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 5. Double it, add 10, halve it, then take away 5. What number do you get?
- 2.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 22 =
- 3.9 × 9 =
- 4.Half of 192 =
- 5.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 11 21 | 15 19 23 | 17 27 13. What is the missing number?
- 6.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 16 ? 10 | 13 19 25 | 28 7 22. What is the missing number?
- 7.49 × 4 =
- 8.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 43 =
- 9.Double 83 =
- 10.If today is Wednesday, what day was it 48 days ago? (a) Sunday (b) Thursday (c) Wednesday (d) Friday
- 11.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 12.2 × 9 =
- 13.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 14.Do the 1089 trick with 471: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 15.549? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 16.7 × 9 =
- 17.Take 31 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 18.Take 53 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 19.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 20.9 × 4 =
- 21.44 × 4 =
- 22.Do the 1089 trick with 601: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 23.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 16 15 | 18 14 10 | ? 12 17. What is the missing number?
- 24.494 × 10 =
- 25.Take 23 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 26.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 21 =
- 27.9 × 3 =
- 28.37 × 27 =
- 29.29 × 4 =
- 30.The ages of two twins add up to 14. How old is each twin?
- 31.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 81 (b) 80 (c) 60 (d) 70
- 32.12345678 × 9 + 9 =
- 33.Do the 1089 trick with 431: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 34.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 5 10 9 | 12 8 4 | 7 6 ?. What is the missing number?
- 35.Do the 1089 trick with 631: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 36.1 × 9 =
- 37.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 28 =
- 38.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 39.80 × ? = 8000
- 40.1234567 × 8 + 7 =
Answer key
- 5
- 253
- 81
- 96
- 25
- 31
- 196
- 484
- 166
- Thursday
- 2
- 18
- 693
- 1089
- 9
- 63
- 27
- 45
- 1
- 36
- 176
- 1089
- 13
- 4940
- 18
- 231
- 27
- 999
- 116
- 7
- 80
- 111111111
- 1089
- 11
- 1089
- 9
- 406
- 4
- 100
- 9876543
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