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 trick! Think of 6. Double it, add 6, halve it, then take away 6. What number do you get?
- 2.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 32 17 | 26 20 14 | ? 8 29. What is the missing number?
- 3.638 × 10 =
- 4.The 1st of a month is a Sunday. What day is the 9th of the same month? (a) Monday (b) Sunday (c) Thursday (d) Tuesday
- 5.31 × ? = 3100
- 6.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 7.32 × ? = 32000
- 8.Magic trick! Think of 19. Double it, add 6, halve it, then take away 19. What number do you get?
- 9.9 × 10 =
- 10.97? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 11.I thought of a number, added 1 and then doubled it. I got 32. What was my number?
- 12.967 × 10 =
- 13.1 × 9 =
- 14.Take 355. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 15.Magic trick! Think of 17. Double it, add 16, halve it, then take away 17. What number do you get?
- 16.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 17.10 × 9 =
- 18.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 21 7 | ? 13 17 | 19 5 15. What is the missing number?
- 19.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 20.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 20 23 8 | ? 17 29 | 26 11 14. What is the missing number?
- 21.21 × 4 =
- 22.Think of 6. Multiply it by 2, then add 2. What number do you end with?
- 23.14 × 4 =
- 24.7?77 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 25.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 47 days? (a) Friday (b) Tuesday (c) Sunday (d) Saturday
- 26.35 × 1000 =
- 27.9 × 9 =
- 28.Take 77 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 29.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 ? 21 | 30 24 18 | 27 12 33. What is the missing number?
- 30.Do the 1089 trick with 910: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 31.31 × 4 =
- 32.What comes next? 2, 5, 8, 11, ? (a) 11 (b) 14 (c) 15 (d) 17
- 33.Take 133. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 34.54 × 4 =
- 35.What comes next? 25, 36, 49, 64, ? (a) 81 (b) 82 (c) 83 (d) 79
- 36.5 × 9 =
- 37.25 × 4 =
- 38.Half of 42 =
- 39.Half of 62 =
- 40.Double 78 =
Answer key
- 3
- 23
- 6380
- Monday
- 100
- 5
- 1000
- 3
- 90
- 2
- 15
- 9670
- 9
- 198
- 8
- 3
- 90
- 9
- 2
- 5
- 84
- 14
- 56
- 6
- Saturday
- 35000
- 81
- 63
- 36
- 1089
- 124
- 14
- 198
- 216
- 81
- 45
- 100
- 21
- 31
- 156
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