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.Take 27 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 2.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 3.20 × 100 =
- 4.I thought of a number, added 6 and then doubled it. I got 22. What was my number?
- 5.37 × 12 =
- 6.16?6 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 7.9 × 1 =
- 8.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 9.9 × 5 =
- 10.12345 × 9 + 6 =
- 11.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 8 times table? (a) 32 (b) 51 (c) 48 (d) 40
- 12.In 5 years a boy will be 19 years old. How old was he 7 years ago?
- 13.9 × 10 =
- 14.Take 92 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 15.Half of 92 =
- 16.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 17.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 28 =
- 18.36 × 4 =
- 19.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 49 days? (a) Monday (b) Wednesday (c) Saturday (d) Sunday
- 20.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 94 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Monday (c) Friday (d) Wednesday
- 21.Take 258. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 22.17 × 4 =
- 23.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 24.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 5 10 | 7 9 11 | 8 13 6. What is the missing number?
- 25.85?3 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 26.If today is Thursday, what day was it 56 days ago? (a) Thursday (b) Wednesday (c) Friday (d) Sunday
- 27.If today is Friday, what day will it be after 70 days? (a) Saturday (b) Thursday (c) Monday (d) Friday
- 28.123456 × 9 + 7 =
- 29.In 2 years a boy will be 10 years old. How old was he 3 years ago?
- 30.742 × ? = 7420
- 31.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 32.Think of 2. Multiply it by 4, then add 1. What number do you end with?
- 33.Think of 6. Multiply it by 5, then add 6. What number do you end with?
- 34.Double 14 =
- 35.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 4 times table? (a) 32 (b) 28 (c) 13 (d) 16
- 36.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 37 =
- 37.What comes next? 1, 10, 19, 28, ? (a) 37 (b) 38 (c) 28 (d) 46
- 38.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 36 =
- 39.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 8 ? | 14 10 6 | 7 12 11. What is the missing number?
- 40.111111 × 111111 =
Answer key
- 18
- 3
- 2000
- 5
- 444
- 5
- 9
- 8
- 45
- 111111
- 51
- 7
- 90
- 81
- 46
- 5
- 406
- 144
- Sunday
- Tuesday
- 594
- 68
- 9
- 12
- 2
- Thursday
- Friday
- 1111111
- 5
- 10
- 2
- 9
- 36
- 28
- 13
- 361
- 37
- 666
- 13
- 12345654321
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