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
- 1.9 × 4 =
- 2.43 × 4 =
- 3.Half of 182 =
- 4.60 × 4 =
- 5.Double 42 =
- 6.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 8 10 | 4 12 20 | 14 16 6. What is the missing number?
- 7.486 × 10 =
- 8.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 32 =
- 9.4 × 9 =
- 10.66?6 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 11.Double 61 =
- 12.1234567 × 9 + 8 =
- 13.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 20 ? 14 | 17 23 29 | 32 11 26. What is the missing number?
- 14.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 56 =
- 15.The 3rd of a month is a Friday. What day is the 25th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Tuesday (c) Friday (d) Sunday
- 16.A father is 40 years old and his son is 8. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 17.1234 × 9 + 5 =
- 18.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 30 9 24 | ? 21 27 | 18 33 12. What is the missing number?
- 19.I thought of a number, added 3 and then doubled it. I got 26. What was my number?
- 20.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 3. I got 15. What was my number?
- 21.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 18 ? | 16 14 12 | 15 10 17. What is the missing number?
- 22.495 + 594 =
- 23.If today is Thursday, what day will it be after 91 days? (a) Thursday (b) Friday (c) Wednesday (d) Sunday
- 24.343 × ? = 3430
- 25.Take 930. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 26.Take 87 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 27.Double 65 =
- 28.9 × 10 =
- 29.Take 916. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 30.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 41 =
- 31.Half of 42 =
- 32.?543 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 33.The 5th of a month is a Tuesday. What day is the 28th of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Wednesday (c) Friday (d) Sunday
- 34.?887 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 35.891 + 198 =
- 36.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 12 ? | 24 16 8 | 10 20 18. What is the missing number?
- 37.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 38.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 39.37 × 12 =
- 40.23 × 1000 =
Answer key
- 36
- 172
- 91
- 240
- 84
- 18
- 4860
- 528
- 36
- 9
- 122
- 11111111
- 35
- 1596
- Saturday
- 32
- 11111
- 15
- 10
- 6
- 13
- 1089
- Thursday
- 10
- 891
- 72
- 130
- 90
- 297
- 441
- 21
- 6
- Thursday
- 4
- 1089
- 22
- 3
- 1
- 444
- 23000
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