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.What comes next? 11, 15, 19, 23, ? (a) 27 (b) 23 (c) 31 (d) 28
- 2.I thought of a number, added 6 and then doubled it. I got 34. What was my number?
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 12 7 | 6 10 ? | 13 8 9. What is the missing number?
- 4.What comes next? 4, 8, 16, 32, ? (a) 65 (b) 64 (c) 48 (d) 56
- 5.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 6.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 7.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 16 9 14 | 11 ? 15 | 12 17 10. What is the missing number?
- 8.The ages of two twins add up to 14. How old is each twin?
- 9.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 10.8 × 9 =
- 11.80 × 10 =
- 12.The 6th of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 26th of the same month? (a) Friday (b) Wednesday (c) Monday (d) Tuesday
- 13.What comes next? 3, 5, 7, 9, ? (a) 9 (b) 13 (c) 11 (d) 12
- 14.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 17 =
- 15.?033 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 16.What comes next? 2, 9, 16, 23, ? (a) 30 (b) 31 (c) 23 (d) 37
- 17.39 × 4 =
- 18.A girl is 10 years old and her brother is 3 years older. How old will her brother be in 2 years?
- 19.898 × 10 =
- 20.12345679 × 18 =
- 21.9 × 2 =
- 22.113? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 23.Take 692. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 24.Do the 1089 trick with 309: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 25.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 13 23 | 25 17 9 | 11 ? 19. What is the missing number?
- 26.10 × ? = 10000
- 27.Take 446. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 28.58 × 4 =
- 29.The 8th of a month is a Tuesday. What day is the 19th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Friday (c) Tuesday (d) Sunday
- 30.Double 91 =
- 31.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 32.What comes next? 4, 9, 16, 25, ? (a) 38 (b) 36 (c) 37 (d) 34
- 33.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 34.What comes next? 1, 4, 9, 16, ? (a) 27 (b) 25 (c) 23 (d) 26
- 35.37 × 27 =
- 36.A girl is 5 years old and her brother is 6 years older. How old will her brother be in 8 years?
- 37.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 5 10 9 | 12 8 4 | 7 6 ?. What is the missing number?
- 38.If today is Tuesday, what day will it be after 24 days? (a) Monday (b) Saturday (c) Thursday (d) Friday
- 39.In 2 years a boy will be 11 years old. How old was he 7 years ago?
- 40.18 × 100 =
Answer key
- 27
- 11
- 14
- 64
- 1
- 5
- 13
- 7
- 7
- 72
- 800
- Tuesday
- 11
- 81
- 3
- 30
- 156
- 15
- 8980
- 222222222
- 18
- 4
- 396
- 1089
- 21
- 1000
- 198
- 232
- Saturday
- 182
- 8
- 36
- 495
- 25
- 999
- 19
- 11
- Friday
- 2
- 1800
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