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 + … + 19 =
- 2.29 × 4 =
- 3.Half of 46 =
- 4.Double 51 =
- 5.12345679 × 18 =
- 6.In 6 years a boy will be 15 years old. How old was he 4 years ago?
- 7.75 × 100 =
- 8.770 × 10 =
- 9.41 × 4 =
- 10.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 7 =
- 11.396 + 693 =
- 12.148? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 13.Half of 72 =
- 14.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 22 ? | 28 16 4 | 13 10 25. What is the missing number?
- 15.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 20 6 | 8 12 16 | 18 4 ?. What is the missing number?
- 16.297 + 792 =
- 17.13 × 4 =
- 18.57 × 4 =
- 19.33?7 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 20.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 49 =
- 21.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 4. I got 24. What was my number?
- 22.1234 × 9 + 5 =
- 23.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 24.198 + 891 =
- 25.The 5th of a month is a Thursday. What day is the 30th of the same month? (a) Sunday (b) Thursday (c) Monday (d) Tuesday
- 26.29 × ? = 290
- 27.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 27 6 | 9 15 ? | 24 3 18. What is the missing number?
- 28.6 × 9 =
- 29.86 × ? = 8600
- 30.Magic trick! Think of 4. Double it, add 6, halve it, then take away 4. What number do you get?
- 31.Double 79 =
- 32.The 2nd of a month is a Thursday. What day is the 29th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Thursday (c) Wednesday (d) Tuesday
- 33.2?81 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 34.A piggy bank has 9 coins of ₹5 and 3 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 35.Take 764. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 36.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 6 times table? (a) 36 (b) 18 (c) 48 (d) 32
- 37.The 2nd of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 13th of the same month? (a) Monday (b) Saturday (c) Sunday (d) Wednesday
- 38.What comes next? 1, 4, 9, 16, ? (a) 25 (b) 26 (c) 27 (d) 23
- 39.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 29 =
- 40.?520 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
Answer key
- 100
- 116
- 23
- 102
- 222222222
- 5
- 7500
- 7700
- 164
- 28
- 1089
- 5
- 36
- 19
- 14
- 1089
- 52
- 228
- 5
- 625
- 4
- 11111
- 693
- 1089
- Monday
- 10
- 21
- 54
- 100
- 3
- 158
- Wednesday
- 7
- 51
- 297
- 32
- Sunday
- 25
- 435
- 2
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