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
- 1.1234 × 8 + 4 =
- 2.47 × 4 =
- 3.A piggy bank has 8 coins of ₹5 and 15 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 4.11 × 11 =
- 5.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 ? 4 | 3 7 11 | 10 5 6. What is the missing number?
- 6.45 × ? = 45000
- 7.8 × 9 =
- 8.21 × ? = 21000
- 9.A piggy bank has 5 coins of ₹5 and 5 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 10.Half of 156 =
- 11.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 12.51 × 4 =
- 13.44 × 4 =
- 14.What comes next? 1, 4, 9, 16, ? (a) 26 (b) 27 (c) 25 (d) 23
- 15.9 × 9 =
- 16.Magic trick! Think of 9. Double it, add 4, halve it, then take away 9. What number do you get?
- 17.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 34 =
- 18.Double 79 =
- 19.1234567 × 8 + 7 =
- 20.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 4 14 12 | 18 10 2 | 8 ? 16. What is the missing number?
- 21.63 × 100 =
- 22.78 × 100 =
- 23.48 × ? = 48000
- 24.6 × 4 =
- 25.If today is Wednesday, what day will it be after 31 days? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Saturday (d) Tuesday
- 26.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 27.Do the 1089 trick with 537: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 28.30 × 4 =
- 29.Take 944. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 30.A father is 38 years old and his son is 10. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 31.In 6 years a boy will be 15 years old. How old was he 2 years ago?
- 32.9 × 1 =
- 33.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 34.You have 7 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹8. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 35.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 2. I got 14. What was my number?
- 36.218 × 10 =
- 37.891 + 198 =
- 38.18 × 4 =
- 39.578? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 40.What comes next? 16, 25, 36, 49, ? (a) 66 (b) 62 (c) 65 (d) 64
Answer key
- 9876
- 188
- 70
- 121
- 9
- 1000
- 72
- 1000
- 35
- 78
- 198
- 204
- 176
- 25
- 81
- 2
- 595
- 158
- 9876543
- 6
- 6300
- 7800
- 1000
- 24
- Saturday
- 7
- 1089
- 120
- 495
- 28
- 7
- 9
- 7
- 1
- 6
- 2180
- 1089
- 72
- 7
- 64
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