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, multiplied it by 2 and added 6. I got 14. What was my number?
- 2.The 3rd of a month is a Friday. What day is the 16th of the same month? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Thursday (d) Wednesday
- 3.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 4.The 8th of a month is a Friday. What day is the 20th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Tuesday (c) Wednesday (d) Thursday
- 5.22 × 4 =
- 6.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 7.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 11 =
- 8.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 39 =
- 9.9 × 3 =
- 10.9 × 9 =
- 11.12345678 × 8 + 8 =
- 12.12 × 9 + 3 =
- 13.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 26 29 14 | 11 ? 35 | 32 17 20. What is the missing number?
- 14.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 15.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 33 12 27 | ? 24 30 | 21 36 15. What is the missing number?
- 16.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 19 =
- 17.2 × 9 =
- 18.What comes next? 16, 25, 36, 49, ? (a) 62 (b) 65 (c) 66 (d) 64
- 19.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 9 =
- 20.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 ? 11 | 8 12 16 | 13 14 9. What is the missing number?
- 21.Think of 12. Multiply it by 2, then add 6. What number do you end with?
- 22.What comes next? 19, 21, 23, 25, ? (a) 28 (b) 29 (c) 25 (d) 27
- 23.Take 56 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 24.30 × 4 =
- 25.I thought of a number, added 6 and then doubled it. I got 52. What was my number?
- 26.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 27.12345679 × 27 =
- 28.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 10 20 | 22 14 6 | 8 ? 16. What is the missing number?
- 29.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 30.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 3. I got 47. What was my number?
- 31.9 × 8 =
- 32.Double 78 =
- 33.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 47 =
- 34.Half of 192 =
- 35.Double 35 =
- 36.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 4 times table? (a) 9 (b) 28 (c) 20 (d) 12
- 37.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 38.Half of 198 =
- 39.12345 × 9 + 6 =
- 40.68 × 100 =
Answer key
- 4
- Thursday
- 5
- Wednesday
- 88
- 3
- 36
- 400
- 27
- 81
- 98765432
- 111
- 23
- 495
- 18
- 100
- 18
- 64
- 25
- 10
- 30
- 27
- 45
- 120
- 20
- 0
- 333333333
- 18
- 693
- 11
- 72
- 156
- 576
- 96
- 70
- 9
- 2
- 99
- 111111
- 6800
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