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): 10 9 14 | 15 11 7 | ? 13 12. What is the missing number?
- 2.A girl is 7 years old and her brother is 5 years older. How old will her brother be in 6 years?
- 3.Take 602. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 4.I thought of a number, added 2 and then doubled it. I got 40. What was my number?
- 5.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 96 =
- 6.327 × 10 =
- 7.Double 64 =
- 8.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 35 =
- 9.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 66 =
- 10.Double 43 =
- 11.26 × 4 =
- 12.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 5. I got 14. What was my number?
- 13.Magic trick! Think of 16. Double it, add 4, halve it, then take away 16. What number do you get?
- 14.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 15.?703 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 16.The 9th of a month is a Thursday. What day is the 19th of the same month? (a) Sunday (b) Monday (c) Wednesday (d) Saturday
- 17.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 18.If today is Tuesday, what day was it 48 days ago? (a) Saturday (b) Thursday (c) Wednesday (d) Tuesday
- 19.Double 92 =
- 20.14 × 4 =
- 21.A piggy bank has 9 coins of ₹5 and 14 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 22.Magic trick! Think of 15. Double it, add 12, halve it, then take away 15. What number do you get?
- 23.9 × 8 =
- 24.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 56 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Saturday (c) Sunday (d) Friday
- 25.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 22 12 14 | 8 ? 24 | 18 20 10. What is the missing number?
- 26.Half of 22 =
- 27.396 + 693 =
- 28.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 29.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 46 =
- 30.I thought of a number, added 1 and then doubled it. I got 36. What was my number?
- 31.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 3 times table? (a) 15 (b) 19 (c) 12 (d) 9
- 32.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 1. I got 34. What was my number?
- 33.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 97 days? (a) Saturday (b) Tuesday (c) Friday (d) Sunday
- 34.4 × 9 =
- 35.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 80 (b) 70 (c) 60 (d) 81
- 36.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 13 =
- 37.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 38.54 × 4 =
- 39.Magic trick! Think of 8. Double it, add 6, halve it, then take away 8. What number do you get?
- 40.If today is Saturday, what day was it 57 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Thursday (c) Monday (d) Saturday
Answer key
- 8
- 18
- 396
- 18
- 4656
- 3270
- 128
- 324
- 2211
- 86
- 104
- 3
- 2
- 3
- 8
- Sunday
- 594
- Wednesday
- 184
- 56
- 73
- 6
- 72
- Saturday
- 16
- 11
- 1089
- 1
- 1081
- 17
- 19
- 11
- Saturday
- 36
- 80
- 49
- 2
- 216
- 3
- Friday
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