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.A father is 31 years old and his son is 9. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 2.9 × 9 =
- 3.6?73 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 4.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 20 35 14 | 17 23 29 | 32 11 ?. What is the missing number?
- 5.7 × ? = 7000
- 6.59 × 4 =
- 7.123456 × 9 + 7 =
- 8.Take 13 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 9.9 × 10 =
- 10.In 4 years a boy will be 15 years old. How old was he 5 years ago?
- 11.6 × 9 =
- 12.17 × 4 =
- 13.Take 146. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 14.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 5 10 3 | 4 ? 8 | 9 2 7. What is the missing number?
- 15.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 16.52 × 4 =
- 17.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 6 =
- 18.A girl is 7 years old and her brother is 4 years older. How old will her brother be in 8 years?
- 19.12345679 × 45 =
- 20.Take 380. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 21.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 26 days? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Tuesday (d) Saturday
- 22.297 + 792 =
- 23.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 3 10 | 9 7 ? | 4 11 6. What is the missing number?
- 24.111 × 111 =
- 25.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 26.315 × 10 =
- 27.314? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 28.The ages of two twins add up to 26. How old is each twin?
- 29.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 45 =
- 30.What comes next? 5, 7, 9, 11, ? (a) 14 (b) 15 (c) 11 (d) 13
- 31.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 32.60 × 4 =
- 33.37 × 3 =
- 34.Take 81 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 35.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 28 (b) 32 (c) 24 (d) 33
- 36.9 × 9 = 8? — what is the missing digit?
- 37.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 26 12 | 14 18 22 | 24 10 20. What is the missing number?
- 38.Take 986. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.228 × 10 =
- 40.Double 98 =
Answer key
- 22
- 81
- 2
- 26
- 1000
- 236
- 1111111
- 9
- 90
- 6
- 54
- 68
- 495
- 6
- 0
- 208
- 21
- 19
- 555555555
- 297
- Saturday
- 1089
- 5
- 12321
- 6
- 3150
- 1
- 13
- 529
- 13
- 8
- 240
- 111
- 72
- 32
- 1
- 16
- 297
- 2280
- 196
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