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.If today is Wednesday, what day will it be after 76 days? (a) Friday (b) Tuesday (c) Monday (d) Wednesday
- 2.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 96 days? (a) Friday (b) Saturday (c) Monday (d) Thursday
- 3.34 × 1000 =
- 4.Half of 128 =
- 5.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 6.What comes next? 36, 49, 64, 81, ? (a) 98 (b) 102 (c) 101 (d) 100
- 7.2 × ? = 200
- 8.2?61 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 9.7 × 1000 =
- 10.I thought of a number, added 7 and then doubled it. I got 34. What was my number?
- 11.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 22 19 | 28 16 4 | 13 10 25. What is the missing number?
- 12.Do the 1089 trick with 840: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 13.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 14.9 × 4 =
- 15.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 71 days? (a) Sunday (b) Tuesday (c) Thursday (d) Monday
- 16.I thought of a number, added 9 and then doubled it. I got 48. What was my number?
- 17.31 × 4 =
- 18.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 19.Do the 1089 trick with 900: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 20.Think of 11. Multiply it by 2, then add 9. What number do you end with?
- 21.Magic trick! Think of 14. Double it, add 14, halve it, then take away 14. What number do you get?
- 22.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 9 2 | 3 5 7 | 8 1 6. What is the missing number?
- 23.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 24.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 39 =
- 25.792 + 297 =
- 26.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 27.35 × 1000 =
- 28.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 33 =
- 29.Double 97 =
- 30.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 31.If today is Friday, what day was it 42 days ago? (a) Monday (b) Saturday (c) Thursday (d) Friday
- 32.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 30 =
- 33.10 × 9 =
- 34.11 × 4 =
- 35.Do the 1089 trick with 577: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 36.Do the 1089 trick with 960: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 37.9 × 6 =
- 38.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 8. I got 56. What was my number?
- 39.39 × 1000 =
- 40.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
Answer key
- Tuesday
- Friday
- 34000
- 64
- 891
- 100
- 100
- 9
- 7000
- 10
- 7
- 1089
- 7
- 36
- Monday
- 15
- 124
- 8
- 1089
- 31
- 7
- 4
- 4
- 780
- 1089
- 9
- 35000
- 289
- 194
- 6
- Friday
- 465
- 90
- 44
- 1089
- 1089
- 54
- 12
- 39000
- 8
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