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
- 1.10 × 9 =
- 2.50 × 4 =
- 3.9 × 6 =
- 4.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 75 =
- 5.If today is Saturday, what day was it 42 days ago? (a) Sunday (b) Tuesday (c) Saturday (d) Friday
- 6.What comes next? 9, 11, 13, 15, ? (a) 15 (b) 19 (c) 18 (d) 17
- 7.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 17 10 | 11 13 15 | 16 ? 14. What is the missing number?
- 8.28 × 100 =
- 9.A girl is 7 years old and her brother is 5 years older. How old will her brother be in 3 years?
- 10.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 3 13 | 7 11 15 | 9 19 5. What is the missing number?
- 11.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 12.36 × 4 =
- 13.46 × 4 =
- 14.23 × 100 =
- 15.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 16.Think of 15. Multiply it by 4, then add 6. What number do you end with?
- 17.Think of 13. Multiply it by 2, then add 4. What number do you end with?
- 18.Take 62 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 19.1234 × 8 + 4 =
- 20.631 × ? = 6310
- 21.56 × 4 =
- 22.Take 950. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 23.Magic trick! Think of 6. Double it, add 6, halve it, then take away 6. What number do you get?
- 24.Take 60 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 25.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 26.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 76 =
- 27.9 × 2 =
- 28.A girl is 11 years old and her brother is 3 years older. How old will her brother be in 5 years?
- 29.14 × 1000 =
- 30.37 × 9 =
- 31.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 9 =
- 32.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 33.I thought of a number, added 1 and then doubled it. I got 38. What was my number?
- 34.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 4 18 8 | 14 10 6 | ? 2 16. What is the missing number?
- 35.123 × 9 + 4 =
- 36.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 73 =
- 37.Do the 1089 trick with 156: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 38.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 39.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 47 =
- 40.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 13 =
Answer key
- 90
- 200
- 54
- 2850
- Saturday
- 17
- 9
- 2800
- 15
- 17
- 495
- 144
- 184
- 2300
- 5
- 66
- 30
- 54
- 9876
- 10
- 224
- 891
- 3
- 54
- 4
- 2926
- 18
- 19
- 14000
- 333
- 45
- 1
- 18
- 12
- 1111
- 2701
- 1089
- 2
- 576
- 49
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