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.A piggy bank has 9 coins of ₹5 and 6 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 2.Double 87 =
- 3.1234567 × 9 + 8 =
- 4.What comes next? 14, 23, 32, 41, ? (a) 41 (b) 50 (c) 59 (d) 51
- 5.Magic trick! Think of 12. Double it, add 6, halve it, then take away 12. What number do you get?
- 6.If today is Friday, what day was it 17 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Monday (c) Wednesday (d) Tuesday
- 7.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 26 23 | 32 ? 8 | 17 14 29. What is the missing number?
- 8.Think of 3. Multiply it by 3, then add 1. What number do you end with?
- 9.In 2 years a boy will be 12 years old. How old was he 6 years ago?
- 10.2?94 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 11.40 × 1000 =
- 12.31 × 1000 =
- 13.9 × 9 =
- 14.9 × 10 =
- 15.Double 17 =
- 16.Double 21 =
- 17.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 5 15 13 | ? 11 3 | 9 7 17. What is the missing number?
- 18.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 5 12 | 11 9 7 | 6 13 8. What is the missing number?
- 19.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 43 =
- 20.Do the 1089 trick with 680: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 21.594 + 495 =
- 22.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 72 =
- 23.A father is 32 years old and his son is 4. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 24.Half of 24 =
- 25.I thought of a number, added 2 and then doubled it. I got 32. What was my number?
- 26.12345679 × 81 =
- 27.19 × 4 =
- 28.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 6. I got 42. What was my number?
- 29.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 30.You have 11 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹21. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 31.9 × 4 =
- 32.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 58 =
- 33.I thought of a number, added 8 and then doubled it. I got 54. What was my number?
- 34.136 × ? = 1360
- 35.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 3. I got 18. What was my number?
- 36.What comes next? 15, 21, 27, 33, ? (a) 33 (b) 40 (c) 45 (d) 39
- 37.Half of 134 =
- 38.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 1. I got 17. What was my number?
- 39.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 10 =
- 40.If today is Thursday, what day was it 21 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Thursday (c) Sunday (d) Wednesday
Answer key
- 57
- 174
- 11111111
- 50
- 3
- Tuesday
- 20
- 10
- 4
- 3
- 40000
- 31000
- 81
- 90
- 34
- 42
- 19
- 10
- 484
- 1089
- 1089
- 2628
- 28
- 12
- 14
- 999999999
- 76
- 9
- 594
- 10
- 36
- 1711
- 19
- 10
- 3
- 39
- 67
- 4
- 55
- Thursday
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