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 163. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 2.9 × 2 =
- 3.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 17 =
- 4.What comes next? 16, 25, 36, 49, ? (a) 66 (b) 65 (c) 64 (d) 62
- 5.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 6.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 7.In 3 years a boy will be 14 years old. How old was he 6 years ago?
- 8.What comes next? 15, 17, 19, 21, ? (a) 25 (b) 24 (c) 23 (d) 21
- 9.8 × 9 =
- 10.16 × 4 =
- 11.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 47 =
- 12.10 × 9 =
- 13.What comes next? 10, 18, 26, 34, ? (a) 43 (b) 50 (c) 34 (d) 42
- 14.What comes next? 25, 36, 49, 64, ? (a) 82 (b) 79 (c) 81 (d) 83
- 15.The 6th of a month is a Friday. What day is the 29th of the same month? (a) Sunday (b) Monday (c) Wednesday (d) Saturday
- 16.What comes next? 10, 13, 16, 19, ? (a) 23 (b) 22 (c) 19 (d) 25
- 17.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 18.14 × 4 =
- 19.9 × 6 =
- 20.123456 × 9 + 7 =
- 21.The 1st of a month is a Friday. What day is the 15th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Thursday (c) Monday (d) Friday
- 22.Take 730. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 23.80 × ? = 8000
- 24.37 × 3 =
- 25.Take 18 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 26.Take 40 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 27.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 28.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 19 =
- 29.12345679 × 9 =
- 30.9 × 7 =
- 31.Double 49 =
- 32.Think of 9. Multiply it by 3, then add 9. What number do you end with?
- 33.9 × 10 =
- 34.12345679 × 81 =
- 35.What comes next? 16, 22, 28, 34, ? (a) 34 (b) 46 (c) 40 (d) 41
- 36.12 × 100 =
- 37.41 × 4 =
- 38.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 39.Think of 4. Multiply it by 2, then add 9. What number do you end with?
- 40.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 33 (b) 32 (c) 28 (d) 24
Answer key
- 198
- 18
- 81
- 64
- 594
- 8
- 5
- 23
- 72
- 64
- 1128
- 90
- 42
- 81
- Sunday
- 22
- 2
- 56
- 54
- 1111111
- Friday
- 693
- 100
- 111
- 9
- 36
- 891
- 190
- 111111111
- 63
- 98
- 36
- 90
- 999999999
- 40
- 1200
- 164
- 5
- 17
- 32
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