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.Magic trick! Think of 11. Double it, add 8, halve it, then take away 11. What number do you get?
- 2.9 × 9 = 8? — what is the missing digit?
- 3.You have 13 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹23. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 4.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 21 =
- 5.49 × 4 =
- 6.12345679 × 63 =
- 7.Take 21 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 8.Double 79 =
- 9.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 7 times table? (a) 42 (b) 21 (c) 55 (d) 14
- 10.You have 8 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹13. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 11.25 × 4 =
- 12.40 × 4 =
- 13.You have 6 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹8. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 14.Do the 1089 trick with 842: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 15.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 16.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 17.123 × 9 + 4 =
- 18.Half of 72 =
- 19.Double 72 =
- 20.2 × 9 =
- 21.Magic trick! Think of 8. Double it, add 12, halve it, then take away 8. What number do you get?
- 22.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 18 8 22 | ? 16 12 | 10 24 14. What is the missing number?
- 23.9 × 2 =
- 24.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 14 13 | 16 12 8 | 11 10 ?. What is the missing number?
- 25.Half of 126 =
- 26.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 8. I got 32. What was my number?
- 27.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 28.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 29.Take 240. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 30.Magic trick! Think of 4. Double it, add 4, halve it, then take away 4. What number do you get?
- 31.Take 23 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 32.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 16 6 20 | 18 14 10 | 8 22 ?. What is the missing number?
- 33.60 × 4 =
- 34.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 36 =
- 35.84 × ? = 840
- 36.If today is Tuesday, what day will it be after 18 days? (a) Saturday (b) Tuesday (c) Sunday (d) Friday
- 37.33 × 4 =
- 38.35 × ? = 350
- 39.What comes next? 20, 24, 28, 32, ? (a) 32 (b) 37 (c) 40 (d) 36
- 40.If today is Thursday, what day was it 42 days ago? (a) Wednesday (b) Friday (c) Sunday (d) Thursday
Answer key
- 4
- 1
- 10
- 121
- 196
- 777777777
- 18
- 158
- 55
- 5
- 100
- 160
- 2
- 1089
- 594
- 1
- 1111
- 36
- 144
- 18
- 6
- 20
- 18
- 15
- 63
- 12
- 4
- 7
- 198
- 2
- 18
- 12
- 240
- 666
- 10
- Saturday
- 132
- 10
- 36
- Thursday
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