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
- 1.45 × 4 =
- 2.9 × 7 =
- 3.12345679 × 54 =
- 4.9 × 5 = 4? — what is the missing digit?
- 5.If today is Sunday, what day was it 56 days ago? (a) Monday (b) Saturday (c) Sunday (d) Wednesday
- 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?
- 7.104? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 8.Do the 1089 trick with 239: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 9.Take 22 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 10.Do the 1089 trick with 830: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 11.The 4th of a month is a Thursday. What day is the 13th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Tuesday (c) Friday (d) Sunday
- 12.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 9 4 | ? 7 11 | 10 5 6. What is the missing number?
- 13.1234 × 9 + 5 =
- 14.35 × 4 =
- 15.The 3rd of a month is a Tuesday. What day is the 26th of the same month? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Thursday (d) Wednesday
- 16.If today is Thursday, what day was it 55 days ago? (a) Thursday (b) Friday (c) Monday (d) Saturday
- 17.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 18.Half of 82 =
- 19.9 × 4 =
- 20.38 × ? = 38000
- 21.What comes next? 1, 4, 7, 10, ? (a) 10 (b) 13 (c) 16 (d) 14
- 22.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 48 days? (a) Monday (b) Friday (c) Saturday (d) Thursday
- 23.A father is 43 years old and his son is 12. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 24.10 × 9 =
- 25.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 19 =
- 26.Half of 32 =
- 27.693 + 396 =
- 28.Take 60 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 29.The ages of two twins add up to 26. How old is each twin?
- 30.?971 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 31.213 × ? = 2130
- 32.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 33.Double 96 =
- 34.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 1. I got 21. What was my number?
- 35.Do the 1089 trick with 915: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 36.1111 × 1111 =
- 37.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 7 8 | 5 9 13 | 10 11 ?. What is the missing number?
- 38.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 6 times table? (a) 36 (b) 30 (c) 28 (d) 12
- 39.32 × 1000 =
- 40.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 6 times table? (a) 12 (b) 31 (c) 42 (d) 30
Answer key
- 180
- 63
- 666666666
- 5
- Sunday
- 9
- 4
- 1089
- 18
- 1089
- Saturday
- 3
- 11111
- 140
- Thursday
- Friday
- 0
- 41
- 36
- 1000
- 13
- Friday
- 31
- 90
- 100
- 16
- 1089
- 54
- 13
- 1
- 10
- 3
- 192
- 4
- 1089
- 1234321
- 6
- 28
- 32000
- 31
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