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.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 24 27 12 | 9 21 33 | ? 15 18. What is the missing number?
- 2.8 × 9 =
- 3.48 × 4 =
- 4.9 × 9 = 8? — what is the missing digit?
- 5.Take 75 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 6.Take 765. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 7.Half of 82 =
- 8.Take 250. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 9.Take 804. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 10.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 9 ? | 3 7 11 | 10 5 6. What is the missing number?
- 11.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 7. I got 28. What was my number?
- 12.In 2 years a boy will be 14 years old. How old was he 7 years ago?
- 13.I thought of a number, added 1 and then doubled it. I got 42. What was my number?
- 14.Magic trick! Think of 17. Double it, add 16, halve it, then take away 17. What number do you get?
- 15.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 16 11 | ? 14 18 | 17 12 13. What is the missing number?
- 16.Do the 1089 trick with 331: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 17.A girl is 10 years old and her brother is 3 years older. How old will her brother be in 2 years?
- 18.5 × 9 =
- 19.40 × 4 =
- 20.Do the 1089 trick with 549: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 21.45 × ? = 45000
- 22.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 38 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Thursday (c) Saturday (d) Wednesday
- 23.The 9th of a month is a Saturday. What day is the 28th of the same month? (a) Friday (b) Wednesday (c) Sunday (d) Thursday
- 24.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 41 =
- 25.22 × 100 =
- 26.?524 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 27.32 × 4 =
- 28.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 16 11 | 14 12 10 | 13 8 15. What is the missing number?
- 29.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 1. I got 11. What was my number?
- 30.9 × 5 = 4? — what is the missing digit?
- 31.Take 29 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 32.396 + 693 =
- 33.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 49 =
- 34.44 × 1000 =
- 35.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 36.145 × 10 =
- 37.9 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 38.What comes next? 11, 13, 15, 17, ? (a) 20 (b) 21 (c) 17 (d) 19
- 39.4 × 9 =
- 40.A girl is 5 years old and her brother is 3 years older. How old will her brother be in 7 years?
Answer key
- 30
- 72
- 192
- 1
- 63
- 198
- 41
- 198
- 396
- 4
- 7
- 5
- 20
- 8
- 10
- 1089
- 15
- 45
- 160
- 1089
- 1000
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- 861
- 2200
- 7
- 128
- 9
- 5
- 5
- 18
- 1089
- 625
- 44000
- 2
- 1450
- 6
- 19
- 36
- 15
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