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.I thought of a number, added 6 and then doubled it. I got 22. What was my number?
- 2.Take 258. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 3.9 × 2 =
- 4.18 × 4 =
- 5.Take 62 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 6.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 7.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 45 =
- 8.43 × 100 =
- 9.What comes next? 9, 16, 25, 36, ? (a) 47 (b) 51 (c) 49 (d) 50
- 10.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 11.Think of 13. Multiply it by 4, then add 5. What number do you end with?
- 12.If today is Sunday, what day was it 15 days ago? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Tuesday (d) Saturday
- 13.A girl is 12 years old and her brother is 4 years older. How old will her brother be in 6 years?
- 14.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 15.A father is 43 years old and his son is 5. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 16.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 5. I got 35. What was my number?
- 17.Double 51 =
- 18.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 19.9 × 7 =
- 20.9 × 5 =
- 21.111 × 111 =
- 22.If today is Wednesday, what day was it 24 days ago? (a) Wednesday (b) Monday (c) Saturday (d) Sunday
- 23.Take 310. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 24.580 × 10 =
- 25.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 ? 12 | 11 9 7 | 6 13 8. What is the missing number?
- 26.Half of 32 =
- 27.9 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 28.If today is Tuesday, what day will it be after 55 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Monday (c) Sunday (d) Thursday
- 29.Double 44 =
- 30.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 74 =
- 31.594 + 495 =
- 32.123456 × 8 + 6 =
- 33.967 × ? = 9670
- 34.37 × 15 =
- 35.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 36.31 × 4 =
- 37.4?10 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 38.Take 48 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 39.7 × 9 =
- 40.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 13 =
Answer key
- 5
- 594
- 18
- 72
- 54
- 594
- 529
- 4300
- 49
- 8
- 57
- Saturday
- 22
- 297
- 38
- 10
- 102
- 0
- 63
- 45
- 12321
- Sunday
- 297
- 5800
- 5
- 16
- 6
- Monday
- 88
- 2775
- 1089
- 987654
- 10
- 555
- 7
- 124
- 4
- 36
- 63
- 49
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