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.Take 25 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 2.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 4 times table? (a) 20 (b) 12 (c) 28 (d) 14
- 3.What comes next? 13, 17, 21, 25, ? (a) 33 (b) 29 (c) 30 (d) 25
- 4.Magic trick! Think of 14. Double it, add 10, halve it, then take away 14. What number do you get?
- 5.Think of 9. Multiply it by 3, then add 8. What number do you end with?
- 6.43 × 4 =
- 7.What comes next? 36, 49, 64, 81, ? (a) 98 (b) 102 (c) 101 (d) 100
- 8.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 9.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 16 11 12 | 9 ? 17 | 14 15 10. What is the missing number?
- 10.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 6 13 | 12 10 8 | ? 14 9. What is the missing number?
- 11.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 12.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 23 13 ? | 9 17 25 | 19 21 11. What is the missing number?
- 13.9 × 9 = 8? — what is the missing digit?
- 14.602? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 15.9 × 6 =
- 16.What comes next? 4, 12, 20, 28, ? (a) 37 (b) 44 (c) 28 (d) 36
- 17.30 × 4 =
- 18.What comes next? 4, 8, 16, 32, ? (a) 64 (b) 56 (c) 48 (d) 65
- 19.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 20.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 21 7 | 9 13 ? | 19 5 15. What is the missing number?
- 21.Take 692. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 22.12?2 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 23.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 45 =
- 24.The 9th of a month is a Monday. What day is the 21st of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Sunday (c) Friday (d) Saturday
- 25.What comes next? 1, 4, 9, 16, ? (a) 27 (b) 26 (c) 23 (d) 25
- 26.?136 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 27.Do the 1089 trick with 245: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 28.If today is Friday, what day will it be after 56 days? (a) Saturday (b) Friday (c) Thursday (d) Monday
- 29.Double 98 =
- 30.You have 13 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹23. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 31.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 32.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 8. I got 23. What was my number?
- 33.The 4th of a month is a Saturday. What day is the 23rd of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Sunday (c) Friday (d) Wednesday
- 34.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 35.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 84 days? (a) Saturday (b) Wednesday (c) Sunday (d) Monday
- 36.What comes next? 2, 5, 8, 11, ? (a) 11 (b) 17 (c) 14 (d) 15
- 37.A piggy bank has 9 coins of ₹5 and 9 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 38.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 37 days? (a) Wednesday (b) Monday (c) Tuesday (d) Friday
- 39.A father is 42 years old and his son is 4. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 40.9 × 9 =
Answer key
- 18
- 14
- 29
- 5
- 35
- 172
- 100
- 297
- 13
- 7
- 0
- 15
- 1
- 1
- 54
- 36
- 120
- 64
- 3
- 17
- 396
- 4
- 529
- Saturday
- 25
- 8
- 1089
- Friday
- 196
- 10
- 6
- 3
- Thursday
- 1
- Sunday
- 14
- 63
- Tuesday
- 38
- 81
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