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.If today is Wednesday, what day will it be after 21 days? (a) Wednesday (b) Thursday (c) Tuesday (d) Saturday
- 2.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 3.54 × 4 =
- 4.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 60 (b) 70 (c) 80 (d) 81
- 5.4?74 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 6.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 7.I thought of a number, added 2 and then doubled it. I got 36. What was my number?
- 8.Think of 10. Multiply it by 2, then add 6. What number do you end with?
- 9.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 31 16 | 25 19 ? | 22 7 28. What is the missing number?
- 10.12345679 × 81 =
- 11.1 × 9 =
- 12.A piggy bank has 9 coins of ₹5 and 7 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 13.Take 900. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 14.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 15.5 × 9 =
- 16.12345679 × 54 =
- 17.54?8 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 18.4 × ? = 40
- 19.Think of 7. Multiply it by 2, then add 5. What number do you end with?
- 20.8 × 9 =
- 21.10 × 100 =
- 22.What comes next? 16, 21, 26, 31, ? (a) 31 (b) 41 (c) 36 (d) 37
- 23.792 + 297 =
- 24.The 5th of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 15th of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Sunday (c) Saturday (d) Friday
- 25.16 × 4 =
- 26.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 18 4 14 | 8 12 16 | ? 20 6. What is the missing number?
- 27.9 × 9 = 8? — what is the missing digit?
- 28.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 29.Half of 48 =
- 30.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 7 9 | ? 11 19 | 13 15 5. What is the missing number?
- 31.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 32.39 × 1000 =
- 33.I thought of a number, added 3 and then doubled it. I got 28. What was my number?
- 34.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 5 times table? (a) 20 (b) 10 (c) 15 (d) 18
- 35.Do the 1089 trick with 258: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 36.9 × 4 =
- 37.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 76 =
- 38.353 × 10 =
- 39.A girl is 10 years old and her brother is 6 years older. How old will her brother be in 9 years?
- 40.What comes next? 11, 19, 27, 35, ? (a) 51 (b) 43 (c) 44 (d) 35
Answer key
- Wednesday
- 7
- 216
- 80
- 3
- 8
- 16
- 26
- 13
- 999999999
- 9
- 59
- 891
- 495
- 45
- 666666666
- 1
- 10
- 19
- 72
- 1000
- 36
- 1089
- Saturday
- 64
- 10
- 1
- 1
- 24
- 3
- 5
- 39000
- 11
- 18
- 1089
- 36
- 2926
- 3530
- 25
- 43
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