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.What comes next? 17, 19, 21, 23, ? (a) 26 (b) 23 (c) 25 (d) 27
- 2.11 × 11 =
- 3.?505 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 4.8 × 9 =
- 5.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 11 16 | 17 13 9 | ? 15 14. What is the missing number?
- 6.A piggy bank has 2 coins of ₹5 and 14 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 7.80 × 100 =
- 8.10 × 9 =
- 9.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 10.Magic trick! Think of 17. Double it, add 14, halve it, then take away 17. What number do you get?
- 11.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 12.Take 31 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 13.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 14.8 × ? = 8000
- 15.Magic trick! Think of 8. Double it, add 14, halve it, then take away 8. What number do you get?
- 16.A girl is 12 years old and her brother is 2 years older. How old will her brother be in 3 years?
- 17.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 26 29 ? | 11 23 35 | 32 17 20. What is the missing number?
- 18.9 × 7 =
- 19.Double 31 =
- 20.A piggy bank has 8 coins of ₹5 and 9 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 21.Take 860. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 22.Do the 1089 trick with 900: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 23.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 3. I got 15. What was my number?
- 24.13 × ? = 13000
- 25.Half of 136 =
- 26.The ages of two twins add up to 30. How old is each twin?
- 27.9 × 1 =
- 28.What comes next? 2, 4, 6, 8, ? (a) 12 (b) 11 (c) 8 (d) 10
- 29.4 × 9 =
- 30.9 × 5 =
- 31.Half of 62 =
- 32.The 5th of a month is a Monday. What day is the 24th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Tuesday (c) Sunday (d) Friday
- 33.Magic trick! Think of 11. Double it, add 18, halve it, then take away 11. What number do you get?
- 34.7 × 9 =
- 35.The 5th of a month is a Monday. What day is the 29th of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Friday (c) Wednesday (d) Sunday
- 36.Half of 146 =
- 37.2?63 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 38.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 50 =
- 39.15 × ? = 1500
- 40.Magic trick! Think of 14. Double it, add 12, halve it, then take away 14. What number do you get?
Answer key
- 25
- 121
- 8
- 72
- 10
- 38
- 8000
- 90
- 693
- 7
- 7
- 27
- 297
- 1000
- 7
- 17
- 14
- 63
- 62
- 58
- 792
- 1089
- 6
- 1000
- 68
- 15
- 9
- 10
- 36
- 45
- 31
- Saturday
- 9
- 63
- Thursday
- 73
- 7
- 1275
- 100
- 6
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