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.Take 679. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 2.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 20 35 14 | 17 ? 29 | 32 11 26. What is the missing number?
- 3.1234567 × 9 + 8 =
- 4.21 × 4 =
- 5.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 17 =
- 6.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 7.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 18 8 | 14 10 6 | 12 2 16. What is the missing number?
- 8.12345679 × 18 =
- 9.26 × 4 =
- 10.9 × 5 = 4? — what is the missing digit?
- 11.46 × 4 =
- 12.Do the 1089 trick with 630: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 13.A girl is 7 years old and her brother is 5 years older. How old will her brother be in 8 years?
- 14.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 17 =
- 15.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 16.9 × 1 =
- 17.12345679 × 36 =
- 18.Do the 1089 trick with 133: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 ? 13 | 14 10 6 | 7 12 11. What is the missing number?
- 20.If today is Friday, what day was it 57 days ago? (a) Wednesday (b) Friday (c) Sunday (d) Thursday
- 21.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 96 =
- 22.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 7 14 | 13 11 ? | 8 15 10. What is the missing number?
- 23.I thought of a number, added 6 and then doubled it. I got 36. What was my number?
- 24.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 25.What comes next? 9, 16, 25, 36, ? (a) 49 (b) 51 (c) 47 (d) 50
- 26.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 45 =
- 27.9 × 4 =
- 28.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 23 9 19 | 13 17 21 | 15 ? 11. What is the missing number?
- 29.9 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 30.Take 950. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 31.6 × 9 =
- 32.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 6 11 | 12 8 4 | 5 ? 9. What is the missing number?
- 33.Double 26 =
- 34.Half of 192 =
- 35.The 4th of a month is a Tuesday. What day is the 18th of the same month? (a) Monday (b) Wednesday (c) Friday (d) Tuesday
- 36.9 × 3 =
- 37.Do the 1089 trick with 481: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 38.1 × 9 =
- 39.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 15 =
- 40.What comes next? 1, 4, 9, 16, ? (a) 27 (b) 23 (c) 26 (d) 25
Answer key
- 297
- 23
- 11111111
- 84
- 81
- 0
- 4
- 222222222
- 104
- 5
- 184
- 1089
- 20
- 153
- 6
- 9
- 444444444
- 1089
- 8
- Thursday
- 4656
- 9
- 12
- 7
- 49
- 529
- 36
- 25
- 6
- 891
- 54
- 10
- 52
- 96
- Tuesday
- 27
- 1089
- 9
- 120
- 25
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