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.Think of 2. Multiply it by 2, then add 1. What number do you end with?
- 2.Take 20 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 3.The 1st of a month is a Sunday. What day is the 17th of the same month? (a) Monday (b) Wednesday (c) Friday (d) Tuesday
- 4.Double 32 =
- 5.57 × 4 =
- 6.Think of 6. Multiply it by 2, then add 1. What number do you end with?
- 7.I thought of a number, added 2 and then doubled it. I got 42. What was my number?
- 8.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 60 =
- 9.123 × 8 + 3 =
- 10.Half of 28 =
- 11.29 × 1000 =
- 12.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 48 =
- 13.15 × 100 =
- 14.?942 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 15.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 19 21 11 | 9 ? 25 | 23 13 15. What is the missing number?
- 16.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 17.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 18.297 + 792 =
- 19.A father is 44 years old and his son is 8. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 20.Half of 152 =
- 21.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 14 13 | 16 12 8 | 11 10 15. What is the missing number?
- 22.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 35 =
- 23.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 13 =
- 24.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 46 days? (a) Wednesday (b) Friday (c) Sunday (d) Thursday
- 25.123 × 9 + 4 =
- 26.Double 82 =
- 27.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 8. I got 16. What was my number?
- 28.547 × 10 =
- 29.Think of 4. Multiply it by 5, then add 3. What number do you end with?
- 30.12 × 4 =
- 31.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 13 =
- 32.A father is 37 years old and his son is 11. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 33.What comes next? 19, 22, 25, 28, ? (a) 31 (b) 32 (c) 34 (d) 28
- 34.683 × ? = 6830
- 35.7 × 4 =
- 36.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 98 =
- 37.4?17 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 38.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 4 9 | 6 8 10 | 7 12 5. What is the missing number?
- 39.Double 22 =
- 40.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
Answer key
- 5
- 18
- Tuesday
- 64
- 228
- 13
- 19
- 1830
- 987
- 14
- 29000
- 1176
- 1500
- 3
- 17
- 3
- 7
- 1089
- 36
- 76
- 9
- 324
- 91
- Thursday
- 1111
- 164
- 4
- 5470
- 23
- 48
- 49
- 26
- 31
- 10
- 28
- 4851
- 6
- 11
- 44
- 2
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