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): 4 14 12 | 18 10 ? | 8 6 16. What is the missing number?
- 2.What comes next? 36, 49, 64, 81, ? (a) 101 (b) 98 (c) 102 (d) 100
- 3.Do the 1089 trick with 480: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 4.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 5.11 × 11 =
- 6.Take 14 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 7.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 8.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 17 (b) 12 (c) 14 (d) 16
- 9.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 9 24 | 27 15 ? | 6 21 18. What is the missing number?
- 10.The 2nd of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 27th of the same month? (a) Monday (b) Sunday (c) Wednesday (d) Saturday
- 11.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 45 =
- 12.47 × 4 =
- 13.You have 7 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹9. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 14.9 × 4 =
- 15.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 39 =
- 16.12 × 4 =
- 17.37 × 15 =
- 18.42 × 4 =
- 19.If today is Friday, what day will it be after 97 days? (a) Sunday (b) Friday (c) Wednesday (d) Thursday
- 20.A girl is 12 years old and her brother is 4 years older. How old will her brother be in 9 years?
- 21.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 31 16 | 25 ? 13 | 22 7 28. What is the missing number?
- 22.396 + 693 =
- 23.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 9 =
- 24.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 25.The ages of two twins add up to 22. How old is each twin?
- 26.You have 10 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹11. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 27.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 32 (b) 24 (c) 28 (d) 33
- 28.55 × 4 =
- 29.11 × 4 =
- 30.57 × ? = 570
- 31.The 3rd of a month is a Tuesday. What day is the 11th of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Tuesday (c) Saturday (d) Wednesday
- 32.If today is Wednesday, what day will it be after 91 days? (a) Saturday (b) Tuesday (c) Wednesday (d) Thursday
- 33.Do the 1089 trick with 912: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 34.I thought of a number, added 2 and then doubled it. I got 26. What was my number?
- 35.Take 99 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 36.9 × 3 =
- 37.Double 83 =
- 38.10 × 9 =
- 39.The 1st of a month is a Thursday. What day is the 13th of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Friday (c) Wednesday (d) Monday
- 40.Double 97 =
Answer key
- 2
- 100
- 1089
- 1
- 121
- 9
- 4
- 16
- 3
- Sunday
- 529
- 188
- 2
- 36
- 780
- 48
- 555
- 168
- Thursday
- 25
- 19
- 1089
- 25
- 3
- 11
- 1
- 32
- 220
- 44
- 10
- Wednesday
- Wednesday
- 1089
- 11
- 81
- 27
- 166
- 90
- Tuesday
- 194
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