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.If today is Thursday, what day was it 34 days ago? (a) Thursday (b) Saturday (c) Friday (d) Monday
- 2.Take 55 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 3.32?4 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 4.55 × 100 =
- 5.A father is 30 years old and his son is 11. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 6.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 34 =
- 7.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 13 =
- 8.Do the 1089 trick with 866: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 9.Half of 88 =
- 10.123456 × 8 + 6 =
- 11.Take 143. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 12.11 × 4 =
- 13.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 14.?04 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 15.You have 8 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹12. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 16.The 2nd of a month is a Friday. What day is the 14th of the same month? (a) Wednesday (b) Saturday (c) Thursday (d) Tuesday
- 17.2 × 9 =
- 18.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 2 9 | 8 ? 4 | 3 10 5. What is the missing number?
- 19.Double 53 =
- 20.9 × 6 =
- 21.20 × 4 =
- 22.A father is 41 years old and his son is 9. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 23.A father is 41 years old and his son is 12. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 24.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 25.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 30 9 | 12 18 24 | ? 6 21. What is the missing number?
- 26.You have 11 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹12. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 27.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 19 21 ? | 9 17 25 | 23 13 15. What is the missing number?
- 28.12345679 × 54 =
- 29.579? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 30.297 + 792 =
- 31.Do the 1089 trick with 860: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 32.2 × ? = 2000
- 33.What comes next? 1, 4, 9, 16, ? (a) 27 (b) 25 (c) 23 (d) 26
- 34.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 17 12 | 15 13 11 | 14 ? 16. What is the missing number?
- 35.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 9 14 | 11 13 15 | 12 17 10. What is the missing number?
- 36.If today is Tuesday, what day will it be after 67 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Sunday (c) Friday (d) Saturday
- 37.27 × 4 =
- 38.9 × 9 = 8? — what is the missing digit?
- 39.3 × 9 =
- 40.Think of 13. Multiply it by 3, then add 4. What number do you end with?
Answer key
- Friday
- 45
- 9
- 5500
- 19
- 595
- 49
- 1089
- 44
- 987654
- 198
- 44
- 7
- 5
- 4
- Wednesday
- 18
- 6
- 106
- 54
- 80
- 32
- 29
- 8
- 27
- 1
- 11
- 666666666
- 6
- 1089
- 1089
- 1000
- 25
- 9
- 16
- Saturday
- 108
- 1
- 27
- 43
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