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.What comes next? 17, 25, 33, 41, ? (a) 50 (b) 49 (c) 41 (d) 57
- 2.671? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 3.The 6th of a month is a Sunday. What day is the 28th of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Sunday (c) Monday (d) Thursday
- 4.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 11 =
- 5.252 × 10 =
- 6.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 31 ? 19 | 10 22 34 | 25 28 13. What is the missing number?
- 7.What comes next? 13, 21, 29, 37, ? (a) 37 (b) 53 (c) 45 (d) 46
- 8.14 × 4 =
- 9.Half of 178 =
- 10.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 60 (b) 70 (c) 81 (d) 80
- 11.46 × 4 =
- 12.Magic trick! Think of 6. Double it, add 12, halve it, then take away 6. What number do you get?
- 13.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 14.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 34 =
- 15.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 16.?03 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 17.896? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 18.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 25 22 | ? 19 7 | 16 13 28. What is the missing number?
- 19.5?47 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 20.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 81 =
- 21.Magic trick! Think of 20. Double it, add 18, halve it, then take away 20. What number do you get?
- 22.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 23 13 | 19 15 11 | 17 7 21. What is the missing number?
- 23.1234 × 8 + 4 =
- 24.What comes next? 16, 25, 36, 49, ? (a) 66 (b) 65 (c) 64 (d) 62
- 25.Take 974. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 26.The 5th of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 25th of the same month? (a) Monday (b) Tuesday (c) Friday (d) Wednesday
- 27.Do the 1089 trick with 980: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 28.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 17 =
- 29.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 30.52 × 4 =
- 31.20 × 4 =
- 32.8 × 9 =
- 33.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 34.40 × 4 =
- 35.You have 11 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹19. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 36.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 37.If today is Monday, what day was it 31 days ago? (a) Saturday (b) Monday (c) Friday (d) Thursday
- 38.411 × 10 =
- 39.Take 33 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 40.48 × 4 =
Answer key
- 49
- 4
- Monday
- 36
- 2520
- 16
- 45
- 56
- 89
- 80
- 184
- 6
- 8
- 595
- 4
- 6
- 4
- 31
- 2
- 3321
- 9
- 9
- 9876
- 64
- 495
- Tuesday
- 1089
- 81
- 594
- 208
- 80
- 72
- 7
- 160
- 8
- 495
- Friday
- 4110
- 27
- 192
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