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
- 1.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 2.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 3.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 3. I got 30. What was my number?
- 4.4?97 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 5.111 × 111 =
- 6.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 7.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 19 =
- 8.2 × 9 =
- 9.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 9. I got 45. What was my number?
- 10.26 × 4 =
- 11.Double 17 =
- 12.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 3. I got 15. What was my number?
- 13.54 × 100 =
- 14.12345 × 9 + 6 =
- 15.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 31 =
- 16.Take 60 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 17.17 × ? = 17000
- 18.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 19.Double 83 =
- 20.12345679 × 18 =
- 21.12 × 1000 =
- 22.9 × 10 =
- 23.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 9 4 | 3 7 11 | 10 5 ?. What is the missing number?
- 24.73 × 100 =
- 25.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 13 =
- 26.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 9 16 | 15 13 11 | 10 17 12. What is the missing number?
- 27.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 28.The 9th of a month is a Thursday. What day is the 30th of the same month? (a) Friday (b) Wednesday (c) Sunday (d) Thursday
- 29.A father is 40 years old and his son is 9. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 30.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 1 ? | 3 5 7 | 4 9 2. What is the missing number?
- 31.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 3 17 | 15 11 7 | 5 ? 9. What is the missing number?
- 32.Take 761. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 33.179 × ? = 1790
- 34.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 35.32 × 4 =
- 36.7 × 4 =
- 37.What comes next? 4, 11, 18, 25, ? (a) 25 (b) 39 (c) 32 (d) 33
- 38.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 41 =
- 39.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 19 9 23 | 21 17 13 | 11 ? 15. What is the missing number?
- 40.Magic trick! Think of 14. Double it, add 4, halve it, then take away 14. What number do you get?
Answer key
- 1
- 6
- 9
- 7
- 12321
- 396
- 100
- 18
- 12
- 104
- 34
- 4
- 5400
- 111111
- 496
- 54
- 1000
- 495
- 166
- 222222222
- 12000
- 90
- 6
- 7300
- 49
- 14
- 7
- Thursday
- 31
- 6
- 19
- 594
- 10
- 3
- 128
- 28
- 32
- 441
- 25
- 2
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