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.Half of 164 =
- 2.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 29 =
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 1 6 | 3 5 7 | ? 9 2. What is the missing number?
- 4.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 5.The 3rd of a month is a Sunday. What day is the 18th of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Tuesday (c) Sunday (d) Monday
- 6.What comes next? 4, 8, 16, 32, ? (a) 65 (b) 64 (c) 48 (d) 56
- 7.A father is 41 years old and his son is 7. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 8.5 × 9 =
- 9.The 7th of a month is a Tuesday. What day is the 17th of the same month? (a) Friday (b) Thursday (c) Monday (d) Saturday
- 10.If today is Wednesday, what day will it be after 51 days? (a) Thursday (b) Monday (c) Saturday (d) Friday
- 11.Take 67 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 12.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 13.What comes next? 9, 12, 15, 18, ? (a) 24 (b) 22 (c) 21 (d) 18
- 14.If today is Tuesday, what day was it 18 days ago? (a) Saturday (b) Monday (c) Thursday (d) Friday
- 15.Half of 142 =
- 16.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 35 =
- 17.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 23 8 29 | 26 20 14 | 11 ? 17. What is the missing number?
- 18.9 × 1 =
- 19.46 × 100 =
- 20.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 21.I thought of a number, added 1 and then doubled it. I got 8. What was my number?
- 22.You have 15 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹27. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 23.Magic trick! Think of 7. Double it, add 4, halve it, then take away 7. What number do you get?
- 24.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 25.34 × 4 =
- 26.Take 73 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 27.I thought of a number, added 2 and then doubled it. I got 42. What was my number?
- 28.80 × ? = 8000
- 29.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 96 =
- 30.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 27 6 21 | 12 18 ? | 15 30 9. What is the missing number?
- 31.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 32.411 × ? = 4110
- 33.Take 86 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 34.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 35.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 61 =
- 36.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 37.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 13 =
- 38.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 39.43 × 4 =
- 40.Double 24 =
Answer key
- 82
- 225
- 4
- 8
- Monday
- 64
- 34
- 45
- Friday
- Friday
- 54
- 297
- 21
- Friday
- 71
- 324
- 32
- 9
- 4600
- 8
- 3
- 12
- 2
- 7
- 136
- 63
- 19
- 100
- 4656
- 24
- 891
- 10
- 72
- 9
- 1891
- 396
- 49
- 2
- 172
- 48
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