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.Half of 32 =
- 2.Do the 1089 trick with 904: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 3.Magic trick! Think of 9. Double it, add 10, halve it, then take away 9. What number do you get?
- 4.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 5 19 9 | 15 11 ? | 13 3 17. What is the missing number?
- 5.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 18 3 24 | 21 15 9 | 6 ? 12. What is the missing number?
- 6.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 22 ? 28 | 25 19 13 | 10 31 16. What is the missing number?
- 7.792 + 297 =
- 8.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 9.16 × 4 =
- 10.?103 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 11.Double 49 =
- 12.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 26 5 20 | 11 ? 23 | 14 29 8. What is the missing number?
- 13.6 × 4 =
- 14.9 × 2 =
- 15.37 × 6 =
- 16.If today is Friday, what day will it be after 84 days? (a) Saturday (b) Monday (c) Thursday (d) Friday
- 17.9 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 18.9 × 9 = 8? — what is the missing digit?
- 19.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 20.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 21.5?57 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 22.19 × 4 =
- 23.12345 × 9 + 6 =
- 24.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 21 7 | 9 13 17 | 19 ? 15. What is the missing number?
- 25.Magic trick! Think of 11. Double it, add 10, halve it, then take away 11. What number do you get?
- 26.25 × ? = 25000
- 27.891 + 198 =
- 28.Take 886. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 29.2 × 9 =
- 30.50?0 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 31.If today is Friday, what day was it 45 days ago? (a) Monday (b) Friday (c) Wednesday (d) Tuesday
- 32.Take 38 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 33.Magic trick! Think of 17. Double it, add 10, halve it, then take away 17. What number do you get?
- 34.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 35.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 36.6 × 9 =
- 37.Magic trick! Think of 12. Double it, add 10, halve it, then take away 12. What number do you get?
- 38.Double 97 =
- 39.3 × 9 =
- 40.Take 198. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
Answer key
- 16
- 1089
- 5
- 7
- 27
- 7
- 1089
- 2
- 64
- 5
- 98
- 17
- 24
- 18
- 222
- Friday
- 6
- 1
- 0
- 4
- 1
- 76
- 111111
- 5
- 5
- 1000
- 1089
- 198
- 18
- 4
- Tuesday
- 27
- 5
- 594
- 3
- 54
- 5
- 194
- 27
- 693
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