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
- 1.17 × 4 =
- 2.The ages of two twins add up to 12. How old is each twin?
- 3.594 + 495 =
- 4.Take 61 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 5.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 6.Double 92 =
- 7.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 21 =
- 8.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 24 10 20 | 14 18 22 | ? 26 12. What is the missing number?
- 9.9 × 9 =
- 10.If today is Saturday, what day was it 14 days ago? (a) Saturday (b) Tuesday (c) Friday (d) Sunday
- 11.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 29 =
- 12.52 × 4 =
- 13.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 35 20 | 29 23 ? | 26 11 32. What is the missing number?
- 14.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 7 times table? (a) 35 (b) 51 (c) 21 (d) 56
- 15.Take 86 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 16.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 32 (b) 24 (c) 28 (d) 33
- 17.If today is Wednesday, what day was it 14 days ago? (a) Saturday (b) Wednesday (c) Tuesday (d) Thursday
- 18.If today is Wednesday, what day was it 26 days ago? (a) Thursday (b) Monday (c) Saturday (d) Friday
- 19.1111 × 1111 =
- 20.I thought of a number, added 9 and then doubled it. I got 54. What was my number?
- 21.?485 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 22.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 10 days? (a) Wednesday (b) Sunday (c) Friday (d) Thursday
- 23.Take 341. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 24.250 × 10 =
- 25.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 26.9 × 7 =
- 27.What comes next? 6, 9, 12, 15, ? (a) 21 (b) 18 (c) 15 (d) 19
- 28.Take 70 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 29.I thought of a number, added 2 and then doubled it. I got 34. What was my number?
- 30.2 × 9 =
- 31.Take 34 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 32.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 ? 15 | 18 14 10 | 13 12 17. What is the missing number?
- 33.1 × 9 =
- 34.The ages of two twins add up to 24. How old is each twin?
- 35.A piggy bank has 8 coins of ₹5 and 9 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 36.Double 47 =
- 37.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 38.The ages of two twins add up to 10. How old is each twin?
- 39.What comes next? 3, 9, 15, 21, ? (a) 28 (b) 21 (c) 27 (d) 33
- 40.59 × ? = 5900
Answer key
- 68
- 6
- 1089
- 54
- 594
- 184
- 121
- 16
- 81
- Saturday
- 435
- 208
- 17
- 51
- 72
- 32
- Wednesday
- Friday
- 1234321
- 18
- 1
- Thursday
- 198
- 2500
- 9
- 63
- 18
- 63
- 15
- 18
- 27
- 16
- 9
- 12
- 58
- 94
- 8
- 5
- 27
- 100
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