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.The 3rd of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 11th of the same month? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Wednesday (d) Thursday
- 2.594 + 495 =
- 3.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 4.18 × 4 =
- 5.46 × 4 =
- 6.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 6 times table? (a) 18 (b) 19 (c) 42 (d) 24
- 7.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 18 33 12 | 15 21 ? | 30 9 24. What is the missing number?
- 8.Take 321. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 9.124 × ? = 1240
- 10.What comes next? 4, 9, 16, 25, ? (a) 37 (b) 38 (c) 36 (d) 34
- 11.51 × 100 =
- 12.3 × 9 =
- 13.12345679 × 27 =
- 14.Take 37 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 15.If today is Sunday, what day was it 10 days ago? (a) Thursday (b) Friday (c) Wednesday (d) Sunday
- 16.1234567 × 8 + 7 =
- 17.Half of 76 =
- 18.What comes next? 4, 8, 16, 32, ? (a) 48 (b) 64 (c) 65 (d) 56
- 19.What comes next? 15, 19, 23, 27, ? (a) 35 (b) 32 (c) 27 (d) 31
- 20.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 21.?805 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 22.Half of 72 =
- 23.Double 92 =
- 24.The 1st of a month is a Sunday. What day is the 25th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Tuesday (c) Thursday (d) Wednesday
- 25.37 × 9 =
- 26.12345679 × 63 =
- 27.13 × ? = 130
- 28.5 × 9 =
- 29.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 5. I got 35. What was my number?
- 30.12345 × 9 + 6 =
- 31.Do the 1089 trick with 950: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 32.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 33.Magic trick! Think of 19. Double it, add 4, halve it, then take away 19. What number do you get?
- 34.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 35.Magic trick! Think of 6. Double it, add 8, halve it, then take away 6. What number do you get?
- 36.6 × 9 =
- 37.9 × 9 =
- 38.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 39.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 40.891 + 198 =
Answer key
- Thursday
- 1089
- 6
- 72
- 184
- 19
- 27
- 198
- 10
- 36
- 5100
- 27
- 333333333
- 27
- Thursday
- 9876543
- 38
- 64
- 31
- 396
- 5
- 36
- 184
- Wednesday
- 333
- 777777777
- 10
- 45
- 6
- 111111
- 1089
- 297
- 2
- 2
- 4
- 54
- 81
- 7
- 8
- 1089
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