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.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 2.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 10 days? (a) Monday (b) Friday (c) Wednesday (d) Tuesday
- 3.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 4.39 × 4 =
- 5.10 × 9 =
- 6.297 + 792 =
- 7.9 × 8 =
- 8.Double 26 =
- 9.123 × 9 + 4 =
- 10.Half of 98 =
- 11.25 × 4 =
- 12.The 1st of a month is a Friday. What day is the 27th of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Wednesday (c) Saturday (d) Thursday
- 13.If today is Friday, what day was it 43 days ago? (a) Wednesday (b) Friday (c) Sunday (d) Thursday
- 14.?641 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 15.9 × 9 =
- 16.A father is 44 years old and his son is 11. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 17.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 18.Take 39 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 19.Half of 154 =
- 20.Magic trick! Think of 7. Double it, add 14, halve it, then take away 7. What number do you get?
- 21.8 × 4 =
- 22.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 ? 9 | 3 11 19 | 13 15 5. What is the missing number?
- 23.What comes next? 4, 9, 16, 25, ? (a) 38 (b) 37 (c) 36 (d) 34
- 24.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 25.The 2nd of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 20th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Wednesday (c) Sunday (d) Monday
- 26.The 3rd of a month is a Saturday. What day is the 23rd of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Saturday (c) Monday (d) Friday
- 27.9 × 7 =
- 28.Do the 1089 trick with 866: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 29.Think of 13. Multiply it by 4, then add 5. What number do you end with?
- 30.2 × 1000 =
- 31.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 18 =
- 32.560? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 33.The 2nd of a month is a Friday. What day is the 15th of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Sunday (c) Friday (d) Wednesday
- 34.7 × 9 =
- 35.I thought of a number, added 4 and then doubled it. I got 18. What was my number?
- 36.28 × 4 =
- 37.396 + 693 =
- 38.23 × 4 =
- 39.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 42 days? (a) Monday (b) Thursday (c) Tuesday (d) Sunday
- 40.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 10 25 | 28 16 4 | 7 22 19. What is the missing number?
Answer key
- 198
- Tuesday
- 8
- 156
- 90
- 1089
- 72
- 52
- 1111
- 49
- 100
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- 7
- 81
- 33
- 4
- 27
- 77
- 7
- 32
- 7
- 36
- 0
- Sunday
- Friday
- 63
- 1089
- 57
- 2000
- 171
- 7
- Thursday
- 63
- 5
- 112
- 1089
- 92
- Monday
- 13
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