing number?
- 20.3 × 9 =
- 21.891 + 198 =
- 22.10 × 9 =
- 23.I thought of a number, added 6 and then doubled it. I got 24. What was my number?
- 24.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 25.41 × 4 =
- 26.9 × 3 =
- 27.9 × 2 =
- 28.What comes next? 20, 25, 30, 35, ? (a) 40 (b) 35 (c) 41 (d) 45
- 29.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 15 10 | 13 11 9 | ? 7 14. What is the missing number?
- 30.Half of 104 =
- 31.Half of 64 =
- 32.9 × 7 =
- 33.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 20 18 | ? 16 8 | 14 12 22. What is the missing number?
- 34.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 35.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 2. I got 77. What was my number?
- 36.Take 749. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 37.What comes next? 6, 12, 18, 24, ? (a) 30 (b) 24 (c) 36 (d) 31
- 38.Think of 5. Multiply it by 4, then add 2. What number do you end with?
- 39.37 × 21 =
- 40.Think of 14. Multiply it by 4, then add 3. What number do you end with?
Answer key
- 1089
- 4
- 8
- 792
- 84
- 17
- 594
- 111111
- 10
- 5
- 14
- 36
- 24
- 72
- 27
- 112
- 232
- 1089
- 24
- 27
- 1089
- 90
- 6
- 4
- 164
- 27
- 18
- 40
- 12
- 52
- 32
- 63
- 24
- 3
- 15
- 198
- 30
- 22
- 777
- 59
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