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.Think of 2. Multiply it by 5, then add 2. What number do you end with?
- 2.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 2 7 | 4 6 8 | ? 10 3. What is the missing number?
- 3.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 80 (b) 60 (c) 70 (d) 81
- 4.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 5.You have 7 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹9. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 6.Half of 126 =
- 7.32 × ? = 32000
- 8.You have 12 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹23. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 9.What comes next? 6, 9, 12, 15, ? (a) 18 (b) 21 (c) 19 (d) 15
- 10.8 × ? = 800
- 11.12345 × 9 + 6 =
- 12.5 × 9 =
- 13.Take 800. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 14.If today is Thursday, what day was it 29 days ago? (a) Tuesday (b) Wednesday (c) Thursday (d) Saturday
- 15.198 + 891 =
- 16.9 × 5 = 4? — what is the missing digit?
- 17.6?81 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 18.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 19.Half of 154 =
- 20.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 32 (b) 33 (c) 24 (d) 28
- 21.246 × 10 =
- 22.In 4 years a boy will be 16 years old. How old was he 6 years ago?
- 23.1111 × 1111 =
- 24.538 × 10 =
- 25.8 × ? = 8000
- 26.58 × 4 =
- 27.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 5 times table? (a) 30 (b) 37 (c) 15 (d) 25
- 28.Half of 148 =
- 29.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 5 times table? (a) 30 (b) 15 (c) 14 (d) 40
- 30.441 × ? = 4410
- 31.A father is 42 years old and his son is 8. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 32.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 94 =
- 33.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 7. I got 72. What was my number?
- 34.37 × 12 =
- 35.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 18 =
- 36.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 63 =
- 37.Half of 24 =
- 38.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 2. I got 6. What was my number?
- 39.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 66 =
- 40.Half of 46 =
Answer key
- 12
- 5
- 80
- 891
- 2
- 63
- 1000
- 11
- 18
- 100
- 111111
- 45
- 792
- Wednesday
- 1089
- 5
- 3
- 7
- 77
- 32
- 2460
- 6
- 1234321
- 5380
- 1000
- 232
- 37
- 74
- 14
- 10
- 34
- 4465
- 13
- 444
- 171
- 2016
- 12
- 2
- 2211
- 23
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