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.What comes next? 25, 36, 49, 64, ? (a) 79 (b) 82 (c) 83 (d) 81
- 2.9 × 5 =
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 18 20 ? | 8 16 24 | 22 12 14. What is the missing number?
- 4.If today is Monday, what day was it 17 days ago? (a) Saturday (b) Monday (c) Friday (d) Thursday
- 5.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 12 17 | 18 14 10 | ? 16 15. What is the missing number?
- 6.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 21 =
- 7.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 2. I got 62. What was my number?
- 8.99 × ? = 990
- 9.693 + 396 =
- 10.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 21 6 27 | 24 18 12 | ? 30 15. What is the missing number?
- 11.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 12.26 × 100 =
- 13.11111 × 11111 =
- 14.24 × 100 =
- 15.Double 53 =
- 16.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 27 12 33 | 30 ? 18 | 15 36 21. What is the missing number?
- 17.Double 93 =
- 18.396 + 693 =
- 19.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 20.Double 63 =
- 21.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 9. I got 18. What was my number?
- 22.50 × 4 =
- 23.17 × ? = 17000
- 24.If today is Sunday, what day was it 22 days ago? (a) Tuesday (b) Saturday (c) Friday (d) Sunday
- 25.1 × 9 =
- 26.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 27.2 × 9 =
- 28.Double 27 =
- 29.Double 15 =
- 30.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 9 =
- 31.If today is Thursday, what day was it 23 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Monday (c) Tuesday (d) Wednesday
- 32.37 × 9 =
- 33.49 × 1000 =
- 34.A piggy bank has 12 coins of ₹5 and 6 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 35.What comes next? 4, 9, 16, 25, ? (a) 36 (b) 38 (c) 34 (d) 37
- 36.Take 952. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 37.111111 × 111111 =
- 38.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 23 13 | 19 ? 11 | 17 7 21. What is the missing number?
- 39.Do the 1089 trick with 945: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 40.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
Answer key
- 81
- 45
- 10
- Friday
- 11
- 231
- 15
- 10
- 1089
- 9
- 8
- 2600
- 123454321
- 2400
- 106
- 24
- 186
- 1089
- 2
- 126
- 3
- 200
- 1000
- Saturday
- 9
- 6
- 18
- 54
- 30
- 45
- Tuesday
- 333
- 49000
- 72
- 36
- 693
- 12345654321
- 15
- 1089
- 891
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