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 × 9 =
- 2.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 8. I got 12. What was my number?
- 3.9 × 8 =
- 4.9 × 3 =
- 5.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 31 =
- 6.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 4 ? 2 | 3 5 7 | 8 1 6. What is the missing number?
- 7.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 70 (b) 60 (c) 80 (d) 81
- 8.3 × 9 =
- 9.84 × ? = 8400
- 10.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 8 =
- 11.Double 83 =
- 12.Half of 32 =
- 13.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 14.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 15.Magic trick! Think of 6. Double it, add 16, halve it, then take away 6. What number do you get?
- 16.You have 15 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹17. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 17.A father is 32 years old and his son is 13. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 18.765 × 10 =
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 20 17 32 | 35 23 11 | 14 ? 26. What is the missing number?
- 20.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 29 =
- 21.A girl is 12 years old and her brother is 4 years older. How old will her brother be in 9 years?
- 22.574 × 10 =
- 23.25 × ? = 2500
- 24.The 5th of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 14th of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Monday (c) Saturday (d) Friday
- 25.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 26.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 33 (b) 24 (c) 28 (d) 32
- 27.35 × 4 =
- 28.Double 77 =
- 29.Half of 118 =
- 30.13 × 4 =
- 31.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 16 (b) 14 (c) 12 (d) 17
- 32.Double 31 =
- 33.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 34.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 35.Take 498. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 36.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 5 12 7 | 10 8 6 | ? 4 11. What is the missing number?
- 37.Take 980. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 38.What comes next? 3, 6, 12, 24, ? (a) 36 (b) 42 (c) 49 (d) 48
- 39.46 × 4 =
- 40.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
Answer key
- 36
- 2
- 72
- 27
- 256
- 9
- 80
- 27
- 100
- 36
- 166
- 16
- 3
- 0
- 8
- 2
- 19
- 7650
- 29
- 435
- 25
- 5740
- 100
- Friday
- 2
- 32
- 140
- 154
- 59
- 52
- 16
- 62
- 8
- 9
- 396
- 9
- 891
- 48
- 184
- 792
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