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.?096 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 2.14 × 1000 =
- 3.9 × 5 =
- 4.What comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ? (a) 33 (b) 24 (c) 28 (d) 32
- 5.3?4 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 6.Take 29 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 7.If today is Monday, what day was it 18 days ago? (a) Wednesday (b) Thursday (c) Friday (d) Sunday
- 8.Take 70 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 9.Take 742. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 10.What comes next? 3, 6, 12, 24, ? (a) 49 (b) 42 (c) 36 (d) 48
- 11.Take 68 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 12.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 7 8 | ? 9 13 | 10 11 6. What is the missing number?
- 13.3?80 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 14.Double 23 =
- 15.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 10 =
- 16.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 17.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 60 (b) 70 (c) 80 (d) 81
- 18.I thought of a number, added 1 and then doubled it. I got 14. What was my number?
- 19.2 × 1000 =
- 20.A father is 32 years old and his son is 6. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 21.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 18 days? (a) Friday (b) Thursday (c) Monday (d) Saturday
- 22.3 × 9 =
- 23.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 3. I got 24. What was my number?
- 24.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 25.7?1 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 26.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 27.693 + 396 =
- 28.396 + 693 =
- 29.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 12 13 | 10 ? 18 | 15 16 11. What is the missing number?
- 30.Think of 8. Multiply it by 3, then add 1. What number do you end with?
- 31.What comes next? 12, 19, 26, 33, ? (a) 47 (b) 41 (c) 40 (d) 33
- 32.Think of 10. Multiply it by 4, then add 6. What number do you end with?
- 33.Double 54 =
- 34.195 × ? = 1950
- 35.?678 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 36.594 + 495 =
- 37.12345679 × 81 =
- 38.Take 681. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 40.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 29 =
Answer key
- 3
- 14000
- 45
- 32
- 2
- 18
- Thursday
- 63
- 495
- 48
- 54
- 5
- 7
- 46
- 55
- 4
- 80
- 6
- 2000
- 26
- Friday
- 27
- 7
- 3
- 1
- 5
- 1089
- 1089
- 14
- 25
- 40
- 46
- 108
- 10
- 6
- 1089
- 999999999
- 495
- 297
- 225
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