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.A father is 31 years old and his son is 4. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 2.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 3.If today is Wednesday, what day will it be after 26 days? (a) Monday (b) Sunday (c) Thursday (d) Tuesday
- 4.?197 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 5.19 × 4 =
- 6.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 2 16 | 14 10 ? | 4 18 8. What is the missing number?
- 7.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 8.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 4. I got 24. What was my number?
- 9.11111 × 11111 =
- 10.4 × 9 =
- 11.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 22 ? | 10 14 18 | 20 6 16. What is the missing number?
- 12.If today is Friday, what day will it be after 26 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Wednesday (c) Saturday (d) Thursday
- 13.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 27 ? | 23 19 15 | 21 11 25. What is the missing number?
- 14.Take 246. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 15.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 28 (b) 32 (c) 24 (d) 33
- 16.The ages of two twins add up to 16. How old is each twin?
- 17.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 11 16 | 17 13 9 | 10 15 14. What is the missing number?
- 18.Half of 144 =
- 19.9 × 7 =
- 20.469 × 10 =
- 21.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 61 =
- 22.9 × 2 =
- 23.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 31 16 | 25 19 ? | 22 7 28. What is the missing number?
- 24.16 × 4 =
- 25.Half of 66 =
- 26.31?1 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 27.37 × 3 =
- 28.50 × 4 =
- 29.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 80 (b) 81 (c) 70 (d) 60
- 30.Take 30 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 31.9 × 9 =
- 32.Take 387. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 33.10?6 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 34.Half of 74 =
- 35.Half of 108 =
- 36.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 41 =
- 37.37 × 4 =
- 38.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 39.You have 10 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹18. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 40.80?0 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
Answer key
- 27
- 3
- Monday
- 1
- 76
- 6
- 4
- 5
- 123454321
- 36
- 8
- Wednesday
- 17
- 396
- 32
- 8
- 12
- 72
- 63
- 4690
- 1891
- 18
- 13
- 64
- 33
- 4
- 111
- 200
- 80
- 27
- 81
- 396
- 2
- 37
- 54
- 441
- 148
- 7
- 8
- 1
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