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
- 1.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 77 =
- 2.What comes next? 10, 17, 24, 31, ? (a) 31 (b) 45 (c) 38 (d) 39
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 16 31 10 | 13 19 ? | 28 7 22. What is the missing number?
- 4.2 × 9 =
- 5.11 × 11 =
- 6.Half of 74 =
- 7.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 15 ? | 27 19 11 | 13 23 21. What is the missing number?
- 8.50 × 4 =
- 9.A girl is 6 years old and her brother is 2 years older. How old will her brother be in 5 years?
- 10.A father is 38 years old and his son is 11. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 11.22 × 100 =
- 12.495 + 594 =
- 13.198 + 891 =
- 14.47 × 4 =
- 15.Take 169. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 16.Take 32 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 17.12345679 × 81 =
- 18.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 19.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 2. I got 22. What was my number?
- 20.1234567 × 9 + 8 =
- 21.51 × 4 =
- 22.15 × 4 =
- 23.396 + 693 =
- 24.I thought of a number, added 5 and then doubled it. I got 32. What was my number?
- 25.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 10 ? | 28 16 4 | 7 22 19. What is the missing number?
- 26.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 17 =
- 27.?745 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 28.7 × 9 =
- 29.What comes next? 36, 49, 64, 81, ? (a) 100 (b) 98 (c) 101 (d) 102
- 30.1 × 9 =
- 31.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 27 17 | 23 19 15 | 21 ? 25. What is the missing number?
- 32.The ages of two twins add up to 10. How old is each twin?
- 33.9 × 8 =
- 34.38 × 100 =
- 35.37 × 6 =
- 36.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 9. I got 23. What was my number?
- 37.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 27 =
- 38.What comes next? 1, 4, 9, 16, ? (a) 25 (b) 27 (c) 26 (d) 23
- 39.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 64 =
- 40.Do the 1089 trick with 790: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
Answer key
- 3003
- 38
- 25
- 18
- 121
- 37
- 25
- 200
- 13
- 27
- 2200
- 1089
- 1089
- 188
- 792
- 27
- 999999999
- 8
- 5
- 11111111
- 204
- 60
- 1089
- 11
- 25
- 81
- 2
- 63
- 100
- 9
- 11
- 5
- 72
- 3800
- 222
- 7
- 378
- 25
- 2080
- 1089
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