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): 11 12 7 | 6 10 14 | 13 ? 9. What is the missing number?
- 2.9 × 8 =
- 3.I thought of a number, added 5 and then doubled it. I got 34. What was my number?
- 4.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 5.57 × 4 =
- 6.If today is Monday, what day was it 13 days ago? (a) Monday (b) Wednesday (c) Tuesday (d) Friday
- 7.Take 46 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 8.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 9.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 12 (b) 14 (c) 16 (d) 17
- 10.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 11.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 12.I thought of a number, added 4 and then doubled it. I got 46. What was my number?
- 13.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 23 =
- 14.819 × 10 =
- 15.You have 11 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹13. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 16.The 6th of a month is a Tuesday. What day is the 25th of the same month? (a) Wednesday (b) Monday (c) Saturday (d) Sunday
- 17.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 59 =
- 18.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 19.35 × ? = 3500
- 20.9 × 4 =
- 21.The 5th of a month is a Monday. What day is the 20th of the same month? (a) Wednesday (b) Monday (c) Tuesday (d) Friday
- 22.The 8th of a month is a Thursday. What day is the 16th of the same month? (a) Monday (b) Saturday (c) Friday (d) Thursday
- 23.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 22 ? | 18 14 10 | 16 6 20. What is the missing number?
- 24.9 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 25.The ages of two twins add up to 28. How old is each twin?
- 26.Take 65 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 27.Think of 7. Multiply it by 5, then add 3. What number do you end with?
- 28.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 24 21 | 30 18 6 | 15 12 27. What is the missing number?
- 29.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 7 =
- 30.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 31.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 11 6 | 9 7 5 | 8 3 10. What is the missing number?
- 32.Do the 1089 trick with 638: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 33.Half of 42 =
- 34.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 35.Do the 1089 trick with 925: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 36.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 37.18 × 4 =
- 38.17 × 4 =
- 39.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 40.9 × 9 =
Answer key
- 8
- 72
- 12
- 1
- 228
- Tuesday
- 36
- 5
- 16
- 594
- 4
- 19
- 144
- 8190
- 2
- Sunday
- 1770
- 9
- 100
- 36
- Tuesday
- Friday
- 12
- 6
- 14
- 54
- 38
- 9
- 28
- 7
- 4
- 1089
- 21
- 792
- 1089
- 396
- 72
- 68
- 297
- 81
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