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.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 36 21 | 30 24 18 | 27 ? 33. What is the missing number?
- 2.Take 821. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 3.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 13 days? (a) Wednesday (b) Monday (c) Sunday (d) Saturday
- 4.30 × ? = 30000
- 5.44?1 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 6.What comes next? 11, 15, 19, 23, ? (a) 23 (b) 28 (c) 27 (d) 31
- 7.Magic trick! Think of 8. Double it, add 14, halve it, then take away 8. What number do you get?
- 8.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 9.35?9 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 10.Magic trick! Think of 12. Double it, add 18, halve it, then take away 12. What number do you get?
- 11.Half of 36 =
- 12.Take 52 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 13.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 43 =
- 14.I thought of a number, added 3 and then doubled it. I got 14. What was my number?
- 15.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 20 10 24 | 22 18 ? | 12 26 16. What is the missing number?
- 16.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 3. I got 58. What was my number?
- 17.12345679 × 63 =
- 18.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 29 =
- 19.Half of 58 =
- 20.Double 61 =
- 21.A girl is 5 years old and her brother is 6 years older. How old will her brother be in 4 years?
- 22.54 × 4 =
- 23.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 1. I got 43. What was my number?
- 24.111111 × 111111 =
- 25.Half of 52 =
- 26.Take 197. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 27.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 5 10 | 7 9 11 | ? 13 6. What is the missing number?
- 28.If today is Friday, what day was it 49 days ago? (a) Monday (b) Thursday (c) Saturday (d) Friday
- 29.What comes next? 11, 18, 25, 32, ? (a) 39 (b) 46 (c) 32 (d) 40
- 30.10 × 9 =
- 31.68 × ? = 680
- 32.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 39 days? (a) Thursday (b) Friday (c) Saturday (d) Monday
- 33.If today is Wednesday, what day will it be after 80 days? (a) Friday (b) Tuesday (c) Saturday (d) Sunday
- 34.Think of 5. Multiply it by 4, then add 9. What number do you end with?
- 35.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 ? 12 | 18 14 10 | 16 6 20. What is the missing number?
- 36.If today is Sunday, what day was it 22 days ago? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Tuesday (d) Saturday
- 37.9 × 3 =
- 38.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 98 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Friday (c) Saturday (d) Sunday
- 39.51 × 4 =
- 40.25 × 1000 =
Answer key
- 12
- 693
- Sunday
- 1000
- 9
- 27
- 7
- 5
- 1
- 9
- 18
- 45
- 484
- 4
- 14
- 11
- 777777777
- 225
- 29
- 122
- 15
- 216
- 14
- 12345654321
- 26
- 594
- 8
- Friday
- 39
- 90
- 10
- Friday
- Saturday
- 29
- 22
- Saturday
- 27
- Saturday
- 204
- 25000
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