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
- 1.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 19 =
- 2.821 × 10 =
- 3.Take 709. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 4.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 9 =
- 5.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 17 7 | 5 13 21 | 19 9 11. What is the missing number?
- 6.Take 275. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 7.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 32 days? (a) Saturday (b) Monday (c) Friday (d) Thursday
- 8.9 × 7 = 6? — what is the missing digit?
- 9.652? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 10.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 17 =
- 11.I thought of a number, added 7 and then doubled it. I got 24. What was my number?
- 12.29 × 4 =
- 13.Do the 1089 trick with 297: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 14.9 × 1 =
- 15.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 2 and added 8. I got 26. What was my number?
- 16.9 × 1000 =
- 17.What comes next? 16, 20, 24, 28, ? (a) 36 (b) 32 (c) 28 (d) 33
- 18.The ages of two twins add up to 26. How old is each twin?
- 19.Double 71 =
- 20.9 × 2 =
- 21.33 × 1000 =
- 22.123456 × 9 + 7 =
- 23.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 8 29 | 26 20 14 | 11 32 17. What is the missing number?
- 24.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 6. I got 31. What was my number?
- 25.The ages of two twins add up to 14. How old is each twin?
- 26.7 × 9 =
- 27.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 28.Think of 3. Multiply it by 2, then add 7. What number do you end with?
- 29.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 21 days? (a) Friday (b) Tuesday (c) Sunday (d) Saturday
- 30.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 23 =
- 31.43 × 4 =
- 32.9 × 7 = ?3 — what is the missing digit?
- 33.Think of 10. Multiply it by 4, then add 3. What number do you end with?
- 34.12345 × 8 + 5 =
- 35.Take 775. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 36.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 37.Half of 156 =
- 38.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 6. I got 56. What was my number?
- 39.If today is Thursday, what day will it be after 83 days? (a) Tuesday (b) Thursday (c) Wednesday (d) Saturday
- 40.9 × 9 =
Answer key
- 190
- 8210
- 198
- 25
- 15
- 297
- Friday
- 3
- 5
- 81
- 5
- 116
- 1089
- 9
- 9
- 9000
- 32
- 13
- 142
- 18
- 33000
- 1111111
- 23
- 5
- 7
- 63
- 495
- 13
- Saturday
- 144
- 172
- 6
- 43
- 98765
- 198
- 3
- 78
- 10
- Wednesday
- 81
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