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.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 24 27 12 | ? 21 33 | 30 15 18. What is the missing number?
- 2.Double 89 =
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 12 ? | 18 14 10 | 11 16 15. What is the missing number?
- 4.Take 88 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 5.Half of 24 =
- 6.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 31 =
- 7.9 × 4 =
- 8.?577 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 9.9 × 2 =
- 10.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 5 19 9 | 15 11 7 | ? 3 17. What is the missing number?
- 11.16 × ? = 16000
- 12.Take 902. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 13.118 × 10 =
- 14.?620 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 15.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 4 times table? (a) 39 (b) 28 (c) 16 (d) 40
- 16.Half of 96 =
- 17.60 × 4 =
- 18.37 × 18 =
- 19.21 × 4 =
- 20.139 × 10 =
- 21.If today is Monday, what day was it 18 days ago? (a) Wednesday (b) Friday (c) Thursday (d) Sunday
- 22.9 × 7 =
- 23.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 69 days? (a) Saturday (b) Friday (c) Thursday (d) Monday
- 24.Take 760. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 25.585 × 10 =
- 26.If today is Sunday, what day was it 40 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Monday (c) Wednesday (d) Tuesday
- 27.Do the 1089 trick with 321: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 28.111 × 111 =
- 29.A father is 32 years old and his son is 10. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 30.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 31.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 18 15 30 | 33 21 9 | 12 27 ?. What is the missing number?
- 32.530 × 10 =
- 33.Take 14 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 34.Magic trick! Think of 4. Double it, add 6, halve it, then take away 4. What number do you get?
- 35.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 36.560 × 10 =
- 37.9 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 38.The ages of two twins add up to 18. How old is each twin?
- 39.I thought of a number, added 6 and then doubled it. I got 32. What was my number?
- 40.5 × 9 =
Answer key
- 9
- 178
- 17
- 72
- 12
- 256
- 36
- 8
- 18
- 13
- 1000
- 693
- 1180
- 1
- 39
- 48
- 240
- 666
- 84
- 1390
- Thursday
- 63
- Friday
- 693
- 5850
- Tuesday
- 1089
- 12321
- 22
- 8
- 24
- 5300
- 9
- 3
- 495
- 5600
- 6
- 9
- 10
- 45
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