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.What comes next? 36, 49, 64, 81, ? (a) 98 (b) 100 (c) 101 (d) 102
- 2.45 × 100 =
- 3.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 4.9 × 9 =
- 5.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 92 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Monday (c) Thursday (d) Sunday
- 6.49 × 4 =
- 7.2 × 9 =
- 8.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 81 (b) 60 (c) 70 (d) 80
- 9.Take 89 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 10.Do the 1089 trick with 397: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 11.A father is 31 years old and his son is 13. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 12.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 13.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 45 =
- 14.68?2 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 15.Half of 86 =
- 16.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 33 =
- 17.I thought of a number, added 9 and then doubled it. I got 38. What was my number?
- 18.33 × 4 =
- 19.1111 × 1111 =
- 20.Double 91 =
- 21.Double 81 =
- 22.Double 52 =
- 23.A girl is 7 years old and her brother is 2 years older. How old will her brother be in 6 years?
- 24.Take 397. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 25.22 × 4 =
- 26.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 46 =
- 27.Magic trick! Think of 10. Double it, add 8, halve it, then take away 10. What number do you get?
- 28.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 29.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 98 days? (a) Monday (b) Tuesday (c) Thursday (d) Sunday
- 30.Do the 1089 trick with 254: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 31.496 × 10 =
- 32.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 57 =
- 33.Take 90 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 34.Do the 1089 trick with 890: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 35.If today is Friday, what day will it be after 62 days? (a) Sunday (b) Wednesday (c) Friday (d) Thursday
- 36.19 × 100 =
- 37.12345 × 9 + 6 =
- 38.14 × 4 =
- 39.26 × 4 =
- 40.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 45 =
Answer key
- 100
- 4500
- 8
- 81
- Monday
- 196
- 18
- 80
- 72
- 1089
- 18
- 4
- 1035
- 2
- 43
- 561
- 10
- 132
- 1234321
- 182
- 162
- 104
- 15
- 396
- 88
- 1081
- 4
- 891
- Monday
- 1089
- 4960
- 1653
- 81
- 1089
- Thursday
- 1900
- 111111
- 56
- 104
- 529
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