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
- 1.11111 × 11111 =
- 2.4 × 9 =
- 3.44 × 1000 =
- 4.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 5.You have 8 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹12. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 6.Half of 76 =
- 7.36 × ? = 3600
- 8.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 6 11 | 8 10 12 | ? 14 7. What is the missing number?
- 9.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 27 12 15 | 6 ? 30 | 21 24 9. What is the missing number?
- 10.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 97 days? (a) Saturday (b) Tuesday (c) Sunday (d) Friday
- 11.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 7 times table? (a) 28 (b) 21 (c) 35 (d) 68
- 12.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 13.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 ? 9 | 8 6 4 | 3 10 5. What is the missing number?
- 14.Do the 1089 trick with 430: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 15.The 3rd of a month is a Monday. What day is the 27th of the same month? (a) Friday (b) Sunday (c) Wednesday (d) Thursday
- 16.9 × 1000 =
- 17.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 9 times table? (a) 36 (b) 45 (c) 31 (d) 27
- 18.12 × 1000 =
- 19.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 60 (b) 81 (c) 80 (d) 70
- 20.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 ? 14 | 20 16 12 | 18 8 22. What is the missing number?
- 21.10 × 1000 =
- 22.Do the 1089 trick with 961: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 23.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 28 (b) 33 (c) 32 (d) 24
- 24.Do the 1089 trick with 214: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 25.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 17 ? | 11 13 15 | 16 9 14. What is the missing number?
- 26.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 17 =
- 27.12345 × 9 + 6 =
- 28.41 × 4 =
- 29.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 30.12345679 × 81 =
- 31.Magic trick! Think of 20. Double it, add 8, halve it, then take away 20. What number do you get?
- 32.A father is 42 years old and his son is 11. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 33.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 34.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 27 =
- 35.The ages of two twins add up to 20. How old is each twin?
- 36.11 × 11 =
- 37.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 18 8 22 | 20 16 ? | 10 24 14. What is the missing number?
- 38.What comes next? 4, 6, 8, 10, ? (a) 12 (b) 10 (c) 14 (d) 13
- 39.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 100 days? (a) Friday (b) Monday (c) Wednesday (d) Tuesday
- 40.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
Answer key
- 123454321
- 36
- 44000
- 4
- 4
- 38
- 100
- 9
- 18
- Saturday
- 68
- 3
- 2
- 1089
- Thursday
- 9000
- 31
- 12000
- 80
- 24
- 10000
- 1089
- 32
- 1089
- 10
- 81
- 111111
- 164
- 396
- 999999999
- 4
- 31
- 2
- 378
- 10
- 121
- 12
- 12
- Tuesday
- 1
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