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.
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- 1.Take 56 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 2.I thought of a number, added 4 and then doubled it. I got 20. What was my number?
- 3.6?69 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 4.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 5.Double 44 =
- 6.A girl is 5 years old and her brother is 5 years older. How old will her brother be in 4 years?
- 7.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 38 =
- 8.12345 × 9 + 6 =
- 9.If today is Saturday, what day was it 14 days ago? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Tuesday (d) Saturday
- 10.24 × 4 =
- 11.8 × 9 =
- 12.Half of 138 =
- 13.12 × 8 + 2 =
- 14.68 × 100 =
- 15.Half of 166 =
- 16.What comes next? 3, 6, 12, 24, ? (a) 42 (b) 36 (c) 49 (d) 48
- 17.If today is Sunday, what day was it 42 days ago? (a) Monday (b) Saturday (c) Wednesday (d) Sunday
- 18.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 19.What comes next? 36, 49, 64, 81, ? (a) 101 (b) 102 (c) 100 (d) 98
- 20.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 14 13 | 16 12 8 | 11 10 15. What is the missing number?
- 21.Half of 98 =
- 22.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 23.12 × ? = 12000
- 24.123 × 9 + 4 =
- 25.Magic trick! Think of 6. Double it, add 4, halve it, then take away 6. What number do you get?
- 26.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 21 36 15 | 18 24 30 | 33 12 ?. What is the missing number?
- 27.Take 58 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 28.12345679 × 9 =
- 29.9 × 10 =
- 30.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 33 12 27 | 18 24 ? | 21 36 15. What is the missing number?
- 31.9 × 2 =
- 32.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 96 =
- 33.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 34.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 35.43 × 4 =
- 36.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 37.537 × 10 =
- 38.1111 × 1111 =
- 39.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 25 11 21 | 15 19 ? | 17 27 13. What is the missing number?
- 40.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 43 =
Answer key
- 45
- 6
- 6
- 2
- 88
- 14
- 741
- 111111
- Saturday
- 96
- 72
- 69
- 98
- 6800
- 83
- 48
- Sunday
- 0
- 100
- 9
- 49
- 396
- 1000
- 1111
- 2
- 27
- 45
- 111111111
- 90
- 30
- 18
- 4656
- 693
- 4
- 172
- 792
- 5370
- 1234321
- 23
- 946
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