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 + 2 + 3 + … + 69 =
- 2.In 3 years a boy will be 12 years old. How old was he 2 years ago?
- 3.72?0 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 4.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 27 =
- 5.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 8 13 | ? 12 14 | 11 16 9. What is the missing number?
- 6.12 × 8 + 2 =
- 7.The 4th of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 27th of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Friday (c) Saturday (d) Monday
- 8.A piggy bank has 9 coins of ₹5 and 2 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 9.Half of 128 =
- 10.Take 95 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 11.Magic trick! Think of 17. Double it, add 18, halve it, then take away 17. What number do you get?
- 12.?220 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 13.Double 95 =
- 14.17 × 1000 =
- 15.A girl is 6 years old and her brother is 4 years older. How old will her brother be in 6 years?
- 16.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 17.56 × 4 =
- 18.165 × 10 =
- 19.9 × 6 =
- 20.1234 × 8 + 4 =
- 21.1111 × 1111 =
- 22.?559 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 23.7 × 4 =
- 24.4 × 9 =
- 25.1234567 × 8 + 7 =
- 26.What comes next? 9, 16, 25, 36, ? (a) 47 (b) 49 (c) 50 (d) 51
- 27.14 × 4 =
- 28.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 29.Double 97 =
- 30.Double 98 =
- 31.I thought of a number, added 9 and then doubled it. I got 40. What was my number?
- 32.A father is 31 years old and his son is 9. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 33.The 4th of a month is a Saturday. What day is the 25th of the same month? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Tuesday (d) Saturday
- 34.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 9 =
- 35.Magic trick! Think of 2. Double it, add 8, halve it, then take away 2. What number do you get?
- 36.9 × 4 =
- 37.Do the 1089 trick with 376: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 38.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 6 21 ? | 27 15 3 | 12 9 24. What is the missing number?
- 39.297 + 792 =
- 40.A piggy bank has 7 coins of ₹5 and 5 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
Answer key
- 2415
- 7
- 9
- 196
- 10
- 98
- Friday
- 49
- 64
- 81
- 9
- 5
- 190
- 17000
- 16
- 8
- 224
- 1650
- 54
- 9876
- 1234321
- 8
- 28
- 36
- 9876543
- 49
- 56
- 7
- 194
- 196
- 11
- 22
- Saturday
- 25
- 4
- 36
- 1089
- 18
- 1089
- 45
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