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
- 1.9 × 9 =
- 2.3 × 9 =
- 3.12 × 4 =
- 4.59 × 4 =
- 5.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 9 24 | 27 15 3 | 6 ? 18. What is the missing number?
- 6.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 73 =
- 7.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 15 5 | 3 11 ? | 17 7 9. What is the missing number?
- 8.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 9.514 × 10 =
- 10.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 11.2 × 9 =
- 12.297 + 792 =
- 13.123 × 8 + 3 =
- 14.In 3 years a boy will be 17 years old. How old was he 6 years ago?
- 15.I thought of a number, added 5 and then doubled it. I got 18. What was my number?
- 16.45 × ? = 45000
- 17.24 × 4 =
- 18.10?4 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 19.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 20.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 29 14 ? | 8 20 32 | 23 26 11. What is the missing number?
- 21.419 × 10 =
- 22.50 × 4 =
- 23.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 24.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 60 (b) 81 (c) 70 (d) 80
- 25.?816 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 26.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 27.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 2 ? 6 | 9 5 1 | 4 3 8. What is the missing number?
- 28.Do the 1089 trick with 357: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 29.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 41 =
- 30.Magic trick! Think of 6. Double it, add 16, halve it, then take away 6. What number do you get?
- 31.12345679 × 27 =
- 32.A girl is 6 years old and her brother is 6 years older. How old will her brother be in 5 years?
- 33.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 5. I got 26. What was my number?
- 34.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 19 =
- 35.32 × ? = 32000
- 36.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 6 ? 12 | 21 15 9 | 18 3 24. What is the missing number?
- 37.A girl is 12 years old and her brother is 2 years older. How old will her brother be in 7 years?
- 38.8 × 4 =
- 39.10 × 9 =
- 40.891 + 198 =
Answer key
- 81
- 27
- 48
- 236
- 21
- 2701
- 19
- 3
- 5140
- 9
- 18
- 1089
- 987
- 8
- 4
- 1000
- 96
- 4
- 2
- 17
- 4190
- 200
- 7
- 80
- 3
- 1
- 7
- 1089
- 441
- 8
- 333333333
- 17
- 7
- 100
- 1000
- 27
- 21
- 32
- 90
- 1089
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