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.Double 13 =
- 2.A girl is 7 years old and her brother is 6 years older. How old will her brother be in 4 years?
- 3.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 4.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 55 =
- 5.12345679 × 72 =
- 6.1?84 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 7.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 8.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 25 10 ? | 4 16 28 | 19 22 7. What is the missing number?
- 9.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 10.What comes next? 25, 36, 49, 64, ? (a) 79 (b) 83 (c) 81 (d) 82
- 11.7 × 100 =
- 12.891 + 198 =
- 13.Think of 15. Multiply it by 4, then add 8. What number do you end with?
- 14.A piggy bank has 11 coins of ₹5 and 8 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 15.693 + 396 =
- 16.16 × 4 =
- 17.Take 55 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 18.Magic trick! Think of 10. Double it, add 16, halve it, then take away 10. What number do you get?
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 24 14 16 | 10 18 26 | 20 22 ?. What is the missing number?
- 20.If today is Friday, what day was it 36 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Thursday (c) Wednesday (d) Sunday
- 21.672 × 10 =
- 22.What comes next? 9, 16, 25, 36, ? (a) 50 (b) 51 (c) 47 (d) 49
- 23.Take 294. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 24.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 25.32?8 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 26.In 2 years a boy will be 16 years old. How old was he 2 years ago?
- 27.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 81 (b) 60 (c) 80 (d) 70
- 28.9 × 2 =
- 29.365 × ? = 3650
- 30.If today is Wednesday, what day was it 15 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Monday (c) Tuesday (d) Wednesday
- 31.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 32.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 4 9 | ? 8 10 | 7 12 5. What is the missing number?
- 33.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 43 =
- 34.A girl is 10 years old and her brother is 2 years older. How old will her brother be in 9 years?
- 35.Half of 28 =
- 36.A piggy bank has 10 coins of ₹5 and 13 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 37.The 5th of a month is a Monday. What day is the 23rd of the same month? (a) Friday (b) Thursday (c) Monday (d) Saturday
- 38.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 6 times table? (a) 12 (b) 24 (c) 36 (d) 19
- 39.9 × 1 =
- 40.1234567 × 9 + 8 =
Answer key
- 26
- 17
- 891
- 1540
- 888888888
- 5
- 2
- 13
- 8
- 81
- 700
- 1089
- 68
- 71
- 1089
- 64
- 45
- 8
- 12
- Thursday
- 6720
- 49
- 198
- 3
- 5
- 12
- 80
- 18
- 10
- Tuesday
- 3
- 6
- 484
- 21
- 14
- 76
- Friday
- 19
- 9
- 11111111
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