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
- 1.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 16 =
- 2.A father is 33 years old and his son is 5. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 3.11111 × 11111 =
- 4.929 × ? = 9290
- 5.788? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 6.I thought of a number, added 3 and then doubled it. I got 26. What was my number?
- 7.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 16 31 10 | 13 19 ? | 28 7 22. What is the missing number?
- 8.Double 77 =
- 9.12345679 × 54 =
- 10.A girl is 7 years old and her brother is 5 years older. How old will her brother be in 3 years?
- 11.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 33 =
- 12.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 22 8 18 | 12 16 20 | ? 24 10. What is the missing number?
- 13.In 2 years a boy will be 11 years old. How old was he 7 years ago?
- 14.9 × 9 =
- 15.Take 62 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 16.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 93 =
- 17.58?0 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 18.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 19.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 74 =
- 20.A father is 35 years old and his son is 10. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 21.Take 97 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 22.Do the 1089 trick with 107: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 23.42 × ? = 42000
- 24.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 25.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 25 =
- 26.76 × 100 =
- 27.699 × 10 =
- 28.37 × 15 =
- 29.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 7 =
- 30.28 × 1000 =
- 31.Double 98 =
- 32.36 × 4 =
- 33.3 × 1000 =
- 34.472 × ? = 4720
- 35.4 × 9 =
- 36.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 37.Take 900. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 38.A father is 36 years old and his son is 14. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 39.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 6 11 10 | 13 ? 5 | 8 7 12. What is the missing number?
- 40.19 × 4 =
Answer key
- 136
- 28
- 123454321
- 10
- 4
- 10
- 25
- 154
- 666666666
- 15
- 289
- 14
- 2
- 81
- 54
- 4371
- 5
- 396
- 2775
- 25
- 81
- 1089
- 1000
- 3
- 325
- 7600
- 6990
- 555
- 28
- 28000
- 196
- 144
- 3000
- 10
- 36
- 9
- 891
- 22
- 9
- 76
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