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 162 =
- 2.37 × 12 =
- 3.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 33 (b) 32 (c) 28 (d) 24
- 4.246 × 10 =
- 5.What comes next? 25, 36, 49, 64, ? (a) 79 (b) 82 (c) 81 (d) 83
- 6.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 14 9 | 8 12 16 | ? 10 11. What is the missing number?
- 7.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 23 =
- 8.Magic trick! Think of 10. Double it, add 8, halve it, then take away 10. What number do you get?
- 9.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 14 4 | 2 10 18 | 16 6 8. What is the missing number?
- 10.10 × ? = 1000
- 11.What comes next? 9, 16, 25, 36, ? (a) 51 (b) 50 (c) 47 (d) 49
- 12.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 32 11 ? | 17 23 29 | 20 35 14. What is the missing number?
- 13.11 × 11 =
- 14.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 97 =
- 15.6 × 9 =
- 16.5?58 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 17.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 3 10 5 | 8 ? 4 | 7 2 9. What is the missing number?
- 18.40 × 1000 =
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 29 14 17 | 8 20 32 | 23 ? 11. What is the missing number?
- 20.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 21.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 22.Do the 1089 trick with 610: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 23.Take 810. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 24.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 60 (b) 81 (c) 70 (d) 80
- 25.54 × 4 =
- 26.123456 × 8 + 6 =
- 27.9 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 28.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 19 =
- 29.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 8 3 | 2 6 ? | 9 4 5. What is the missing number?
- 30.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 44 days? (a) Wednesday (b) Tuesday (c) Thursday (d) Saturday
- 31.Do the 1089 trick with 396: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 32.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 15 ? 23 | 25 17 9 | 11 21 19. What is the missing number?
- 33.93 × 100 =
- 34.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 35.1234 × 9 + 5 =
- 36.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 37.3 × 9 =
- 38.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 39.28 × 1000 =
- 40.37 × 15 =
Answer key
- 81
- 444
- 32
- 2460
- 81
- 15
- 276
- 4
- 12
- 100
- 49
- 26
- 121
- 4753
- 54
- 9
- 6
- 40000
- 26
- 594
- 9
- 1089
- 792
- 80
- 216
- 987654
- 6
- 100
- 10
- Wednesday
- 1089
- 13
- 9300
- 7
- 11111
- 297
- 27
- 1
- 28000
- 555
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