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.A piggy bank has 7 coins of ₹5 and 14 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 2.Take 769. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 17 7 | 5 13 21 | 19 9 ?. What is the missing number?
- 4.I thought of a number, added 1 and then doubled it. I got 12. What was my number?
- 5.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 6.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 7.What comes next? 3, 6, 12, 24, ? (a) 36 (b) 42 (c) 49 (d) 48
- 8.Think of 14. Multiply it by 3, then add 1. What number do you end with?
- 9.43 × 4 =
- 10.What comes next? 11, 20, 29, 38, ? (a) 38 (b) 56 (c) 47 (d) 48
- 11.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 12.16 × 4 =
- 13.65 × 100 =
- 14.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 16 6 | 4 12 ? | 18 8 10. What is the missing number?
- 15.Magic trick! Think of 17. Double it, add 10, halve it, then take away 17. What number do you get?
- 16.297 + 792 =
- 17.27 × 4 =
- 18.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 19.6 × 1000 =
- 20.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 21.Magic trick! Think of 11. Double it, add 12, halve it, then take away 11. What number do you get?
- 22.12345678 × 9 + 9 =
- 23.Take 784. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 24.23 × 4 =
- 25.443 × 10 =
- 26.I thought of a number, added 7 and then doubled it. I got 48. What was my number?
- 27.The 1st of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 20th of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Thursday (c) Sunday (d) Monday
- 28.Double 81 =
- 29.12345679 × 72 =
- 30.Magic trick! Think of 6. Double it, add 8, halve it, then take away 6. What number do you get?
- 31.?440 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 32.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 7 ? | 19 15 11 | 9 23 13. What is the missing number?
- 33.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 27 =
- 34.If today is Thursday, what day was it 43 days ago? (a) Tuesday (b) Saturday (c) Thursday (d) Wednesday
- 35.What comes next? 6, 10, 14, 18, ? (a) 23 (b) 26 (c) 18 (d) 22
- 36.The ages of two twins add up to 12. How old is each twin?
- 37.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 7 times table? (a) 14 (b) 28 (c) 42 (d) 33
- 38.Half of 84 =
- 39.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 40.12345679 × 63 =
Answer key
- 63
- 198
- 11
- 5
- 8
- 7
- 48
- 43
- 172
- 47
- 6
- 64
- 6500
- 20
- 5
- 1089
- 108
- 7
- 6000
- 1
- 6
- 111111111
- 297
- 92
- 4430
- 17
- Monday
- 162
- 888888888
- 4
- 1
- 21
- 196
- Wednesday
- 22
- 6
- 33
- 42
- 594
- 777777777
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