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.What comes next? 25, 36, 49, 64, ? (a) 83 (b) 81 (c) 79 (d) 82
- 2.Half of 84 =
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 22 12 14 | 8 ? 24 | 18 20 10. What is the missing number?
- 4.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 20 35 14 | 17 23 29 | 32 11 ?. What is the missing number?
- 5.Half of 176 =
- 6.Half of 142 =
- 7.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 8.The 2nd of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 30th of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Tuesday (c) Saturday (d) Wednesday
- 9.Double 69 =
- 10.I thought of a number, added 6 and then doubled it. I got 18. What was my number?
- 11.9 × 6 =
- 12.If today is Saturday, what day was it 38 days ago? (a) Tuesday (b) Wednesday (c) Saturday (d) Thursday
- 13.66 × ? = 660
- 14.9 × 3 =
- 15.What comes next? 4, 8, 16, 32, ? (a) 48 (b) 65 (c) 64 (d) 56
- 16.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 17.Double 37 =
- 18.123 × 8 + 3 =
- 19.1 × 9 =
- 20.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 13 23 | 25 17 ? | 11 21 19. What is the missing number?
- 21.292 × 10 =
- 22.12345678 × 9 + 9 =
- 23.7 × 9 =
- 24.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 37 =
- 25.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 10 =
- 26.What comes next? 17, 25, 33, 41, ? (a) 49 (b) 41 (c) 50 (d) 57
- 27.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 ? 20 | 26 18 10 | 16 14 24. What is the missing number?
- 28.Take 11 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 29.Magic trick! Think of 18. Double it, add 10, halve it, then take away 18. What number do you get?
- 30.Double 93 =
- 31.15 × 1000 =
- 32.Think of 3. Multiply it by 2, then add 7. What number do you end with?
- 33.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 82 days? (a) Sunday (b) Wednesday (c) Friday (d) Thursday
- 34.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 16 ? | 10 12 14 | 15 8 13. What is the missing number?
- 35.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 36.7?10 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 37.Magic trick! Think of 11. Double it, add 14, halve it, then take away 11. What number do you get?
- 38.40 × 10 =
- 39.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 79 =
- 40.What comes next? 14, 16, 18, 20, ? (a) 24 (b) 20 (c) 22 (d) 23
Answer key
- 81
- 42
- 16
- 26
- 88
- 71
- 6
- Wednesday
- 138
- 3
- 54
- Wednesday
- 10
- 27
- 64
- 4
- 74
- 987
- 9
- 9
- 2920
- 111111111
- 63
- 361
- 55
- 49
- 22
- 9
- 5
- 186
- 15000
- 13
- Thursday
- 9
- 693
- 1
- 7
- 400
- 3160
- 22
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