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.I thought of a number, added 7 and then doubled it. I got 50. What was my number?
- 2.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 3.31 × 4 =
- 4.20 × 4 =
- 5.9 × 4 =
- 6.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 10 15 | 16 12 8 | 9 14 13. What is the missing number?
- 7.What comes next? 3, 6, 12, 24, ? (a) 36 (b) 42 (c) 49 (d) 48
- 8.11 × 11 =
- 9.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 12 22 | 24 16 8 | ? 20 18. What is the missing number?
- 10.12345679 × 72 =
- 11.123 × 9 + 4 =
- 12.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 37 =
- 13.Take 21 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 14.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 15.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 16.198 + 891 =
- 17.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 7. I got 25. What was my number?
- 18.21 × 1000 =
- 19.In 4 years a boy will be 16 years old. How old was he 3 years ago?
- 20.22 × 100 =
- 21.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 2. I got 26. What was my number?
- 22.Take 64 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 23.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 8. I got 20. What was my number?
- 24.825 × ? = 8250
- 25.133 × ? = 1330
- 26.The ages of two twins add up to 20. How old is each twin?
- 27.A girl is 11 years old and her brother is 6 years older. How old will her brother be in 9 years?
- 28.?481 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 29.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 30.134 × ? = 1340
- 31.Half of 52 =
- 32.In 2 years a boy will be 11 years old. How old was he 4 years ago?
- 33.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 21 7 | 9 13 17 | 19 ? 15. What is the missing number?
- 34.9 × 8 =
- 35.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 36.11 × ? = 11000
- 37.1234 × 9 + 5 =
- 38.Do the 1089 trick with 673: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 39.Half of 112 =
- 40.46 × 4 =
Answer key
- 18
- 792
- 124
- 80
- 36
- 11
- 48
- 121
- 10
- 888888888
- 1111
- 703
- 18
- 2
- 3
- 1089
- 9
- 21000
- 9
- 2200
- 12
- 54
- 6
- 10
- 10
- 10
- 26
- 5
- 6
- 10
- 26
- 5
- 5
- 72
- 4
- 1000
- 11111
- 1089
- 56
- 184
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