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 770. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 2.43 × 4 =
- 3.Double 38 =
- 4.426? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 5.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 32 11 | 14 ? 26 | 29 8 23. What is the missing number?
- 6.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 26 ? 20 | 11 17 23 | 14 29 8. What is the missing number?
- 7.36 × 4 =
- 8.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 16 11 | 14 12 ? | 13 8 15. What is the missing number?
- 9.42 × ? = 4200
- 10.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 7 2 9 | 8 6 4 | ? 10 5. What is the missing number?
- 11.123 × 9 + 4 =
- 12.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 13.111111 × 111111 =
- 14.37 × 18 =
- 15.Double 21 =
- 16.6 × 9 =
- 17.What comes next? 16, 25, 36, 49, ? (a) 66 (b) 65 (c) 62 (d) 64
- 18.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 19.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 26 ? 14 | 5 17 29 | 20 23 8. What is the missing number?
- 20.12 × 8 + 2 =
- 21.1111 × 1111 =
- 22.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 4 18 ? | 14 10 6 | 12 2 16. What is the missing number?
- 23.9 × 8 =
- 24.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 25.Think of 9. Multiply it by 5, then add 6. What number do you end with?
- 26.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 45 =
- 27.21 × 4 =
- 28.11111 × 11111 =
- 29.5 × 9 =
- 30.2 × 9 =
- 31.9 × 10 =
- 32.792 + 297 =
- 33.Think of 10. Multiply it by 4, then add 7. What number do you end with?
- 34.A father is 32 years old and his son is 7. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 35.Take 97 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 36.Think of 10. Multiply it by 5, then add 3. What number do you end with?
- 37.What comes next? 13, 15, 17, 19, ? (a) 22 (b) 19 (c) 21 (d) 23
- 38.468 × ? = 4680
- 39.9 × 7 =
- 40.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 5. I got 65. What was my number?
Answer key
- 693
- 172
- 76
- 6
- 20
- 5
- 144
- 10
- 100
- 3
- 1111
- 8
- 12345654321
- 666
- 42
- 54
- 64
- 198
- 11
- 98
- 1234321
- 8
- 72
- 891
- 51
- 529
- 84
- 123454321
- 45
- 18
- 90
- 1089
- 47
- 25
- 81
- 53
- 21
- 10
- 63
- 15
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