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.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 8 13 | 14 10 6 | 7 ? 11. What is the missing number?
- 2.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 3.Double 24 =
- 4.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 16 6 8 | 2 10 ? | 12 14 4. What is the missing number?
- 5.Magic trick! Think of 14. Double it, add 6, halve it, then take away 14. What number do you get?
- 6.Double 15 =
- 7.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 8.Magic trick! Think of 16. Double it, add 6, halve it, then take away 16. What number do you get?
- 9.Half of 138 =
- 10.Double 71 =
- 11.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 4 times table? (a) 20 (b) 14 (c) 32 (d) 12
- 12.169? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 13.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 61 =
- 14.95 × 10 =
- 15.Take 17 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 16.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 17.891 + 198 =
- 18.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 11 =
- 19.37 × 21 =
- 20.45 × 4 =
- 21.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 30 ? 18 | 9 21 33 | 24 27 12. What is the missing number?
- 22.Half of 174 =
- 23.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 14 4 | ? 10 18 | 16 6 8. What is the missing number?
- 24.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 24 =
- 25.A father is 32 years old and his son is 11. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 26.Take 751. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 27.The ages of two twins add up to 18. How old is each twin?
- 28.10 × 9 =
- 29.9 × 7 =
- 30.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 31.2 × 9 =
- 32.66?3 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 33.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 22 19 | 28 16 4 | 13 10 ?. What is the missing number?
- 34.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 18 ? | 12 14 16 | 17 10 15. What is the missing number?
- 35.363 × ? = 3630
- 36.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 30 27 | 36 24 12 | 21 ? 33. What is the missing number?
- 37.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 38.9 × 9 = 8? — what is the missing digit?
- 39.What comes next? 25, 36, 49, 64, ? (a) 83 (b) 79 (c) 82 (d) 81
- 40.9 × 4 =
Answer key
- 12
- 8
- 48
- 18
- 3
- 30
- 3
- 3
- 69
- 142
- 14
- 2
- 1891
- 950
- 9
- 693
- 1089
- 36
- 777
- 180
- 15
- 87
- 2
- 300
- 21
- 594
- 9
- 90
- 63
- 7
- 18
- 3
- 25
- 11
- 10
- 18
- 4
- 1
- 81
- 36
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