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
- 1.12 × 8 + 2 =
- 2.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 17 (b) 14 (c) 12 (d) 16
- 3.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 27 =
- 4.Take 45 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 5.111 × 111 =
- 6.What comes next? 4, 8, 16, 32, ? (a) 48 (b) 64 (c) 65 (d) 56
- 7.14 × 4 =
- 8.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 29 =
- 9.The 9th of a month is a Friday. What day is the 21st of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Tuesday (c) Wednesday (d) Saturday
- 10.A father is 45 years old and his son is 7. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 11.13 × 4 =
- 12.I thought of a number, added 2 and then doubled it. I got 12. What was my number?
- 13.Double 67 =
- 14.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 11 16 | 17 13 9 | 10 ? 14. What is the missing number?
- 15.114 × 10 =
- 16.144? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 17.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 18.What comes next? 3, 6, 12, 24, ? (a) 49 (b) 48 (c) 36 (d) 42
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 27 12 15 | 6 ? 30 | 21 24 9. What is the missing number?
- 20.I thought of a number, added 8 and then doubled it. I got 28. What was my number?
- 21.12 × 4 =
- 22.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 14 ? | 8 12 16 | 15 10 11. What is the missing number?
- 23.Double 82 =
- 24.39 × 100 =
- 25.43 × 4 =
- 26.Half of 164 =
- 27.37 × 3 =
- 28.Think of 15. Multiply it by 3, then add 4. What number do you end with?
- 29.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 16 11 | 10 14 18 | 17 12 13. What is the missing number?
- 30.A piggy bank has 12 coins of ₹5 and 9 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 31.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 16 11 | 10 14 18 | 17 12 ?. What is the missing number?
- 32.6 × 9 =
- 33.5?17 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 34.A father is 31 years old and his son is 6. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 35.48 × ? = 48000
- 36.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 63 =
- 37.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 16 9 | 10 12 14 | 15 8 ?. What is the missing number?
- 38.1?10 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 39.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 5 19 | 17 13 ? | 7 21 11. What is the missing number?
- 40.A father is 40 years old and his son is 12. How old was the father when the son was born?
Answer key
- 98
- 16
- 378
- 36
- 12321
- 64
- 56
- 225
- Wednesday
- 38
- 52
- 4
- 134
- 15
- 1140
- 9
- 8
- 48
- 18
- 6
- 48
- 9
- 164
- 3900
- 172
- 82
- 111
- 49
- 15
- 78
- 13
- 54
- 5
- 25
- 1000
- 2016
- 13
- 7
- 9
- 28
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