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
- 1.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 2.9 × 5 = 4? — what is the missing digit?
- 3.17 × 1000 =
- 4.Double 18 =
- 5.24 × 100 =
- 6.What comes next? 4, 12, 20, 28, ? (a) 44 (b) 37 (c) 28 (d) 36
- 7.59 × 4 =
- 8.Double 52 =
- 9.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 10.36 × 4 =
- 11.50 × 4 =
- 12.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 13.The 5th of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 30th of the same month? (a) Wednesday (b) Monday (c) Sunday (d) Saturday
- 14.37 × 6 =
- 15.12345 × 8 + 5 =
- 16.Half of 178 =
- 17.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 45 =
- 18.104? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 19.9 × 9 =
- 20.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 6. I got 54. What was my number?
- 21.What comes next? 4, 8, 16, 32, ? (a) 56 (b) 65 (c) 48 (d) 64
- 22.12 × 8 + 2 =
- 23.431 × 10 =
- 24.If today is Thursday, what day was it 20 days ago? (a) Saturday (b) Friday (c) Thursday (d) Monday
- 25.A girl is 7 years old and her brother is 4 years older. How old will her brother be in 4 years?
- 26.?748 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 27.Take 149. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 28.25 × 4 =
- 29.797? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 30.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 32 11 ? | 17 23 29 | 20 35 14. What is the missing number?
- 31.The 4th of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 22nd of the same month? (a) Monday (b) Wednesday (c) Sunday (d) Saturday
- 32.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 33.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 34.9 × 1 =
- 35.495 + 594 =
- 36.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 14 =
- 37.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 7. I got 55. What was my number?
- 38.8 × 9 =
- 39.Half of 32 =
- 40.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 31 10 25 | 16 22 28 | ? 34 13. What is the missing number?
Answer key
- 7
- 5
- 17000
- 36
- 2400
- 36
- 236
- 104
- 198
- 144
- 200
- 1
- Sunday
- 222
- 98765
- 89
- 529
- 4
- 81
- 12
- 64
- 98
- 4310
- Friday
- 15
- 8
- 792
- 100
- 4
- 26
- Sunday
- 396
- 4
- 9
- 1089
- 105
- 12
- 72
- 16
- 19
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