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 44 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 2.19 × 4 =
- 3.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 4.42 × ? = 42000
- 5.Take 27 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 6.9 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 7.Half of 162 =
- 8.46 × 4 =
- 9.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 8 days? (a) Thursday (b) Tuesday (c) Sunday (d) Monday
- 10.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 29 26 | 35 23 11 | ? 17 32. What is the missing number?
- 11.Do the 1089 trick with 973: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 12.Take 45 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 13.Double 87 =
- 14.9 × 9 = ?1 — what is the missing digit?
- 15.Magic trick! Think of 13. Double it, add 6, halve it, then take away 13. What number do you get?
- 16.9 × 5 =
- 17.111111 × 111111 =
- 18.5 × 9 =
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 10 3 | 4 6 8 | 9 2 7. What is the missing number?
- 20.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 26 11 14 | 5 17 29 | ? 23 8. What is the missing number?
- 21.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 22.Double 17 =
- 23.11111 × 11111 =
- 24.9 × 4 =
- 25.A girl is 10 years old and her brother is 5 years older. How old will her brother be in 7 years?
- 26.Magic trick! Think of 3. Double it, add 18, halve it, then take away 3. What number do you get?
- 27.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 3 8 7 | 10 6 2 | 5 ? 9. What is the missing number?
- 28.9 × 8 = ?2 — what is the missing digit?
- 29.9 × 9 =
- 30.74?8 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 31.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 32.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 16 6 | 4 ? 20 | 18 8 10. What is the missing number?
- 33.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 34.The ages of two twins add up to 14. How old is each twin?
- 35.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 36.95 × 10 =
- 37.Do the 1089 trick with 109: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 38.758 × 10 =
- 39.111 × 111 =
- 40.You have 7 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹12. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
Answer key
- 36
- 76
- 7
- 1000
- 18
- 6
- 81
- 184
- Monday
- 20
- 1089
- 36
- 174
- 8
- 3
- 45
- 12345654321
- 45
- 5
- 20
- 693
- 34
- 123454321
- 36
- 22
- 9
- 4
- 7
- 81
- 8
- 0
- 12
- 2
- 7
- 1
- 950
- 1089
- 7580
- 12321
- 5
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