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.In 2 years a boy will be 12 years old. How old was he 3 years ago?
- 2.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 86 =
- 3.9 × 8 =
- 4.9 × 1 =
- 5.54?1 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 6.?026 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 7.The 5th of a month is a Sunday. What day is the 29th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Thursday (c) Tuesday (d) Wednesday
- 8.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 9.?892 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 10.20 × 100 =
- 11.Double 15 =
- 12.12 × 9 + 3 =
- 13.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 14.1 × 9 =
- 15.If today is Saturday, what day was it 17 days ago? (a) Wednesday (b) Saturday (c) Thursday (d) Tuesday
- 16.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 19 4 25 | 22 16 ? | 7 28 13. What is the missing number?
- 17.42 × 4 =
- 18.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 59 days? (a) Sunday (b) Thursday (c) Friday (d) Wednesday
- 19.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 20.Take 71 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 21.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 22.You have 15 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹16. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 23.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 21 ? 33 | 36 24 12 | 15 30 27. What is the missing number?
- 24.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 45 days? (a) Wednesday (b) Tuesday (c) Thursday (d) Saturday
- 25.If today is Friday, what day will it be after 56 days? (a) Friday (b) Thursday (c) Saturday (d) Monday
- 26.?937 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 27.If today is Wednesday, what day was it 50 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Monday (c) Wednesday (d) Tuesday
- 28.In 3 years a boy will be 12 years old. How old was he 7 years ago?
- 29.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 23 8 29 | 26 20 14 | 11 32 ?. What is the missing number?
- 30.In 2 years a boy will be 11 years old. How old was he 3 years ago?
- 31.In 4 years a boy will be 13 years old. How old was he 3 years ago?
- 32.What comes next? 1, 4, 9, 16, ? (a) 23 (b) 27 (c) 26 (d) 25
- 33.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 34.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 6 27 | 24 18 12 | 9 30 15. What is the missing number?
- 35.35 × 4 =
- 36.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 37.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 78 days? (a) Monday (b) Friday (c) Wednesday (d) Tuesday
- 38.The 7th of a month is a Thursday. What day is the 17th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Monday (c) Sunday (d) Wednesday
- 39.67?3 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 40.36 × ? = 36000
Answer key
- 7
- 3741
- 72
- 9
- 8
- 1
- Wednesday
- 1
- 8
- 2000
- 30
- 111
- 8
- 9
- Wednesday
- 10
- 168
- Thursday
- 693
- 63
- 4
- 1
- 18
- Wednesday
- Friday
- 8
- Tuesday
- 2
- 17
- 6
- 6
- 25
- 7
- 21
- 140
- 0
- Tuesday
- Sunday
- 2
- 1000
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