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.I thought of a number, added 9 and then doubled it. I got 50. What was my number?
- 2.3 × 9 =
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 7 8 | 5 9 13 | 10 11 6. What is the missing number?
- 4.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 5.35 × 4 =
- 6.84 × 100 =
- 7.Do the 1089 trick with 610: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 8.4 × 9 =
- 9.I thought of a number, added 7 and then doubled it. I got 26. What was my number?
- 10.1234 × 8 + 4 =
- 11.9 × 5 = 4? — what is the missing digit?
- 12.Take 77 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 13.Do the 1089 trick with 910: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 14.Magic trick! Think of 16. Double it, add 18, halve it, then take away 16. What number do you get?
- 15.9 × 1 =
- 16.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 14 (b) 16 (c) 12 (d) 17
- 17.611 × ? = 6110
- 18.If today is Monday, what day was it 41 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Monday (c) Wednesday (d) Tuesday
- 19.278 × 10 =
- 20.Double 36 =
- 21.7 × 9 =
- 22.What comes next? 3, 6, 9, 12, ? (a) 12 (b) 16 (c) 15 (d) 18
- 23.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 46 =
- 24.8 × 100 =
- 25.?451 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 26.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 6 1 ? | 7 5 3 | 2 9 4. What is the missing number?
- 27.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 28.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 3 13 | 7 ? 15 | 9 19 5. What is the missing number?
- 29.59 × 4 =
- 30.227 × 10 =
- 31.123 × 9 + 4 =
- 32.9 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 33.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 9 times table? (a) 72 (b) 28 (c) 18 (d) 45
- 34.39 × 4 =
- 35.37 × 18 =
- 36.786 × ? = 7860
- 37.Double 81 =
- 38.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 39.111111 × 111111 =
- 40.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 8 13 | ? 10 6 | 7 12 11. What is the missing number?
Answer key
- 16
- 27
- 12
- 2
- 140
- 8400
- 1089
- 36
- 6
- 9876
- 5
- 63
- 1089
- 9
- 9
- 16
- 10
- Tuesday
- 2780
- 72
- 63
- 15
- 1081
- 800
- 8
- 8
- 3
- 11
- 236
- 2270
- 1111
- 6
- 28
- 156
- 666
- 10
- 162
- 6
- 12345654321
- 14
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