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 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 2.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 14 (b) 16 (c) 17 (d) 12
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 20 23 8 | 5 ? 29 | 26 11 14. What is the missing number?
- 4.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 8. I got 41. What was my number?
- 5.Half of 94 =
- 6.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 20 23 8 | 5 17 ? | 26 11 14. What is the missing number?
- 7.38?2 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 8.Half of 152 =
- 9.21 × 1000 =
- 10.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 19 ? 25 | 22 16 10 | 7 28 13. What is the missing number?
- 11.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 47 =
- 12.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 27 ? 33 | 30 24 18 | 15 36 21. What is the missing number?
- 13.1234 × 8 + 4 =
- 14.25 × 4 =
- 15.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 16.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 81 (b) 70 (c) 80 (d) 60
- 17.Double 35 =
- 18.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 87 =
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 18 4 | 6 10 ? | 16 2 12. What is the missing number?
- 20.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 8. I got 17. What was my number?
- 21.What comes next? 36, 49, 64, 81, ? (a) 101 (b) 100 (c) 102 (d) 98
- 22.36 × 4 =
- 23.111111 × 111111 =
- 24.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 56 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Friday (c) Sunday (d) Saturday
- 25.24?7 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 26.9 × 8 =
- 27.9 × 1 =
- 28.24?9 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 29.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 6 ? | 8 10 12 | 9 14 7. What is the missing number?
- 30.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 31.53 × 100 =
- 32.?044 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 33.Half of 62 =
- 34.564 × 10 =
- 35.Take 931. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 36.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 10 12 | 6 14 22 | 16 18 8. What is the missing number?
- 37.Take 618. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 38.Take 63 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 39.7 × 9 =
- 40.Take 80 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
Answer key
- 6
- 16
- 17
- 11
- 47
- 29
- 5
- 76
- 21000
- 4
- 576
- 12
- 9876
- 100
- 495
- 80
- 70
- 3828
- 14
- 3
- 100
- 144
- 12345654321
- Saturday
- 5
- 72
- 9
- 3
- 11
- 3
- 5300
- 1
- 31
- 5640
- 792
- 20
- 198
- 54
- 63
- 72
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