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.In 5 years a boy will be 17 years old. How old was he 6 years ago?
- 2.65?0 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 3.Take 318. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 4.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 5.If today is Tuesday, what day will it be after 13 days? (a) Sunday (b) Thursday (c) Tuesday (d) Monday
- 6.9 × 9 = 8? — what is the missing digit?
- 7.The 1st of a month is a Saturday. What day is the 21st of the same month? (a) Monday (b) Friday (c) Saturday (d) Thursday
- 8.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 9.12345679 × 45 =
- 10.Double 27 =
- 11.7 × 9 =
- 12.9 × 9 =
- 13.123 × 8 + 3 =
- 14.122 × ? = 1220
- 15.Take 820. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 16.If today is Monday, what day was it 46 days ago? (a) Sunday (b) Thursday (c) Wednesday (d) Friday
- 17.3 × 9 =
- 18.11 × 11 =
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 7 14 | 13 11 9 | 8 15 10. What is the missing number?
- 20.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 81 (b) 60 (c) 70 (d) 80
- 21.Double 35 =
- 22.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 3 10 5 | 8 6 ? | 7 2 9. What is the missing number?
- 23.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 47 =
- 24.23 × 4 =
- 25.9 × 6 =
- 26.297 + 792 =
- 27.Take 93 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 28.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 12 (b) 17 (c) 14 (d) 16
- 29.36 × 4 =
- 30.A girl is 11 years old and her brother is 6 years older. How old will her brother be in 8 years?
- 31.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 2. I got 77. What was my number?
- 32.I thought of a number, added 1 and then doubled it. I got 24. What was my number?
- 33.6 × 1000 =
- 34.The 4th of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 13th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Monday (c) Thursday (d) Friday
- 35.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 2 7 6 | 9 5 ? | 4 3 8. What is the missing number?
- 36.655? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 37.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 38.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 39.4?77 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 40.Take 700. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
Answer key
- 6
- 7
- 495
- 396
- Monday
- 1
- Friday
- 297
- 555555555
- 54
- 63
- 81
- 987
- 10
- 792
- Thursday
- 27
- 121
- 12
- 80
- 70
- 4
- 576
- 92
- 54
- 1089
- 81
- 16
- 144
- 25
- 15
- 11
- 6000
- Friday
- 1
- 2
- 0
- 7
- 9
- 693
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