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.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 3 8 | 9 5 1 | 2 7 6. What is the missing number?
- 2.What comes next? 11, 17, 23, 29, ? (a) 41 (b) 29 (c) 35 (d) 36
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 27 13 | ? 19 23 | 25 11 21. What is the missing number?
- 4.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 5.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 1. I got 61. What was my number?
- 6.Take 38 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 7.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 8.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 9.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 10.I thought of a number, added 3 and then doubled it. I got 28. What was my number?
- 11.Take 98 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 12.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 95 =
- 13.17 × 1000 =
- 14.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 53 =
- 15.54?5 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 16.111 × 111 =
- 17.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 9 10 | 7 11 15 | 12 13 ?. What is the missing number?
- 18.37 × 3 =
- 19.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 20.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 21 =
- 21.Double 29 =
- 22.33 × ? = 33000
- 23.A father is 30 years old and his son is 10. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 24.3?80 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 25.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 18 ? 12 | 15 21 27 | 30 9 24. What is the missing number?
- 26.Think of 10. Multiply it by 2, then add 3. What number do you end with?
- 27.396 + 693 =
- 28.I thought of a number, added 2 and then doubled it. I got 26. What was my number?
- 29.In 2 years a boy will be 10 years old. How old was he 7 years ago?
- 30.Take 65 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 31.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 22 7 28 | 25 19 13 | 10 31 ?. What is the missing number?
- 32.A piggy bank has 12 coins of ₹5 and 3 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 33.37 × 9 =
- 34.45 × 4 =
- 35.33 × 4 =
- 36.9 × 4 =
- 37.Take 805. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 38.44 × 4 =
- 39.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 40.7 × 4 =
Answer key
- 4
- 35
- 15
- 2
- 12
- 27
- 0
- 8
- 594
- 11
- 81
- 4560
- 17000
- 1431
- 4
- 12321
- 8
- 111
- 3
- 121
- 58
- 1000
- 20
- 7
- 33
- 23
- 1089
- 11
- 1
- 54
- 16
- 66
- 333
- 180
- 132
- 36
- 297
- 176
- 4
- 28
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