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 square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 30 9 24 | ? 21 27 | 18 33 12. What is the missing number?
- 2.What comes next? 36, 49, 64, 81, ? (a) 102 (b) 100 (c) 98 (d) 101
- 3.What comes next? 4, 8, 16, 32, ? (a) 56 (b) 65 (c) 48 (d) 64
- 4.You have 13 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹14. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 5.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 32 (b) 33 (c) 24 (d) 28
- 6.The ages of two twins add up to 18. How old is each twin?
- 7.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 18 13 | 16 14 12 | ? 10 17. What is the missing number?
- 8.198 + 891 =
- 9.1234567 × 9 + 8 =
- 10.24 × 4 =
- 11.36 × 4 =
- 12.Double 76 =
- 13.What comes next? 4, 9, 16, 25, ? (a) 37 (b) 34 (c) 38 (d) 36
- 14.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 86 days? (a) Thursday (b) Tuesday (c) Saturday (d) Wednesday
- 15.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 77 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Sunday (c) Monday (d) Thursday
- 16.22 × 4 =
- 17.3 × 9 =
- 18.If today is Monday, what day was it 48 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Monday (c) Tuesday (d) Wednesday
- 19.165 × ? = 1650
- 20.The ages of two twins add up to 28. How old is each twin?
- 21.693 + 396 =
- 22.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 23.Do the 1089 trick with 742: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 24.Magic trick! Think of 19. Double it, add 16, halve it, then take away 19. What number do you get?
- 25.48 × 4 =
- 26.Double 73 =
- 27.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 3 times table? (a) 10 (b) 24 (c) 9 (d) 15
- 28.Take 321. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 29.757 × ? = 7570
- 30.Take 866. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 31.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 32.31 × 1000 =
- 33.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 34.Take 29 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 35.Do the 1089 trick with 366: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 36.57 × 4 =
- 37.?419 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 38.71 × 100 =
- 39.If today is Saturday, what day was it 30 days ago? (a) Wednesday (b) Friday (c) Sunday (d) Thursday
- 40.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 8 13 | 14 10 6 | 7 12 ?. What is the missing number?
Answer key
- 15
- 100
- 64
- 1
- 32
- 9
- 15
- 1089
- 11111111
- 96
- 144
- 152
- 36
- Wednesday
- Monday
- 88
- 27
- Tuesday
- 10
- 14
- 1089
- 594
- 1089
- 8
- 192
- 146
- 10
- 198
- 10
- 198
- 8
- 31000
- 8
- 18
- 1089
- 228
- 4
- 7100
- Thursday
- 11
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