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): 16 ? 20 | 18 14 10 | 8 22 12. What is the missing number?
- 2.52 × 4 =
- 3.If today is Friday, what day will it be after 53 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Monday (c) Wednesday (d) Friday
- 4.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 5.123456789 × 8 + 9 =
- 6.25 × 4 =
- 7.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 8.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 9.28 × 4 =
- 10.Do the 1089 trick with 228: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 11.92 × ? = 9200
- 12.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 7. I got 19. What was my number?
- 13.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 30 =
- 14.?025 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 15.Take 19 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 16.Double 91 =
- 17.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 15 ? | 9 13 17 | 16 11 12. What is the missing number?
- 18.7 × 9 =
- 19.42 × 1000 =
- 20.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 5 19 9 | 15 11 7 | ? 3 17. What is the missing number?
- 21.38 × 4 =
- 22.54 × 4 =
- 23.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 12 13 | ? 14 18 | 15 16 11. What is the missing number?
- 24.Take 601. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 25.I thought of a number, added 6 and then doubled it. I got 50. What was my number?
- 26.A father is 31 years old and his son is 10. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 27.56 × 4 =
- 28.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 9 =
- 29.A girl is 6 years old and her brother is 4 years older. How old will her brother be in 2 years?
- 30.9 × 9 =
- 31.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 23 =
- 32.11 × 4 =
- 33.What comes next? 15, 20, 25, 30, ? (a) 30 (b) 36 (c) 35 (d) 40
- 34.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 35.3 × 9 =
- 36.What comes next? 8, 12, 16, 20, ? (a) 25 (b) 24 (c) 20 (d) 28
- 37.What comes next? 9, 16, 25, 36, ? (a) 51 (b) 50 (c) 49 (d) 47
- 38.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 20 22 12 | ? 18 26 | 24 14 16. What is the missing number?
- 39.Magic trick! Think of 17. Double it, add 4, halve it, then take away 17. What number do you get?
- 40.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 38 =
Answer key
- 6
- 208
- Tuesday
- 4
- 987654321
- 100
- 6
- 4
- 112
- 1089
- 100
- 3
- 465
- 2
- 9
- 182
- 10
- 63
- 42000
- 13
- 152
- 216
- 10
- 495
- 19
- 21
- 224
- 25
- 12
- 81
- 276
- 44
- 35
- 8
- 27
- 24
- 49
- 10
- 2
- 741
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