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
- 1.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 9 =
- 2.956 × 10 =
- 3.Double 35 =
- 4.Take 68 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 5.6 × 9 =
- 6.The ages of two twins add up to 30. How old is each twin?
- 7.Take 50 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 8.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 23 9 19 | 13 17 21 | 15 25 ?. What is the missing number?
- 9.What comes next? 36, 49, 64, 81, ? (a) 102 (b) 98 (c) 101 (d) 100
- 10.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 32 17 | ? 20 14 | 23 8 29. What is the missing number?
- 11.704? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 12.?707 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 13.Think of 5. Multiply it by 2, then add 9. What number do you end with?
- 14.In 6 years a boy will be 18 years old. How old was he 2 years ago?
- 15.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 30 =
- 16.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 14 (b) 17 (c) 12 (d) 16
- 17.12345679 × 54 =
- 18.8 × 1000 =
- 19.A girl is 11 years old and her brother is 2 years older. How old will her brother be in 6 years?
- 20.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 21.37 × 27 =
- 22.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 5 19 9 | ? 11 7 | 13 3 17. What is the missing number?
- 23.594 + 495 =
- 24.13 × 4 =
- 25.Take 588. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 26.1 × 9 =
- 27.Double 93 =
- 28.12 × 9 + 3 =
- 29.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 15 =
- 30.747 × ? = 7470
- 31.?208 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 32.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 6 times table? (a) 55 (b) 42 (c) 18 (d) 36
- 33.Take 704. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 34.891 + 198 =
- 35.4 × 9 =
- 36.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 53 =
- 37.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 6 ? 8 | 7 5 3 | 2 9 4. What is the missing number?
- 38.Double 79 =
- 39.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 40.9 × 6 =
Answer key
- 45
- 9560
- 70
- 54
- 54
- 15
- 45
- 11
- 100
- 26
- 7
- 4
- 19
- 10
- 465
- 16
- 666666666
- 8000
- 19
- 5
- 999
- 15
- 1089
- 52
- 297
- 9
- 186
- 111
- 120
- 10
- 8
- 55
- 297
- 1089
- 36
- 1431
- 1
- 158
- 9
- 54
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