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.Do the 1089 trick with 940: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 2.14 × 100 =
- 3.2 × 9 =
- 4.7?1 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 5.Half of 172 =
- 6.9 × 9 =
- 7.Magic trick! Think of 14. Double it, add 18, halve it, then take away 14. What number do you get?
- 8.64?7 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 9.If today is Sunday, what day was it 51 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Thursday (c) Monday (d) Saturday
- 10.I thought of a number, added 3 and then doubled it. I got 22. What was my number?
- 11.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 12.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 13.Take 37 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 14.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 37 =
- 15.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 16 11 12 | 9 13 17 | ? 15 10. What is the missing number?
- 16.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 16 days? (a) Thursday (b) Monday (c) Sunday (d) Tuesday
- 17.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 3 times table? (a) 18 (b) 24 (c) 9 (d) 16
- 18.If today is Friday, what day will it be after 84 days? (a) Saturday (b) Monday (c) Thursday (d) Friday
- 19.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 20 =
- 20.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 4. I got 28. What was my number?
- 21.Double 45 =
- 22.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 23.9 × 10 =
- 24.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 27 6 21 | ? 18 24 | 15 30 9. What is the missing number?
- 25.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 2 9 | 8 6 4 | ? 10 5. What is the missing number?
- 26.Double 84 =
- 27.Take 562. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 28.123456789 × 8 + 9 =
- 29.693 + 396 =
- 30.396 + 693 =
- 31.59 × 4 =
- 32.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 43 =
- 33.111111 × 111111 =
- 34.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 9 =
- 35.12345679 × 81 =
- 36.Do the 1089 trick with 542: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 37.123 × 9 + 4 =
- 38.6 × 4 =
- 39.You have 8 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹13. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 40.Double 71 =
Answer key
- 1089
- 1400
- 18
- 1
- 86
- 81
- 9
- 1
- Friday
- 8
- 891
- 6
- 27
- 703
- 14
- Monday
- 16
- Friday
- 210
- 8
- 90
- 3
- 90
- 12
- 3
- 168
- 297
- 987654321
- 1089
- 1089
- 236
- 946
- 12345654321
- 25
- 999999999
- 1089
- 1111
- 24
- 5
- 142
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