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
- 1.12 × 4 =
- 2.4 × 9 =
- 3.What comes next? 3, 6, 12, 24, ? (a) 36 (b) 48 (c) 49 (d) 42
- 4.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 20 22 ? | 10 18 26 | 24 14 16. What is the missing number?
- 5.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 23 9 19 | 13 17 ? | 15 25 11. What is the missing number?
- 6.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 7.I thought of a number, added 7 and then doubled it. I got 44. What was my number?
- 8.Double 21 =
- 9.36 × 4 =
- 10.What comes next? 11, 15, 19, 23, ? (a) 31 (b) 27 (c) 28 (d) 23
- 11.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 12.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 17 (b) 16 (c) 12 (d) 14
- 13.1234567 × 8 + 7 =
- 14.The 5th of a month is a Friday. What day is the 13th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Friday (c) Sunday (d) Tuesday
- 15.60?2 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 16.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 94 =
- 17.1234 × 9 + 5 =
- 18.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 19.A girl is 10 years old and her brother is 6 years older. How old will her brother be in 3 years?
- 20.5 × 9 =
- 21.Think of 13. Multiply it by 2, then add 5. What number do you end with?
- 22.2 × 9 =
- 23.The ages of two twins add up to 8. How old is each twin?
- 24.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 25.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 8 13 | ? 12 14 | 11 16 9. What is the missing number?
- 26.7 × 9 =
- 27.Take 961. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 28.Magic trick! Think of 4. Double it, add 12, halve it, then take away 4. What number do you get?
- 29.35 × 4 =
- 30.36 × ? = 36000
- 31.Half of 118 =
- 32.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 17 32 | 35 23 11 | 14 29 26. What is the missing number?
- 33.9 × 2 =
- 34.9 × 10 =
- 35.792 + 297 =
- 36.37 × 3 =
- 37.57?7 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 38.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 4 11 6 | 9 7 5 | 8 ? 10. What is the missing number?
- 39.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 4 times table? (a) 16 (b) 24 (c) 10 (d) 32
- 40.374 × 10 =
Answer key
- 48
- 36
- 48
- 12
- 21
- 198
- 15
- 42
- 144
- 27
- 2
- 16
- 9876543
- Saturday
- 1
- 4465
- 11111
- 3
- 19
- 45
- 31
- 18
- 4
- 693
- 10
- 63
- 792
- 6
- 140
- 1000
- 59
- 20
- 18
- 90
- 1089
- 111
- 8
- 3
- 10
- 3740
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