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.A girl is 5 years old and her brother is 4 years older. How old will her brother be in 6 years?
- 2.Take 89 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 3.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 4.Think of 7. Multiply it by 4, then add 1. What number do you end with?
- 5.11 × 4 =
- 6.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 12 =
- 7.515? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 8.29 × 4 =
- 9.36 × 4 =
- 10.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 35 20 | 29 23 ? | 26 11 32. What is the missing number?
- 11.52 × 4 =
- 12.The 6th of a month is a Monday. What day is the 15th of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Saturday (c) Thursday (d) Wednesday
- 13.27 × 4 =
- 14.Think of 14. Multiply it by 2, then add 5. What number do you end with?
- 15.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 21 =
- 16.10 × 9 =
- 17.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 1. I got 13. What was my number?
- 18.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 ? 4 | 3 7 11 | 10 5 6. What is the missing number?
- 19.9 × 9 =
- 20.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 40 =
- 21.24 × 4 =
- 22.396 + 693 =
- 23.33 × 4 =
- 24.What comes next? 20, 24, 28, 32, ? (a) 37 (b) 32 (c) 36 (d) 40
- 25.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 13 =
- 26.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 9. I got 21. What was my number?
- 27.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 60 =
- 28.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 14 (b) 12 (c) 16 (d) 17
- 29.4 × ? = 400
- 30.37 × 24 =
- 31.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 32.693 + 396 =
- 33.908 × ? = 9080
- 34.49?2 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 35.9 × 3 =
- 36.910 × 10 =
- 37.I thought of a number, added 2 and then doubled it. I got 42. What was my number?
- 38.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 7. I got 37. What was my number?
- 39.38 × 4 =
- 40.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 72 =
Answer key
- 15
- 72
- 1
- 29
- 44
- 78
- 7
- 116
- 144
- 17
- 208
- Wednesday
- 108
- 33
- 121
- 90
- 3
- 9
- 81
- 820
- 96
- 1089
- 132
- 36
- 49
- 3
- 1830
- 16
- 100
- 888
- 2
- 1089
- 10
- 3
- 27
- 9100
- 19
- 10
- 152
- 2628
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