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 + … + 31 =
- 2.Double 89 =
- 3.111 × 111 =
- 4.?642 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 5.A father is 33 years old and his son is 4. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 6.If today is Thursday, what day will it be after 21 days? (a) Thursday (b) Friday (c) Sunday (d) Wednesday
- 7.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 40 days? (a) Monday (b) Thursday (c) Saturday (d) Friday
- 8.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 12 (b) 16 (c) 14 (d) 17
- 9.714 × 10 =
- 10.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 41 =
- 11.1234567 × 8 + 7 =
- 12.You have 11 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹19. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 13.708 × ? = 7080
- 14.Take 940. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 15.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 ? 17 | 15 11 7 | 5 19 9. What is the missing number?
- 16.Take 910. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 17.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 18.9 × 9 =
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 ? 11 | 14 20 26 | 29 8 23. What is the missing number?
- 20.1111 × 1111 =
- 21.37 × 21 =
- 22.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 23.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 43 =
- 24.15 × 4 =
- 25.If today is Friday, what day was it 49 days ago? (a) Thursday (b) Saturday (c) Friday (d) Monday
- 26.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 8. I got 41. What was my number?
- 27.19 × ? = 19000
- 28.Think of 10. Multiply it by 2, then add 6. What number do you end with?
- 29.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 30.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 8 3 | 2 6 10 | 9 4 5. What is the missing number?
- 31.What comes next? 4, 8, 16, 32, ? (a) 56 (b) 65 (c) 64 (d) 48
- 32.9 × 4 =
- 33.17 × 4 =
- 34.Do the 1089 trick with 640: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 35.54 × 4 =
- 36.Take 702. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 37.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 38.The 8th of a month is a Sunday. What day is the 30th of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Monday (c) Thursday (d) Sunday
- 39.?897 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 40.32 × 4 =
Answer key
- 496
- 178
- 12321
- 6
- 29
- Thursday
- Friday
- 16
- 7140
- 441
- 9876543
- 8
- 10
- 891
- 3
- 891
- 1
- 81
- 32
- 1234321
- 777
- 8
- 484
- 60
- Friday
- 11
- 1000
- 26
- 7
- 7
- 64
- 36
- 68
- 1089
- 216
- 495
- 7
- Monday
- 3
- 128
Free maths tricks lessons, practice and worksheets at talentjr.in/maths-tricks