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 + … + 69 =
- 2.In 3 years a boy will be 12 years old. How old was he 6 years ago?
- 3.Do the 1089 trick with 860: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 4.1 × 9 =
- 5.12345 × 8 + 5 =
- 6.If today is Wednesday, what day will it be after 81 days? (a) Sunday (b) Saturday (c) Wednesday (d) Monday
- 7.Do the 1089 trick with 371: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 8.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 9.Take 168. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 10.A father is 32 years old and his son is 12. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 11.84 × ? = 8400
- 12.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 13.If today is Wednesday, what day will it be after 21 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Saturday (c) Wednesday (d) Thursday
- 14.870 × ? = 8700
- 15.8 × 4 =
- 16.64?8 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 17.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 12 ? | 24 16 8 | 10 20 18. What is the missing number?
- 18.Think of 9. Multiply it by 4, then add 7. What number do you end with?
- 19.37 × 24 =
- 20.Half of 142 =
- 21.Do the 1089 trick with 912: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 22.Double 92 =
- 23.37 × 15 =
- 24.6 × 4 =
- 25.A piggy bank has 8 coins of ₹5 and 5 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 26.In 2 years a boy will be 10 years old. How old was he 4 years ago?
- 27.A girl is 8 years old and her brother is 3 years older. How old will her brother be in 2 years?
- 28.I thought of a number, added 9 and then doubled it. I got 50. What was my number?
- 29.33 × 4 =
- 30.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 16 (b) 12 (c) 17 (d) 14
- 31.717? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 32.Half of 126 =
- 33.5 × 9 =
- 34.12345679 × 36 =
- 35.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 81 (b) 70 (c) 60 (d) 80
- 36.A father is 43 years old and his son is 7. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 37.7 × 4 =
- 38.Take 482. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.What comes next? 15, 18, 21, 24, ? (a) 30 (b) 24 (c) 28 (d) 27
- 40.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 29 ? 23 | 14 20 26 | 17 32 11. What is the missing number?
Answer key
- 2415
- 3
- 1089
- 9
- 98765
- Sunday
- 1089
- 297
- 693
- 20
- 100
- 8
- Wednesday
- 10
- 32
- 9
- 22
- 43
- 888
- 71
- 1089
- 184
- 555
- 24
- 50
- 4
- 13
- 16
- 132
- 16
- 3
- 63
- 45
- 444444444
- 80
- 36
- 28
- 198
- 27
- 8
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