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
- 1.4 × 1000 =
- 2.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 3.9 × 9 =
- 4.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 ? 5 | 4 8 12 | 11 6 7. What is the missing number?
- 5.9 × 5 = 4? — what is the missing digit?
- 6.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 23 ? | 19 15 11 | 17 7 21. What is the missing number?
- 7.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 8. I got 33. What was my number?
- 8.40 × 4 =
- 9.Half of 172 =
- 10.The 6th of a month is a Monday. What day is the 25th of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Saturday (c) Sunday (d) Friday
- 11.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 33 =
- 12.9 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 13.Magic trick! Think of 17. Double it, add 16, halve it, then take away 17. What number do you get?
- 14.Double 41 =
- 15.7 × 100 =
- 16.Take 853. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 17.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 2. I got 10. What was my number?
- 18.1 × 9 =
- 19.584 × 10 =
- 20.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 29 =
- 21.Double 27 =
- 22.9 × 9 = 8? — what is the missing digit?
- 23.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 74 =
- 24.If today is Sunday, what day was it 12 days ago? (a) Tuesday (b) Monday (c) Friday (d) Wednesday
- 25.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 62 =
- 26.A father is 31 years old and his son is 10. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 27.19 × 4 =
- 28.?327 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 29.?21 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 30.5 × 9 =
- 31.1234567 × 9 + 8 =
- 32.Take 614. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 33.12345679 × 63 =
- 34.The 6th of a month is a Monday. What day is the 28th of the same month? (a) Friday (b) Tuesday (c) Wednesday (d) Monday
- 35.81 × 100 =
- 36.Half of 86 =
- 37.Double 17 =
- 38.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 39.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 4. I got 10. What was my number?
- 40.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 29 =
Answer key
- 4000
- 7
- 81
- 10
- 5
- 13
- 5
- 160
- 86
- Saturday
- 289
- 6
- 8
- 82
- 700
- 495
- 4
- 9
- 5840
- 225
- 54
- 1
- 2775
- Tuesday
- 1953
- 21
- 76
- 6
- 6
- 45
- 11111111
- 198
- 777777777
- Tuesday
- 8100
- 43
- 34
- 2
- 2
- 435
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