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.The 1st of a month is a Friday. What day is the 9th of the same month? (a) Friday (b) Sunday (c) Tuesday (d) Saturday
- 2.48 × 4 =
- 3.If today is Thursday, what day will it be after 77 days? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Wednesday (d) Thursday
- 4.Take 286. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 5.44 × 4 =
- 6.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 16 11 12 | ? 13 17 | 14 15 10. What is the missing number?
- 7.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 47 =
- 8.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 27 30 15 | 12 24 36 | 33 18 ?. What is the missing number?
- 9.What comes next? 1, 4, 9, 16, ? (a) 25 (b) 23 (c) 26 (d) 27
- 10.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 11.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 12.37 × 27 =
- 13.In 5 years a boy will be 18 years old. How old was he 6 years ago?
- 14.792 + 297 =
- 15.4?66 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 16.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 22 days? (a) Wednesday (b) Sunday (c) Monday (d) Saturday
- 17.6 × 9 =
- 18.22 × 4 =
- 19.23 × 1000 =
- 20.I thought of a number, added 1 and then doubled it. I got 12. What was my number?
- 21.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 21 7 17 | 11 ? 19 | 13 23 9. What is the missing number?
- 22.Take 456. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 23.13 × 4 =
- 24.If today is Thursday, what day will it be after 17 days? (a) Monday (b) Wednesday (c) Sunday (d) Saturday
- 25.A father is 35 years old and his son is 4. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 26.Think of 12. Multiply it by 2, then add 8. What number do you end with?
- 27.Take 482. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 28.10 × ? = 10000
- 29.Take 19 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 30.3 × 9 =
- 31.58 × 4 =
- 32.Half of 154 =
- 33.39 × 4 =
- 34.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 35.Double 59 =
- 36.37 × 21 =
- 37.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 15 ? | 9 13 17 | 16 11 12. What is the missing number?
- 38.61?0 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 39.7 × ? = 700
- 40.I thought of a number, added 5 and then doubled it. I got 40. What was my number?
Answer key
- Saturday
- 192
- Thursday
- 396
- 176
- 9
- 1128
- 21
- 25
- 3
- 6
- 999
- 7
- 1089
- 2
- Sunday
- 54
- 88
- 23000
- 5
- 15
- 198
- 52
- Sunday
- 31
- 32
- 198
- 1000
- 9
- 27
- 232
- 77
- 156
- 2
- 118
- 777
- 10
- 2
- 100
- 15
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