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 Tuesday, what day will it be after 43 days? (a) Saturday (b) Tuesday (c) Wednesday (d) Thursday
- 2.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 31 =
- 3.46 × 1000 =
- 4.What comes next? 4, 9, 16, 25, ? (a) 34 (b) 36 (c) 38 (d) 37
- 5.A girl is 8 years old and her brother is 2 years older. How old will her brother be in 3 years?
- 6.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 6 times table? (a) 12 (b) 30 (c) 48 (d) 29
- 7.12345 × 9 + 6 =
- 8.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 19 16 31 | 34 22 10 | 13 ? 25. What is the missing number?
- 9.2 × 100 =
- 10.4 × 9 =
- 11.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 12.111 × 111 =
- 13.32 × ? = 32000
- 14.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 15.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 23 =
- 16.48 × 4 =
- 17.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 18.853 × 10 =
- 19.9 × 9 = 8? — what is the missing digit?
- 20.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 21.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 22.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 7. I got 72. What was my number?
- 23.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 90 =
- 24.8 × 4 =
- 25.Do the 1089 trick with 920: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 26.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 27.The 9th of a month is a Saturday. What day is the 20th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Thursday (c) Tuesday (d) Wednesday
- 28.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 67 =
- 29.You have 6 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹7. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 30.Take 254. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 31.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 32.Do the 1089 trick with 914: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 33.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 56 =
- 34.198 + 891 =
- 35.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 36.A girl is 9 years old and her brother is 6 years older. How old will her brother be in 2 years?
- 37.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 38.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 39.Magic trick! Think of 13. Double it, add 10, halve it, then take away 13. What number do you get?
- 40.106? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
Answer key
- Wednesday
- 496
- 46000
- 36
- 13
- 29
- 111111
- 28
- 200
- 36
- 297
- 12321
- 1000
- 2
- 144
- 192
- 8
- 8530
- 1
- 7
- 3
- 13
- 4095
- 32
- 1089
- 9
- Wednesday
- 2278
- 1
- 198
- 1
- 1089
- 1596
- 1089
- 693
- 17
- 5
- 8
- 5
- 2
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