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.What comes next? 14, 20, 26, 32, ? (a) 39 (b) 32 (c) 44 (d) 38
- 2.Think of 3. Multiply it by 5, then add 5. What number do you end with?
- 3.462? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 4.2 × 100 =
- 5.9 × 1 =
- 6.Half of 196 =
- 7.37 × 3 =
- 8.What comes next? 9, 16, 25, 36, ? (a) 47 (b) 50 (c) 51 (d) 49
- 9.37 × 24 =
- 10.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 6. I got 16. What was my number?
- 11.39? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 12.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 90 =
- 13.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 14.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 6 11 | ? 8 4 | 5 10 9. What is the missing number?
- 15.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 16.Half of 42 =
- 17.49 × 1000 =
- 18.92 × 100 =
- 19.What comes next? 13, 16, 19, 22, ? (a) 28 (b) 26 (c) 25 (d) 22
- 20.Take 92 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 21.11111 × 11111 =
- 22.19 × 4 =
- 23.10 × 9 =
- 24.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 ? 11 | 14 10 6 | 9 8 13. What is the missing number?
- 25.9 × 10 =
- 26.5 × 9 =
- 27.You have 9 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹11. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 28.18 × 4 =
- 29.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 8 times table? (a) 32 (b) 64 (c) 75 (d) 40
- 30.40 × ? = 40000
- 31.Do the 1089 trick with 890: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 32.Take 19 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 33.30 × 4 =
- 34.I thought of a number, added 9 and then doubled it. I got 24. What was my number?
- 35.In 5 years a boy will be 18 years old. How old was he 5 years ago?
- 36.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 18 20 10 | 8 16 24 | ? 12 14. What is the missing number?
- 37.9 × 3 =
- 38.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 39.Think of 8. Multiply it by 4, then add 2. What number do you end with?
- 40.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 30 15 18 | 9 21 33 | ? 27 12. What is the missing number?
Answer key
- 38
- 20
- 6
- 200
- 9
- 98
- 111
- 49
- 888
- 2
- 6
- 4095
- 7
- 12
- 198
- 21
- 49000
- 9200
- 25
- 81
- 123454321
- 76
- 90
- 12
- 90
- 45
- 2
- 72
- 75
- 1000
- 1089
- 9
- 120
- 3
- 8
- 22
- 27
- 3
- 34
- 24
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