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.A girl is 8 years old and her brother is 2 years older. How old will her brother be in 6 years?
- 2.What comes next? 3, 12, 21, 30, ? (a) 39 (b) 30 (c) 48 (d) 40
- 3.?508 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 4.Take 18 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 5.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 4 times table? (a) 20 (b) 9 (c) 8 (d) 12
- 6.A father is 45 years old and his son is 11. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 7.If today is Monday, what day was it 32 days ago? (a) Sunday (b) Thursday (c) Wednesday (d) Friday
- 8.What comes next? 36, 49, 64, 81, ? (a) 98 (b) 101 (c) 100 (d) 102
- 9.Take 33 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 10.350 × ? = 3500
- 11.55 × 100 =
- 12.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 2. I got 34. What was my number?
- 13.What comes next? 16, 25, 36, 49, ? (a) 64 (b) 65 (c) 66 (d) 62
- 14.998 × 10 =
- 15.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 16.12345679 × 27 =
- 17.9 × 7 =
- 18.60 × 100 =
- 19.If today is Wednesday, what day will it be after 25 days? (a) Saturday (b) Monday (c) Wednesday (d) Sunday
- 20.397? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 21.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 22.54 × 4 =
- 23.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 24.Double 46 =
- 25.Double 43 =
- 26.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 24 (b) 28 (c) 32 (d) 33
- 27.?871 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 28.Do the 1089 trick with 760: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 29.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 11 =
- 30.9 × 9 =
- 31.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 14 =
- 32.565 × 10 =
- 33.If today is Monday, what day was it 55 days ago? (a) Tuesday (b) Wednesday (c) Monday (d) Friday
- 34.3 × 9 =
- 35.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 36.123456789 × 8 + 9 =
- 37.4 × 9 =
- 38.Double 42 =
- 39.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 25 15 | 21 ? 13 | 19 9 23. What is the missing number?
- 40.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 80 =
Answer key
- 16
- 39
- 5
- 9
- 9
- 34
- Thursday
- 100
- 27
- 10
- 5500
- 8
- 64
- 9980
- 693
- 333333333
- 63
- 6000
- Sunday
- 8
- 594
- 216
- 9
- 92
- 86
- 32
- 2
- 1089
- 36
- 81
- 105
- 5650
- Tuesday
- 27
- 3
- 987654321
- 36
- 84
- 17
- 3240
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