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 2 years a boy will be 16 years old. How old was he 6 years ago?
- 2.Take 81 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 3.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 4.A father is 30 years old and his son is 4. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 5.9 × 9 =
- 6.48 × 4 =
- 7.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 8.Take 28 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 9.12345679 × 45 =
- 10.Take 800. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 11.Magic trick! Think of 16. Double it, add 18, halve it, then take away 16. What number do you get?
- 12.111 × 111 =
- 13.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 14.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 15.9 × 2 =
- 16.14 × 4 =
- 17.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 67 days? (a) Thursday (b) Monday (c) Saturday (d) Friday
- 18.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 25 =
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 24 3 18 | 9 15 21 | 12 ? 6. What is the missing number?
- 20.44?9 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 21.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 12 (b) 17 (c) 16 (d) 14
- 22.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 97 =
- 23.?421 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 24.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 32 (b) 28 (c) 33 (d) 24
- 25.The 4th of a month is a Sunday. What day is the 23rd of the same month? (a) Monday (b) Friday (c) Thursday (d) Saturday
- 26.37 × 21 =
- 27.A father is 34 years old and his son is 10. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 28.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 96 days? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Wednesday (d) Thursday
- 29.12345679 × 36 =
- 30.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 79 =
- 31.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 89 =
- 32.I thought of a number, added 1 and then doubled it. I got 40. What was my number?
- 33.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 4 ? 12 | 18 10 2 | 8 6 16. What is the missing number?
- 34.Double 14 =
- 35.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 20 22 12 | ? 18 26 | 24 14 16. What is the missing number?
- 36.What comes next? 16, 25, 36, 49, ? (a) 62 (b) 66 (c) 64 (d) 65
- 37.59 × 4 =
- 38.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 4. I got 18. What was my number?
- 39.3 × 9 =
- 40.32 × 4 =
Answer key
- 8
- 72
- 4
- 26
- 81
- 192
- 9
- 18
- 555555555
- 792
- 9
- 12321
- 1
- 8
- 18
- 56
- Friday
- 169
- 27
- 1
- 16
- 4753
- 2
- 32
- Friday
- 777
- 24
- Thursday
- 444444444
- 3160
- 4005
- 19
- 14
- 28
- 10
- 64
- 236
- 7
- 27
- 128
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