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.Think of 9. Multiply it by 2, then add 2. What number do you end with?
- 2.Do the 1089 trick with 169: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 3.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 4.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 17 32 | 35 23 11 | 14 29 26. What is the missing number?
- 5.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 87 =
- 6.What comes next? 20, 24, 28, 32, ? (a) 32 (b) 36 (c) 40 (d) 37
- 7.If today is Tuesday, what day will it be after 59 days? (a) Thursday (b) Saturday (c) Friday (d) Monday
- 8.89?7 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 9.Think of 14. Multiply it by 5, then add 2. What number do you end with?
- 10.2 × 1000 =
- 11.Double 19 =
- 12.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 9 16 | 15 13 11 | 10 17 12. What is the missing number?
- 13.12345679 × 54 =
- 14.A father is 43 years old and his son is 8. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 15.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 27 24 | 33 ? 9 | 18 15 30. What is the missing number?
- 16.24 × 4 =
- 17.884 × 10 =
- 18.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 16 =
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 21 11 ? | 23 19 15 | 13 27 17. What is the missing number?
- 20.9 × 6 =
- 21.31 × 4 =
- 22.18 × 4 =
- 23.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 37 =
- 24.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 34 =
- 25.You have 5 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹8. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 26.411 × ? = 4110
- 27.Take 39 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 28.What comes next? 12, 14, 16, 18, ? (a) 18 (b) 20 (c) 22 (d) 21
- 29.10 × 9 =
- 30.Think of 5. Multiply it by 2, then add 7. What number do you end with?
- 31.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 32.28 × 4 =
- 33.661? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 34.I thought of a number, added 6 and then doubled it. I got 34. What was my number?
- 35.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 30 15 | 24 18 12 | ? 6 27. What is the missing number?
- 36.What comes next? 20, 22, 24, 26, ? (a) 26 (b) 29 (c) 28 (d) 30
- 37.If today is Monday, what day was it 42 days ago? (a) Sunday (b) Monday (c) Tuesday (d) Thursday
- 38.9 × 9 =
- 39.12345679 × 81 =
- 40.55 × 4 =
Answer key
- 20
- 1089
- 0
- 20
- 3828
- 36
- Friday
- 3
- 72
- 2000
- 38
- 14
- 666666666
- 35
- 21
- 96
- 8840
- 136
- 25
- 54
- 124
- 72
- 703
- 595
- 3
- 10
- 27
- 20
- 90
- 17
- 8
- 112
- 5
- 11
- 21
- 28
- Monday
- 81
- 999999999
- 220
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