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
- 1.52 × 4 =
- 2.89?3 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 3.58 × 4 =
- 4.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 19 =
- 5.What comes next? 16, 22, 28, 34, ? (a) 40 (b) 34 (c) 41 (d) 46
- 6.85 × 100 =
- 7.In 5 years a boy will be 17 years old. How old was he 3 years ago?
- 8.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 49 =
- 9.A father is 40 years old and his son is 11. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 10.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 23 9 19 | 13 17 ? | 15 25 11. What is the missing number?
- 11.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 ? 14 | 20 16 12 | 18 8 22. What is the missing number?
- 12.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 3 times table? (a) 9 (b) 26 (c) 18 (d) 6
- 13.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 14.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 1. I got 21. What was my number?
- 15.Take 240. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 16.What comes next? 4, 9, 16, 25, ? (a) 36 (b) 34 (c) 37 (d) 38
- 17.Do the 1089 trick with 880: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 18.I thought of a number, added 1 and then doubled it. I got 38. What was my number?
- 19.930 × 10 =
- 20.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 18 33 ? | 15 21 27 | 30 9 24. What is the missing number?
- 21.?13 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 22.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 23.Think of 6. Multiply it by 3, then add 5. What number do you end with?
- 24.If today is Thursday, what day will it be after 15 days? (a) Monday (b) Thursday (c) Friday (d) Saturday
- 25.18 × 100 =
- 26.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 15 =
- 27.Half of 22 =
- 28.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 29.41 × ? = 4100
- 30.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 31 10 25 | 16 22 ? | 19 34 13. What is the missing number?
- 31.24 × 4 =
- 32.Take 98 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 33.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 35 =
- 34.You have 9 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹10. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 35.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 36.9 × 5 = 4? — what is the missing digit?
- 37.If today is Saturday, what day was it 48 days ago? (a) Monday (b) Saturday (c) Sunday (d) Wednesday
- 38.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 15 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Monday (c) Wednesday (d) Friday
- 39.16 × 100 =
- 40.33 × 4 =
Answer key
- 208
- 7
- 232
- 100
- 40
- 8500
- 9
- 1225
- 29
- 21
- 24
- 26
- 8
- 5
- 198
- 36
- 1089
- 18
- 9300
- 12
- 5
- 693
- 23
- Friday
- 1800
- 64
- 11
- 2
- 100
- 28
- 96
- 81
- 630
- 1
- 198
- 5
- Sunday
- Tuesday
- 1600
- 132
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