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.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 4. I got 31. What was my number?
- 2.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 6. I got 10. What was my number?
- 3.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 ? 16 | 22 14 6 | 12 10 20. What is the missing number?
- 4.Think of 11. Multiply it by 2, then add 7. What number do you end with?
- 5.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 6.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 23 =
- 7.A girl is 6 years old and her brother is 3 years older. How old will her brother be in 2 years?
- 8.Magic trick! Think of 18. Double it, add 8, halve it, then take away 18. What number do you get?
- 9.12345 × 9 + 6 =
- 10.Magic trick! Think of 3. Double it, add 12, halve it, then take away 3. What number do you get?
- 11.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 30 15 | 24 18 12 | 21 6 ?. What is the missing number?
- 12.If today is Thursday, what day will it be after 45 days? (a) Saturday (b) Monday (c) Sunday (d) Wednesday
- 13.If today is Thursday, what day was it 10 days ago? (a) Thursday (b) Sunday (c) Monday (d) Tuesday
- 14.17 × 4 =
- 15.If today is Sunday, what day will it be after 87 days? (a) Saturday (b) Thursday (c) Tuesday (d) Wednesday
- 16.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 15 ? | 9 11 13 | 14 7 12. What is the missing number?
- 17.Take 63 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 18.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 11 4 9 | ? 8 10 | 7 12 5. What is the missing number?
- 20.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 67 =
- 21.5 × ? = 5000
- 22.What comes next? 10, 19, 28, 37, ? (a) 37 (b) 47 (c) 46 (d) 55
- 23.37 × 24 =
- 24.52 × 4 =
- 25.Half of 114 =
- 26.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 17 =
- 27.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 9. I got 39. What was my number?
- 28.42 × 4 =
- 29.Half of 18 =
- 30.9 × 5 = 4? — what is the missing digit?
- 31.4 × 9 =
- 32.Take 49 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 33.If today is Wednesday, what day will it be after 96 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Sunday (c) Thursday (d) Monday
- 34.435 × 10 =
- 35.123 × 9 + 4 =
- 36.8 × 9 =
- 37.The 7th of a month is a Wednesday. What day is the 25th of the same month? (a) Wednesday (b) Monday (c) Saturday (d) Sunday
- 38.The 3rd of a month is a Tuesday. What day is the 30th of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Sunday (c) Monday (d) Thursday
- 39.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 12 11 | 14 10 ? | 9 8 13. What is the missing number?
- 40.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
Answer key
- 9
- 2
- 18
- 29
- 2
- 144
- 11
- 4
- 111111
- 6
- 27
- Sunday
- Monday
- 68
- Wednesday
- 8
- 54
- 8
- 6
- 2278
- 1000
- 46
- 888
- 208
- 57
- 81
- 6
- 168
- 9
- 5
- 36
- 36
- Monday
- 4350
- 1111
- 72
- Sunday
- Monday
- 6
- 594
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