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 305: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 2.9 × 9 =
- 3.A father is 45 years old and his son is 7. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 4.12345679 × 27 =
- 5.Double 93 =
- 6.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 7.Take 22 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 8.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 97 =
- 9.A father is 38 years old and his son is 10. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 10.Magic trick! Think of 20. Double it, add 10, halve it, then take away 20. What number do you get?
- 11.Think of 10. Multiply it by 4, then add 7. What number do you end with?
- 12.40 × 4 =
- 13.If today is Monday, what day was it 16 days ago? (a) Tuesday (b) Saturday (c) Sunday (d) Friday
- 14.Half of 188 =
- 15.37 × 15 =
- 16.Take 813. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 17.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 18.Think of 10. Multiply it by 5, then add 4. What number do you end with?
- 19.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 10 =
- 20.62 × 100 =
- 21.Magic trick! Think of 19. Double it, add 14, halve it, then take away 19. What number do you get?
- 22.Take 270. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 23.A father is 45 years old and his son is 6. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 24.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 31 =
- 25.If today is Monday, what day was it 23 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Sunday (c) Saturday (d) Tuesday
- 26.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 27.123 × 9 + 4 =
- 28.3?35 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 29.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 ? 19 | 21 13 5 | 7 17 15. What is the missing number?
- 30.891 + 198 =
- 31.12 × 8 + 2 =
- 32.The 6th of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 17th of the same month? (a) Sunday (b) Monday (c) Wednesday (d) Saturday
- 33.12345679 × 72 =
- 34.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 4 times table? (a) 24 (b) 28 (c) 12 (d) 22
- 35.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 36.12345679 × 18 =
- 37.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 33 (b) 28 (c) 32 (d) 24
- 38.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 39.9 × 4 =
- 40.37 × 3 =
Answer key
- 1089
- 81
- 38
- 333333333
- 186
- 2
- 18
- 4753
- 28
- 5
- 47
- 160
- Saturday
- 94
- 555
- 495
- 4
- 54
- 55
- 6200
- 7
- 198
- 39
- 256
- Saturday
- 0
- 1111
- 7
- 9
- 1089
- 98
- Sunday
- 888888888
- 22
- 8
- 222222222
- 32
- 495
- 36
- 111
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