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?
- 2.9 × 9 =
- 3.9 × 7 =
- 4.Half of 108 =
- 5.42 × 4 =
- 6.What comes next? 25, 36, 49, 64, ? (a) 83 (b) 81 (c) 79 (d) 82
- 7.10 × 4 =
- 8.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 46 =
- 9.The ages of two twins add up to 30. How old is each twin?
- 10.Take 14 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 11.5 × 1000 =
- 12.The ages of two twins add up to 14. How old is each twin?
- 13.Do the 1089 trick with 702: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 14.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 5 12 7 | 10 ? 6 | 9 4 11. What is the missing number?
- 15.In 5 years a boy will be 17 years old. How old was he 7 years ago?
- 16.Take 755. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 17.10 × 9 =
- 18.9 × 10 =
- 19.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 58 =
- 20.37 × 9 =
- 21.8 × 9 =
- 22.40 × 1000 =
- 23.In 5 years a boy will be 14 years old. How old was he 4 years ago?
- 24.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 30 9 24 | 15 21 ? | 18 33 12. What is the missing number?
- 25.6 × 9 =
- 26.352 × 10 =
- 27.If today is Monday, what day was it 20 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Wednesday (c) Tuesday (d) Monday
- 28.Half of 102 =
- 29.51 × 100 =
- 30.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 18 ? 14 | 8 12 16 | 10 20 6. What is the missing number?
- 31.15 × 4 =
- 32.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 9 16 | 15 13 11 | 10 ? 12. What is the missing number?
- 33.Double 82 =
- 34.111 × 111 =
- 35.17 × 4 =
- 36.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 37.Take 920. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 38.If today is Sunday, what day was it 39 days ago? (a) Saturday (b) Tuesday (c) Thursday (d) Wednesday
- 39.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 48 days? (a) Monday (b) Saturday (c) Thursday (d) Friday
- 40.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
Answer key
- 1089
- 81
- 63
- 54
- 168
- 81
- 40
- 1081
- 15
- 9
- 5000
- 7
- 1089
- 8
- 5
- 198
- 90
- 90
- 1711
- 333
- 72
- 40000
- 5
- 27
- 54
- 3520
- Tuesday
- 51
- 5100
- 4
- 60
- 17
- 164
- 12321
- 68
- 792
- 891
- Wednesday
- Friday
- 594
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