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
- 1.2 × 9 =
- 2.In 2 years a boy will be 13 years old. How old was he 4 years ago?
- 3.Do the 1089 trick with 690: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 4.18 × 4 =
- 5.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 6.19? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 7.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 8.Take 479. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 9.A piggy bank has 11 coins of ₹5 and 15 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 10.11 × 11 =
- 11.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 14 (b) 17 (c) 12 (d) 16
- 12.I thought of a number, added 6 and then doubled it. I got 20. What was my number?
- 13.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 19 5 | 7 11 15 | 17 3 ?. What is the missing number?
- 14.37 × 3 =
- 15.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 19 9 | 7 15 ? | 21 11 13. What is the missing number?
- 16.You have 15 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹18. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 17.9 × 3 =
- 18.Double 84 =
- 19.25 × 4 =
- 20.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 28 7 22 | 13 19 25 | 16 ? 10. What is the missing number?
- 21.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 22.958 × 10 =
- 23.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 24.23 × 4 =
- 25.Take 75 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 26.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 59 =
- 27.9 × 9 =
- 28.1 × 9 =
- 29.40 × 4 =
- 30.The ages of two twins add up to 20. How old is each twin?
- 31.If today is Monday, what day was it 30 days ago? (a) Tuesday (b) Friday (c) Sunday (d) Saturday
- 32.30 × 4 =
- 33.A father is 33 years old and his son is 14. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 34.Double 75 =
- 35.50 × 4 =
- 36.Take 14 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 37.344 × ? = 3440
- 38.?354 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 39.6?58 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 40.If today is Saturday, what day was it 16 days ago? (a) Wednesday (b) Thursday (c) Sunday (d) Friday
Answer key
- 18
- 7
- 1089
- 72
- 1
- 8
- 8
- 495
- 85
- 121
- 16
- 4
- 13
- 111
- 23
- 3
- 27
- 168
- 100
- 31
- 693
- 9580
- 5
- 92
- 63
- 1770
- 81
- 9
- 160
- 10
- Saturday
- 120
- 19
- 150
- 200
- 9
- 10
- 6
- 8
- Thursday
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