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? 1, 4, 9, 16, ? (a) 26 (b) 25 (c) 27 (d) 23
- 2.1?49 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 10 15 | 16 12 8 | 9 14 13. What is the missing number?
- 4.21 × 100 =
- 5.Take 65 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 6.730? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 7.Take 216. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 8.Take 842. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 9.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 99 =
- 10.12345679 × 27 =
- 11.396 + 693 =
- 12.9 × 4 =
- 13.12345679 × 9 =
- 14.9 × 5 =
- 15.12345679 × 72 =
- 16.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 7 =
- 17.891 + 198 =
- 18.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 19.Take 16 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 20.The 7th of a month is a Tuesday. What day is the 15th of the same month? (a) Wednesday (b) Tuesday (c) Thursday (d) Saturday
- 21.Half of 78 =
- 22.What comes next? 3, 6, 12, 24, ? (a) 36 (b) 42 (c) 49 (d) 48
- 23.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 41 =
- 24.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 25.What comes next? 3, 9, 15, 21, ? (a) 28 (b) 33 (c) 21 (d) 27
- 26.Take 86 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 27.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 73 =
- 28.Take 34 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 29.111111 × 111111 =
- 30.11 × 4 =
- 31.2 × 100 =
- 32.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 35 =
- 33.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 46 =
- 34.A father is 31 years old and his son is 11. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 35.9 × 6 =
- 36.12 × 4 =
- 37.Think of 10. Multiply it by 4, then add 2. What number do you end with?
- 38.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 16 11 ? | 9 13 17 | 14 15 10. What is the missing number?
- 39.Magic trick! Think of 15. Double it, add 10, halve it, then take away 15. What number do you get?
- 40.8 × 9 =
Answer key
- 25
- 4
- 11
- 2100
- 54
- 8
- 396
- 594
- 4950
- 333333333
- 1089
- 36
- 111111111
- 45
- 888888888
- 28
- 1089
- 4
- 9
- Wednesday
- 39
- 48
- 861
- 1
- 27
- 72
- 2701
- 27
- 12345654321
- 44
- 200
- 324
- 1081
- 20
- 54
- 48
- 42
- 12
- 5
- 72
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