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.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 32 ? 20 | 11 23 35 | 26 29 14. What is the missing number?
- 2.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 81 (b) 60 (c) 80 (d) 70
- 3.9 × 3 =
- 4.2 × 9 =
- 5.59 × 4 =
- 6.Think of 14. Multiply it by 2, then add 6. What number do you end with?
- 7.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 16 15 | 18 14 10 | ? 12 17. What is the missing number?
- 8.37 × 24 =
- 9.1 × 9 =
- 10.Half of 82 =
- 11.9 × 2 =
- 12.Do the 1089 trick with 125: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 13.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 2 ? 4 | 7 5 3 | 6 1 8. What is the missing number?
- 14.30 × ? = 3000
- 15.If today is Tuesday, what day was it 50 days ago? (a) Sunday (b) Tuesday (c) Monday (d) Thursday
- 16.9 × 8 =
- 17.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 18.28 × 4 =
- 19.Take 48 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 20.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 11 =
- 21.396 + 693 =
- 22.11 × 11 =
- 23.Think of 5. Multiply it by 3, then add 1. What number do you end with?
- 24.Think of 11. Multiply it by 2, then add 8. What number do you end with?
- 25.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 41 =
- 26.40 × 4 =
- 27.37 × 21 =
- 28.If today is Thursday, what day will it be after 43 days? (a) Saturday (b) Thursday (c) Friday (d) Monday
- 29.3 × 9 =
- 30.Double 65 =
- 31.What comes next? 1, 4, 9, 16, ? (a) 26 (b) 27 (c) 23 (d) 25
- 32.Half of 98 =
- 33.Double 24 =
- 34.10 × 4 =
- 35.27 × 4 =
- 36.9 × 6 =
- 37.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 44 =
- 38.693 + 396 =
- 39.6 × 4 =
- 40.What comes next? 6, 10, 14, 18, ? (a) 23 (b) 18 (c) 26 (d) 22
Answer key
- 17
- 80
- 27
- 18
- 236
- 34
- 13
- 888
- 9
- 41
- 18
- 1089
- 9
- 100
- Monday
- 72
- 4
- 112
- 36
- 36
- 1089
- 121
- 16
- 30
- 441
- 160
- 777
- Friday
- 27
- 130
- 25
- 49
- 48
- 40
- 108
- 54
- 990
- 1089
- 24
- 22
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