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
- 1.16 × 1000 =
- 2.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 8 times table? (a) 64 (b) 16 (c) 40 (d) 74
- 3.2?10 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 4.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 14 7 | 8 ? 12 | 13 6 11. What is the missing number?
- 5.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 2 9 ? | 7 5 3 | 6 1 8. What is the missing number?
- 6.27 × 4 =
- 7.A father is 37 years old and his son is 8. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 8.A father is 30 years old and his son is 9. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 9.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 12 11 | 14 10 ? | 9 8 13. What is the missing number?
- 10.32?6 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 11.2 × 9 =
- 12.A piggy bank has 7 coins of ₹5 and 11 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 13.Magic trick! Think of 5. Double it, add 8, halve it, then take away 5. What number do you get?
- 14.The ages of two twins add up to 28. How old is each twin?
- 15.34 × 4 =
- 16.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 17.11111 × 11111 =
- 18.55 × 4 =
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 15 ? | 17 13 9 | 12 11 16. What is the missing number?
- 20.I thought of a number, added 4 and then doubled it. I got 34. What was my number?
- 21.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 ? 24 | 33 21 9 | 18 15 30. What is the missing number?
- 22.Do the 1089 trick with 280: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 23.10 × 4 =
- 24.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 25 11 21 | ? 19 23 | 17 27 13. What is the missing number?
- 25.28 × 4 =
- 26.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 68 =
- 27.90 × 100 =
- 28.Double 63 =
- 29.3 × 9 =
- 30.723 × 10 =
- 31.Half of 172 =
- 32.5 × 9 =
- 33.692 × 10 =
- 34.75 × ? = 7500
- 35.9 × 3 =
- 36.A girl is 9 years old and her brother is 6 years older. How old will her brother be in 5 years?
- 37.9 × 1 =
- 38.Double 84 =
- 39.12345678 × 8 + 8 =
- 40.41 × 100 =
Answer key
- 16000
- 74
- 6
- 10
- 4
- 108
- 29
- 21
- 6
- 7
- 18
- 57
- 4
- 14
- 136
- 7
- 123454321
- 220
- 14
- 13
- 27
- 1089
- 40
- 15
- 112
- 2346
- 9000
- 126
- 27
- 7230
- 86
- 45
- 6920
- 100
- 27
- 20
- 9
- 168
- 98765432
- 4100
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