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
- 1.5 × 9 =
- 2.51 × 4 =
- 3.9 × 9 =
- 4.12345679 × 81 =
- 5.8 × 9 =
- 6.46 × 100 =
- 7.12 × 1000 =
- 8.What comes next? 3, 6, 12, 24, ? (a) 48 (b) 49 (c) 36 (d) 42
- 9.What comes next? 12, 15, 18, 21, ? (a) 24 (b) 27 (c) 25 (d) 21
- 10.37 × 12 =
- 11.693 + 396 =
- 12.Take 54 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 13.Take 862. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 14.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 10 ? | 22 14 6 | 8 18 16. What is the missing number?
- 15.11111 × 11111 =
- 16.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 17.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 34 19 | ? 22 16 | 25 10 31. What is the missing number?
- 18.If today is Friday, what day was it 36 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Thursday (c) Sunday (d) Wednesday
- 19.744? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 20.?214 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 21.I thought of a number, added 8 and then doubled it. I got 48. What was my number?
- 22.12345679 × 72 =
- 23.In 5 years a boy will be 13 years old. How old was he 6 years ago?
- 24.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 22 =
- 25.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 26.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 5 12 7 | 10 8 6 | ? 4 11. What is the missing number?
- 27.A father is 41 years old and his son is 11. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 28.Double 51 =
- 29.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 30.9 × 1 =
- 31.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 24 =
- 32.Double 76 =
- 33.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 34.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 35.297 + 792 =
- 36.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 70 (b) 81 (c) 80 (d) 60
- 37.3 × 9 =
- 38.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 24 9 12 | 3 15 27 | 18 21 ?. What is the missing number?
- 39.Double 29 =
- 40.1 × 9 =
Answer key
- 45
- 204
- 81
- 999999999
- 72
- 4600
- 12000
- 48
- 24
- 444
- 1089
- 45
- 594
- 20
- 123454321
- 4
- 28
- Thursday
- 3
- 2
- 16
- 888888888
- 2
- 253
- 6
- 9
- 30
- 102
- 198
- 9
- 300
- 152
- 297
- 5
- 1089
- 80
- 27
- 6
- 58
- 9
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