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 Saturday, what day will it be after 54 days? (a) Friday (b) Thursday (c) Sunday (d) Wednesday
- 2.If today is Wednesday, what day was it 29 days ago? (a) Monday (b) Wednesday (c) Friday (d) Tuesday
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 8 9 | ? 10 14 | 11 12 7. What is the missing number?
- 4.58 × 4 =
- 5.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 11 =
- 6.502 × ? = 5020
- 7.A piggy bank has 4 coins of ₹5 and 7 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 8.58 × 100 =
- 9.98 × 100 =
- 10.Think of 15. Multiply it by 4, then add 1. What number do you end with?
- 11.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 12.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 10 =
- 13.2?51 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 14.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 15.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 81 (b) 60 (c) 70 (d) 80
- 16.A father is 45 years old and his son is 10. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 17.1234567 × 9 + 8 =
- 18.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 35 =
- 19.A father is 30 years old and his son is 14. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 20.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 21.The 3rd of a month is a Friday. What day is the 30th of the same month? (a) Wednesday (b) Sunday (c) Thursday (d) Friday
- 22.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 46 =
- 23.Take 32 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 24.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 45 =
- 25.9 × 7 =
- 26.37 × 27 =
- 27.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 6 27 12 | 21 15 9 | 18 3 ?. What is the missing number?
- 28.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 29.Double 38 =
- 30.3 × 9 =
- 31.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 32.The ages of two twins add up to 16. How old is each twin?
- 33.Take 638. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 34.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 5 ? | 3 7 11 | 8 9 4. What is the missing number?
- 35.21 × 4 =
- 36.54 × 4 =
- 37.Take 660. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 38.1234 × 9 + 5 =
- 39.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 40.Take 770. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
Answer key
- Thursday
- Tuesday
- 6
- 232
- 36
- 10
- 34
- 5800
- 9800
- 61
- 396
- 55
- 1
- 6
- 80
- 35
- 11111111
- 324
- 16
- 198
- Thursday
- 1081
- 27
- 1035
- 63
- 999
- 24
- 1
- 76
- 27
- 3
- 8
- 198
- 6
- 84
- 216
- 594
- 11111
- 7
- 693
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