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
- 1.44 × 100 =
- 2.847 × ? = 8470
- 3.792 + 297 =
- 4.If today is Monday, what day was it 12 days ago? (a) Tuesday (b) Wednesday (c) Saturday (d) Thursday
- 5.?103 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 6.A father is 33 years old and his son is 8. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 7.12345679 × 18 =
- 8.I thought of a number, added 2 and then doubled it. I got 36. What was my number?
- 9.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 10.A piggy bank has 6 coins of ₹5 and 3 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 11.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 24 27 12 | 9 21 33 | 30 15 ?. What is the missing number?
- 12.4 × 100 =
- 13.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 14.27 × 4 =
- 15.Take 14 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 16.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 17.123456789 × 8 + 9 =
- 18.What comes next? 18, 22, 26, 30, ? (a) 30 (b) 34 (c) 35 (d) 38
- 19.Magic trick! Think of 3. Double it, add 6, halve it, then take away 3. What number do you get?
- 20.1234 × 9 + 5 =
- 21.56 × 4 =
- 22.Take 903. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 23.86 × ? = 8600
- 24.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 16 (b) 12 (c) 17 (d) 14
- 25.Double 53 =
- 26.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 25 15 ? | 11 19 27 | 21 23 13. What is the missing number?
- 27.9 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 28.A father is 31 years old and his son is 10. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 29.In 5 years a boy will be 17 years old. How old was he 2 years ago?
- 30.Double 29 =
- 31.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 6 11 | 8 ? 12 | 9 14 7. What is the missing number?
- 32.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 33.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 34.7 × 1000 =
- 35.Double 45 =
- 36.1 × 9 =
- 37.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 38.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 42 =
- 39.I thought of a number, added 7 and then doubled it. I got 22. What was my number?
- 40.What comes next? 17, 19, 21, 23, ? (a) 23 (b) 27 (c) 26 (d) 25
Answer key
- 4400
- 10
- 1089
- Wednesday
- 5
- 25
- 222222222
- 16
- 6
- 36
- 18
- 400
- 5
- 108
- 9
- 1
- 987654321
- 34
- 3
- 11111
- 224
- 594
- 100
- 16
- 106
- 17
- 6
- 21
- 10
- 58
- 10
- 4
- 693
- 7000
- 90
- 9
- 9
- 903
- 4
- 25
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