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
- 1.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 37 =
- 2.Think of 9. Multiply it by 5, then add 1. What number do you end with?
- 3.Take 99 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 4.A father is 33 years old and his son is 4. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 5.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 11 =
- 6.9 × 8 =
- 7.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 2 7 | 4 6 8 | 5 ? 3. What is the missing number?
- 8.6 × 9 =
- 9.Double 74 =
- 10.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 11.840 × 10 =
- 12.What comes next? 3, 6, 12, 24, ? (a) 42 (b) 36 (c) 48 (d) 49
- 13.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 16 9 | 10 ? 14 | 15 8 13. What is the missing number?
- 14.The 1st of a month is a Saturday. What day is the 29th of the same month? (a) Sunday (b) Tuesday (c) Friday (d) Saturday
- 15.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 18 15 30 | 33 ? 9 | 12 27 24. What is the missing number?
- 16.396 + 693 =
- 17.12 × 9 + 3 =
- 18.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 19.If today is Sunday, what day was it 35 days ago? (a) Wednesday (b) Monday (c) Sunday (d) Saturday
- 20.9 × 5 = 4? — what is the missing digit?
- 21.123456789 × 8 + 9 =
- 22.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 23.3 × 9 =
- 24.In 3 years a boy will be 13 years old. How old was he 7 years ago?
- 25.48 × 4 =
- 26.123456 × 8 + 6 =
- 27.A girl is 12 years old and her brother is 2 years older. How old will her brother be in 8 years?
- 28.8 × 9 =
- 29.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 ? 8 | 11 17 23 | 26 5 20. What is the missing number?
- 30.46 × 100 =
- 31.3 × 1000 =
- 32.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 30 27 | ? 24 12 | 21 18 33. What is the missing number?
- 33.Double 71 =
- 34.?874 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 35.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 9 =
- 36.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 37.A girl is 7 years old and her brother is 5 years older. How old will her brother be in 8 years?
- 38.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 25 28 13 | 10 22 34 | 31 16 ?. What is the missing number?
- 39.?294 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 40.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
Answer key
- 361
- 46
- 81
- 29
- 36
- 72
- 10
- 54
- 148
- 6
- 8400
- 48
- 12
- Saturday
- 21
- 1089
- 111
- 1
- Sunday
- 5
- 987654321
- 2
- 27
- 3
- 192
- 987654
- 22
- 72
- 29
- 4600
- 3000
- 36
- 142
- 8
- 25
- 7
- 20
- 19
- 3
- 0
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