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): 26 11 14 | 5 17 29 | ? 23 8. What is the missing number?
- 2.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 3.A father is 44 years old and his son is 8. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 4.27 × ? = 27000
- 5.Magic trick! Think of 16. Double it, add 4, halve it, then take away 16. What number do you get?
- 6.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 7.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 7 2 | 1 5 9 | 8 3 4. What is the missing number?
- 8.693 + 396 =
- 9.25 × 4 =
- 10.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 22 12 | 10 18 26 | 24 14 16. What is the missing number?
- 11.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 25 =
- 12.The 2nd of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 30th of the same month? (a) Wednesday (b) Thursday (c) Tuesday (d) Saturday
- 13.46 × 4 =
- 14.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 17 7 | 5 ? 21 | 19 9 11. What is the missing number?
- 15.24 × 4 =
- 16.Take 18 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 17.20 × 1000 =
- 18.The 5th of a month is a Thursday. What day is the 13th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Thursday (c) Friday (d) Monday
- 19.Half of 122 =
- 20.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 3. I got 59. What was my number?
- 21.46 × 1000 =
- 22.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 5 10 ? | 4 6 8 | 9 2 7. What is the missing number?
- 23.Magic trick! Think of 2. Double it, add 16, halve it, then take away 2. What number do you get?
- 24.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 27 24 | 33 21 ? | 18 15 30. What is the missing number?
- 25.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 16 2 12 | ? 10 14 | 8 18 4. What is the missing number?
- 26.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 86 =
- 27.Take 138. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 28.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 29.Think of 6. Multiply it by 3, then add 1. What number do you end with?
- 30.9 × 1 =
- 31.3?80 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 32.Double 72 =
- 33.37 × 3 =
- 34.14 × ? = 14000
- 35.590 × 10 =
- 36.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 12 33 | 30 24 18 | 15 36 21. What is the missing number?
- 37.The ages of two twins add up to 8. How old is each twin?
- 38.Magic trick! Think of 9. Double it, add 12, halve it, then take away 9. What number do you get?
- 39.You have 5 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹6. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 40.56 × ? = 5600
Answer key
- 20
- 891
- 36
- 1000
- 2
- 4
- 6
- 1089
- 100
- 20
- 169
- Wednesday
- 184
- 13
- 96
- 9
- 20000
- Friday
- 61
- 14
- 46000
- 3
- 8
- 9
- 6
- 3741
- 693
- 1
- 19
- 9
- 7
- 144
- 111
- 1000
- 5900
- 27
- 4
- 6
- 1
- 100
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