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.Take 209. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 2.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 15 ? | 3 11 19 | 17 7 9. What is the missing number?
- 3.9 × 5 =
- 4.Half of 42 =
- 5.12345678 × 8 + 8 =
- 6.Double 77 =
- 7.If today is Wednesday, what day will it be after 100 days? (a) Saturday (b) Monday (c) Thursday (d) Friday
- 8.58 × 4 =
- 9.Double 43 =
- 10.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 11.123 × 9 + 4 =
- 12.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 43 =
- 13.15 × 4 =
- 14.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 15.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 28 13 | 22 16 10 | ? 4 25. What is the missing number?
- 16.Think of 13. Multiply it by 5, then add 2. What number do you end with?
- 17.A girl is 6 years old and her brother is 4 years older. How old will her brother be in 7 years?
- 18.What comes next? 3, 6, 12, 24, ? (a) 48 (b) 36 (c) 49 (d) 42
- 19.1234 × 9 + 5 =
- 20.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 21.19 × 4 =
- 22.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 36 days? (a) Friday (b) Tuesday (c) Wednesday (d) Monday
- 23.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 24.37 × 27 =
- 25.838 × 10 =
- 26.Take 713. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 27.198 + 891 =
- 28.693 + 396 =
- 29.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 79 =
- 30.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 42 =
- 31.1 × 9 =
- 32.If today is Thursday, what day will it be after 22 days? (a) Saturday (b) Thursday (c) Monday (d) Friday
- 33.123456789 × 8 + 9 =
- 34.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 6 7 | 4 8 12 | 9 10 5. What is the missing number?
- 35.Do the 1089 trick with 562: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 36.2 × 9 =
- 37.What comes next? 1, 2, 4, 8, ? (a) 14 (b) 12 (c) 17 (d) 16
- 38.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 11 =
- 39.Do the 1089 trick with 703: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 40.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 80 days? (a) Wednesday (b) Thursday (c) Friday (d) Sunday
Answer key
- 693
- 5
- 45
- 21
- 98765432
- 154
- Friday
- 232
- 86
- 891
- 1111
- 484
- 60
- 495
- 19
- 67
- 17
- 48
- 11111
- 9
- 76
- Tuesday
- 7
- 999
- 8380
- 396
- 1089
- 1089
- 3160
- 903
- 9
- Friday
- 987654321
- 11
- 1089
- 18
- 16
- 36
- 1089
- Thursday
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