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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- 1.37 × 9 =
- 2.Do the 1089 trick with 870: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 3.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 4.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 24 ? 12 | 9 21 33 | 30 15 18. What is the missing number?
- 5.The ages of two twins add up to 20. How old is each twin?
- 6.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 11 6 | 9 7 5 | 8 3 10. What is the missing number?
- 7.Double 69 =
- 8.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 9.495 + 594 =
- 10.The 3rd of a month is a Saturday. What day is the 28th of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Tuesday (c) Saturday (d) Wednesday
- 11.32 × 4 =
- 12.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 37 =
- 13.Do the 1089 trick with 936: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 14.16 × 4 =
- 15.12 × 9 + 3 =
- 16.57?0 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 17.Double 36 =
- 18.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 19.Magic trick! Think of 7. Double it, add 10, halve it, then take away 7. What number do you get?
- 20.Take 964. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 21.Do the 1089 trick with 177: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 22.The ages of two twins add up to 10. How old is each twin?
- 23.Do the 1089 trick with 513: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 24.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 4. I got 20. What was my number?
- 25.A piggy bank has 6 coins of ₹5 and 6 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 26.Do the 1089 trick with 725: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 27.536 × 10 =
- 28.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 53 =
- 29.20 × ? = 20000
- 30.17 × ? = 170
- 31.297 + 792 =
- 32.?989 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 33.Double 16 =
- 34.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 22 20 | 26 18 10 | 16 14 24. What is the missing number?
- 35.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 99 =
- 36.Take 76 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 37.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 19 =
- 38.308 × 10 =
- 39.9 × 5 = 4? — what is the missing digit?
- 40.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 3 13 | 7 11 15 | 9 19 ?. What is the missing number?
Answer key
- 333
- 1089
- 7
- 27
- 10
- 4
- 138
- 3
- 1089
- Wednesday
- 128
- 361
- 1089
- 64
- 111
- 6
- 72
- 3
- 5
- 495
- 1089
- 5
- 1089
- 8
- 42
- 1089
- 5360
- 1431
- 1000
- 10
- 1089
- 1
- 32
- 12
- 4950
- 63
- 190
- 3080
- 5
- 5
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