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.Double 63 =
- 2.The ages of two twins add up to 16. How old is each twin?
- 3.636 × 10 =
- 4.Half of 124 =
- 5.9 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 6.13 × 1000 =
- 7.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 8.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 20 days? (a) Monday (b) Sunday (c) Wednesday (d) Saturday
- 9.9 × 8 =
- 10.610 × 10 =
- 11.12345679 × 63 =
- 12.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 13.Double 27 =
- 14.If today is Monday, what day was it 55 days ago? (a) Monday (b) Tuesday (c) Friday (d) Wednesday
- 15.12345 × 9 + 6 =
- 16.31 × 4 =
- 17.Magic trick! Think of 10. Double it, add 10, halve it, then take away 10. What number do you get?
- 18.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 19.Take 40 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 20.70?0 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 21.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 22.7 × 9 =
- 23.1111 × 1111 =
- 24.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 7 ? | 19 15 11 | 9 23 13. What is the missing number?
- 25.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 12 (b) 14 (c) 17 (d) 16
- 26.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 27.If today is Sunday, what day was it 34 days ago? (a) Thursday (b) Monday (c) Sunday (d) Tuesday
- 28.If today is Monday, what day was it 59 days ago? (a) Thursday (b) Saturday (c) Friday (d) Monday
- 29.12345679 × 81 =
- 30.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 9. I got 45. What was my number?
- 31.Half of 116 =
- 32.The 3rd of a month is a Saturday. What day is the 22nd of the same month? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Thursday (d) Wednesday
- 33.52 × 4 =
- 34.Half of 102 =
- 35.If today is Wednesday, what day will it be after 75 days? (a) Sunday (b) Monday (c) Thursday (d) Tuesday
- 36.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 18 =
- 37.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 21 =
- 38.Take 600. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 ? 22 | 24 16 8 | 10 20 18. What is the missing number?
- 40.29 × 4 =
Answer key
- 126
- 8
- 6360
- 62
- 6
- 13000
- 9
- Sunday
- 72
- 6100
- 777777777
- 495
- 54
- Tuesday
- 111111
- 124
- 5
- 1
- 36
- 2
- 4
- 63
- 1234321
- 21
- 16
- 6
- Monday
- Friday
- 999999999
- 9
- 58
- Thursday
- 208
- 51
- Monday
- 171
- 231
- 594
- 12
- 116
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