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.You have 8 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹11. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 2.A father is 40 years old and his son is 8. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 3.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 4.46 × 4 =
- 5.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 34 =
- 6.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 7.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 8.123456 × 8 + 6 =
- 9.What comes next? 13, 16, 19, 22, ? (a) 25 (b) 28 (c) 22 (d) 26
- 10.9 × 8 =
- 11.786? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 12.35 × 1000 =
- 13.9 × 9 =
- 14.What comes next? 16, 25, 36, 49, ? (a) 64 (b) 62 (c) 65 (d) 66
- 15.What comes next? 19, 23, 27, 31, ? (a) 31 (b) 35 (c) 39 (d) 36
- 16.You have 12 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹23. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 17.18 × 4 =
- 18.Take 37 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 ? 9 | 11 15 19 | 21 7 17. What is the missing number?
- 20.A father is 38 years old and his son is 13. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 21.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 24 ? 18 | 9 15 21 | 12 27 6. What is the missing number?
- 22.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 14 4 | 2 10 18 | 16 6 ?. What is the missing number?
- 23.The 1st of a month is a Friday. What day is the 13th of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Saturday (c) Wednesday (d) Tuesday
- 24.Double 73 =
- 25.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 28 13 | ? 16 10 | 19 4 25. What is the missing number?
- 26.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 27.9 × 3 =
- 28.If today is Thursday, what day will it be after 78 days? (a) Friday (b) Monday (c) Saturday (d) Thursday
- 29.25?2 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 30.Think of 5. Multiply it by 3, then add 2. What number do you end with?
- 31.The 7th of a month is a Tuesday. What day is the 19th of the same month? (a) Sunday (b) Wednesday (c) Monday (d) Saturday
- 32.Take 63 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 33.Take 870. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 34.I thought of a number, added 6 and then doubled it. I got 28. What was my number?
- 35.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 19 9 | 7 15 23 | ? 11 13. What is the missing number?
- 36.What comes next? 2, 10, 18, 26, ? (a) 34 (b) 42 (c) 26 (d) 35
- 37.Double 85 =
- 38.13 × 1000 =
- 39.A father is 44 years old and his son is 4. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 40.In 6 years a boy will be 16 years old. How old was he 2 years ago?
Answer key
- 3
- 32
- 8
- 184
- 595
- 7
- 2
- 987654
- 25
- 72
- 6
- 35000
- 81
- 64
- 35
- 11
- 72
- 27
- 23
- 25
- 3
- 8
- Wednesday
- 146
- 22
- 2
- 27
- Friday
- 9
- 17
- Sunday
- 54
- 792
- 8
- 21
- 34
- 170
- 13000
- 40
- 8
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