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.In 3 years a boy will be 15 years old. How old was he 5 years ago?
- 2.9 × 1 =
- 3.56 × 100 =
- 4.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 24 (b) 33 (c) 28 (d) 32
- 5.The ages of two twins add up to 16. How old is each twin?
- 6.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 8 times table? (a) 56 (b) 32 (c) 40 (d) 77
- 7.51 × 4 =
- 8.41 × 4 =
- 9.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 7 times table? (a) 42 (b) 14 (c) 21 (d) 68
- 10.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 11.Think of 3. Multiply it by 2, then add 1. What number do you end with?
- 12.19 × 4 =
- 13.You have 6 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹9. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 14.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 6 11 | 12 8 4 | ? 10 9. What is the missing number?
- 15.4 × 9 =
- 16.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 17.9 × 4 =
- 18.Magic trick! Think of 9. Double it, add 14, halve it, then take away 9. What number do you get?
- 19.111111 × 111111 =
- 20.The 4th of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 18th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Tuesday (c) Thursday (d) Wednesday
- 21.59 × 10 =
- 22.37 × 12 =
- 23.Think of 2. Multiply it by 3, then add 2. What number do you end with?
- 24.30 × 100 =
- 25.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 3 times table? (a) 9 (b) 21 (c) 7 (d) 18
- 26.The ages of two twins add up to 14. How old is each twin?
- 27.7 × 4 =
- 28.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 3 times table? (a) 9 (b) 11 (c) 12 (d) 18
- 29.If today is Saturday, what day was it 59 days ago? (a) Thursday (b) Wednesday (c) Saturday (d) Tuesday
- 30.If today is Tuesday, what day was it 21 days ago? (a) Wednesday (b) Friday (c) Tuesday (d) Monday
- 31.I thought of a number, added 5 and then doubled it. I got 42. What was my number?
- 32.113 × 10 =
- 33.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 34.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 12 7 | ? 10 14 | 13 8 9. What is the missing number?
- 35.Do the 1089 trick with 980: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 36.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 37.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 ? 11 | 8 12 16 | 13 14 9. What is the missing number?
- 38.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 91 =
- 39.1234 × 9 + 5 =
- 40.Think of 11. Multiply it by 4, then add 9. What number do you end with?
Answer key
- 7
- 9
- 5600
- 32
- 8
- 77
- 204
- 164
- 68
- 3
- 7
- 76
- 3
- 5
- 36
- 693
- 36
- 7
- 12345654321
- Wednesday
- 590
- 444
- 8
- 3000
- 7
- 7
- 28
- 11
- Wednesday
- Tuesday
- 16
- 1130
- 396
- 6
- 1089
- 2
- 10
- 4186
- 11111
- 53
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