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
- 1.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 2.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 18 15 30 | 33 21 9 | ? 27 24. What is the missing number?
- 3.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 4.40 × 4 =
- 5.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 6.Magic trick! Think of 14. Double it, add 6, halve it, then take away 14. What number do you get?
- 7.1?57 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 8.If today is Tuesday, what day was it 36 days ago? (a) Thursday (b) Sunday (c) Monday (d) Tuesday
- 9.The 5th of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 21st of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Thursday (c) Friday (d) Monday
- 10.The 3rd of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 25th of the same month? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Thursday (d) Wednesday
- 11.15 × 4 =
- 12.37 × 27 =
- 13.47 × 1000 =
- 14.9 × 9 =
- 15.What comes next? 36, 49, 64, 81, ? (a) 98 (b) 101 (c) 100 (d) 102
- 16.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 24 27 ? | 9 21 33 | 30 15 18. What is the missing number?
- 17.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 18.23 × 10 =
- 19.Half of 122 =
- 20.634? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 21.Take 55 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 22.Double 31 =
- 23.If today is Thursday, what day will it be after 78 days? (a) Monday (b) Thursday (c) Saturday (d) Friday
- 24.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 9 times table? (a) 45 (b) 18 (c) 36 (d) 39
- 25.37 × 4 =
- 26.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 27.38?8 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 28.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 12 13 | 10 14 ? | 15 16 11. What is the missing number?
- 29.What comes next? 9, 18, 27, 36, ? (a) 46 (b) 54 (c) 36 (d) 45
- 30.Double 92 =
- 31.Take 750. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 32.95 × ? = 9500
- 33.98 × 100 =
- 34.I thought of a number, added 4 and then doubled it. I got 32. What was my number?
- 35.In 5 years a boy will be 13 years old. How old was he 3 years ago?
- 36.28 × 4 =
- 37.451 × ? = 4510
- 38.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 19 5 | 7 11 15 | 17 ? 13. What is the missing number?
- 39.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 12 (b) 16 (c) 17 (d) 14
- 40.19 × 4 =
Answer key
- 2
- 12
- 7
- 160
- 1
- 3
- 5
- Monday
- Friday
- Thursday
- 60
- 999
- 47000
- 81
- 100
- 12
- 4
- 230
- 61
- 5
- 45
- 62
- Friday
- 39
- 148
- 7
- 8
- 18
- 45
- 184
- 693
- 100
- 9800
- 12
- 5
- 112
- 10
- 3
- 16
- 76
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