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
- 1.315 × 10 =
- 2.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 66 =
- 3.3 × 9 =
- 4.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 57 =
- 5.594 + 495 =
- 6.If today is Saturday, what day was it 45 days ago? (a) Thursday (b) Saturday (c) Wednesday (d) Tuesday
- 7.11 × 4 =
- 8.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 8. I got 40. What was my number?
- 9.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 21 11 25 | ? 19 15 | 13 27 17. What is the missing number?
- 10.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 33 (b) 28 (c) 24 (d) 32
- 11.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 15 5 | 3 11 19 | 17 7 ?. What is the missing number?
- 12.7 × 4 =
- 13.Double 87 =
- 14.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 15.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 16.A girl is 8 years old and her brother is 2 years older. How old will her brother be in 5 years?
- 17.I thought of a number, added 6 and then doubled it. I got 22. What was my number?
- 18.You have 9 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹15. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 19.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 100 =
- 20.Double 88 =
- 21.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 80 (b) 81 (c) 60 (d) 70
- 22.9 × 9 = 8? — what is the missing digit?
- 23.Half of 196 =
- 24.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 1. I got 31. What was my number?
- 25.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 14 7 | 8 10 12 | 13 6 ?. What is the missing number?
- 26.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 22 12 | 18 14 10 | 16 6 20. What is the missing number?
- 27.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 89 =
- 28.2 × 9 =
- 29.?463 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 30.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 56 =
- 31.297 + 792 =
- 32.28 × 10 =
- 33.12345679 × 81 =
- 34.A father is 41 years old and his son is 11. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 35.49 × 4 =
- 36.A father is 42 years old and his son is 4. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 37.3 × ? = 300
- 38.Take 37 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 39.Take 890. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 40.If today is Tuesday, what day was it 32 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Monday (c) Thursday (d) Saturday
Answer key
- 3150
- 2211
- 27
- 1653
- 1089
- Wednesday
- 44
- 8
- 23
- 32
- 9
- 28
- 174
- 198
- 2
- 15
- 5
- 6
- 5050
- 176
- 80
- 1
- 98
- 15
- 11
- 8
- 4005
- 18
- 5
- 1596
- 1089
- 280
- 999999999
- 30
- 196
- 38
- 100
- 27
- 792
- Friday
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