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? 9, 14, 19, 24, ? (a) 24 (b) 34 (c) 29 (d) 30
- 2.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 3.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 4.12345678 × 9 + 9 =
- 5.12 × 8 + 2 =
- 6.2 × 9 =
- 7.6?1 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 8.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 26 16 | 22 18 14 | 20 10 24. What is the missing number?
- 9.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 9. I got 30. What was my number?
- 10.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 42 =
- 11.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 70 (b) 60 (c) 80 (d) 81
- 12.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 15 =
- 13.44?6 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 14.243 × 10 =
- 15.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 8 times table? (a) 40 (b) 49 (c) 48 (d) 24
- 16.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 17.123 × 8 + 3 =
- 18.63 × 100 =
- 19.Take 872. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 20.What comes next? 25, 36, 49, 64, ? (a) 82 (b) 83 (c) 81 (d) 79
- 21.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 56 =
- 22.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 4 times table? (a) 8 (b) 16 (c) 28 (d) 21
- 23.26 × 4 =
- 24.Double 17 =
- 25.The ages of two twins add up to 16. How old is each twin?
- 26.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 27.You have 14 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹17. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 28.Half of 192 =
- 29.A girl is 11 years old and her brother is 6 years older. How old will her brother be in 4 years?
- 30.Double 93 =
- 31.The 8th of a month is a Sunday. What day is the 25th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Wednesday (c) Thursday (d) Tuesday
- 32.A girl is 7 years old and her brother is 2 years older. How old will her brother be in 2 years?
- 33.Take 22 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 34.Half of 42 =
- 35.9 × 1 =
- 36.11111 × 11111 =
- 37.11 × 4 =
- 38.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 26 16 | 22 18 14 | ? 10 24. What is the missing number?
- 39.40 × ? = 40000
- 40.17 × 4 =
Answer key
- 29
- 8
- 5
- 111111111
- 98
- 18
- 2
- 12
- 7
- 903
- 80
- 64
- 4
- 2430
- 49
- 3
- 987
- 6300
- 594
- 81
- 1596
- 21
- 104
- 34
- 8
- 297
- 3
- 96
- 21
- 186
- Wednesday
- 11
- 18
- 21
- 9
- 123454321
- 44
- 20
- 1000
- 68
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