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 Sunday, what day will it be after 53 days? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Thursday (d) Wednesday
- 2.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 3. I got 73. What was my number?
- 3.A girl is 9 years old and her brother is 4 years older. How old will her brother be in 8 years?
- 4.15 × ? = 15000
- 5.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 15 14 | 17 13 9 | 12 ? 16. What is the missing number?
- 6.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 7.583 × 10 =
- 8.The 8th of a month is a Friday. What day is the 19th of the same month? (a) Friday (b) Tuesday (c) Wednesday (d) Monday
- 9.What comes next? 18, 25, 32, 39, ? (a) 46 (b) 53 (c) 47 (d) 39
- 10.81 × 100 =
- 11.Do the 1089 trick with 539: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 12.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 39 =
- 13.2?55 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 14.714? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 15.A girl is 11 years old and her brother is 5 years older. How old will her brother be in 2 years?
- 16.Double 33 =
- 17.If today is Tuesday, what day will it be after 38 days? (a) Thursday (b) Saturday (c) Monday (d) Friday
- 18.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 19.46 × 4 =
- 20.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 4 14 12 | 18 ? 2 | 8 6 16. What is the missing number?
- 21.Half of 72 =
- 22.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 3. I got 29. What was my number?
- 23.A girl is 6 years old and her brother is 3 years older. How old will her brother be in 7 years?
- 24.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 25.Take 23 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 26.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 18 20 10 | 8 16 24 | 22 12 ?. What is the missing number?
- 27.Half of 74 =
- 28.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 29.12345 × 8 + 5 =
- 30.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 31 =
- 31.9 × 4 =
- 32.12345679 × 72 =
- 33.71?5 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 34.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 15 =
- 35.Half of 62 =
- 36.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 5 ? 13 | 19 11 3 | 9 7 17. What is the missing number?
- 37.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 6 ? | 18 10 2 | 4 14 12. What is the missing number?
- 38.What comes next? 4, 9, 16, 25, ? (a) 34 (b) 38 (c) 37 (d) 36
- 39.2 × 9 =
- 40.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 7 =
Answer key
- Thursday
- 14
- 21
- 1000
- 11
- 495
- 5830
- Tuesday
- 46
- 8100
- 1089
- 400
- 6
- 6
- 18
- 66
- Friday
- 3
- 184
- 10
- 36
- 13
- 16
- 594
- 18
- 14
- 37
- 9
- 98765
- 496
- 36
- 888888888
- 5
- 64
- 31
- 15
- 16
- 36
- 18
- 28
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