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.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 2.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 3.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 4.Double 77 =
- 5.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 5. I got 23. What was my number?
- 6.A girl is 8 years old and her brother is 6 years older. How old will her brother be in 9 years?
- 7.Magic trick! Think of 6. Double it, add 6, halve it, then take away 6. What number do you get?
- 8.I thought of a number, added 6 and then doubled it. I got 42. What was my number?
- 9.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 20 10 | 8 16 24 | 22 12 14. What is the missing number?
- 10.?284 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 11.15 × 10 =
- 12.I thought of a number, added 6 and then doubled it. I got 48. What was my number?
- 13.In 3 years a boy will be 16 years old. How old was he 2 years ago?
- 14.33 × 4 =
- 15.9 × 5 =
- 16.Magic trick! Think of 17. Double it, add 18, halve it, then take away 17. What number do you get?
- 17.84 × 100 =
- 18.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 19.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 20.69 × ? = 6900
- 21.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 81 (b) 70 (c) 60 (d) 80
- 22.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 23.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 26 =
- 24.9 × 2 =
- 25.Take 90 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 26.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 36 =
- 27.42 × 4 =
- 28.8 × 9 =
- 29.Take 230. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 30.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 33 (b) 32 (c) 28 (d) 24
- 31.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 1. I got 16. What was my number?
- 32.What comes next? 3, 6, 12, 24, ? (a) 42 (b) 48 (c) 36 (d) 49
- 33.12 × 9 + 3 =
- 34.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 35.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 7. I got 62. What was my number?
- 36.Take 25 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 37.The ages of two twins add up to 12. How old is each twin?
- 38.9 × 4 =
- 39.Take 33 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 40.46 × 4 =
Answer key
- 495
- 0
- 4
- 154
- 6
- 23
- 3
- 15
- 18
- 4
- 150
- 18
- 11
- 132
- 45
- 9
- 8400
- 1
- 3
- 100
- 80
- 2
- 351
- 18
- 81
- 666
- 168
- 72
- 198
- 32
- 5
- 48
- 111
- 8
- 11
- 18
- 6
- 36
- 27
- 184
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