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
- 1.2?97 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 2.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 6 11 | 8 10 ? | 9 14 7. What is the missing number?
- 3.If today is Friday, what day will it be after 80 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Sunday (c) Monday (d) Thursday
- 4.Do the 1089 trick with 472: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 5.If today is Friday, what day was it 12 days ago? (a) Sunday (b) Monday (c) Wednesday (d) Saturday
- 6.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 19 =
- 7.If today is Tuesday, what day will it be after 76 days? (a) Sunday (b) Monday (c) Tuesday (d) Thursday
- 8.Take 420. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 9.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 1. I got 16. What was my number?
- 10.8 × 9 =
- 11.Think of 8. Multiply it by 5, then add 9. What number do you end with?
- 12.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 20 23 8 | 5 17 29 | 26 11 ?. What is the missing number?
- 13.571 × 10 =
- 14.Think of 4. Multiply it by 3, then add 4. What number do you end with?
- 15.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 41 =
- 16.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 17 (b) 14 (c) 16 (d) 12
- 17.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 32 17 20 | ? 23 35 | 26 29 14. What is the missing number?
- 18.Take 11 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 19.What comes next? 1, 4, 9, 16, ? (a) 23 (b) 26 (c) 27 (d) 25
- 20.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 21.1234 × 9 + 5 =
- 22.15 × ? = 15000
- 23.995 × 10 =
- 24.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 3 times table? (a) 9 (b) 18 (c) 6 (d) 10
- 25.49?7 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 26.If today is Monday, what day was it 43 days ago? (a) Monday (b) Sunday (c) Saturday (d) Wednesday
- 27.If today is Wednesday, what day was it 10 days ago? (a) Wednesday (b) Saturday (c) Sunday (d) Monday
- 28.9 × 6 =
- 29.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 8. I got 36. What was my number?
- 30.159 × ? = 1590
- 31.756 × 10 =
- 32.If today is Wednesday, what day was it 40 days ago? (a) Thursday (b) Monday (c) Saturday (d) Friday
- 33.15 × 4 =
- 34.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 19 5 | 7 11 15 | 17 3 ?. What is the missing number?
- 35.42? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 36.?026 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 37.52 × 4 =
- 38.The 6th of a month is a Sunday. What day is the 15th of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Friday (c) Wednesday (d) Monday
- 39.Magic trick! Think of 5. Double it, add 12, halve it, then take away 5. What number do you get?
- 40.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
Answer key
- 9
- 12
- Monday
- 1089
- Sunday
- 100
- Monday
- 396
- 3
- 72
- 49
- 14
- 5710
- 16
- 861
- 16
- 11
- 9
- 25
- 297
- 11111
- 1000
- 9950
- 10
- 7
- Sunday
- Sunday
- 54
- 14
- 10
- 7560
- Friday
- 60
- 13
- 3
- 1
- 208
- Tuesday
- 6
- 8
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