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
- 1.21 × 4 =
- 2.8 × 9 =
- 3.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 4.Double 55 =
- 5.Double 58 =
- 6.The 9th of a month is a Friday. What day is the 29th of the same month? (a) Wednesday (b) Thursday (c) Sunday (d) Friday
- 7.594 + 495 =
- 8.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 11 6 | 5 ? 13 | 12 7 8. What is the missing number?
- 9.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 18 21 6 | ? 15 27 | 24 9 12. What is the missing number?
- 10.42 × 100 =
- 11.Think of 9. Multiply it by 2, then add 3. What number do you end with?
- 12.Half of 116 =
- 13.Double 56 =
- 14.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 15.Take 920. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 16.?64 is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 17.A father is 42 years old and his son is 13. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 18.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 70 (b) 81 (c) 80 (d) 60
- 19.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 6 times table? (a) 36 (b) 29 (c) 12 (d) 30
- 20.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 4 5 | 2 6 ? | 7 8 3. What is the missing number?
- 21.Half of 136 =
- 22.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 23.The 2nd of a month is a Tuesday. What day is the 29th of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Tuesday (c) Sunday (d) Monday
- 24.7 × ? = 7000
- 25.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 51 =
- 26.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 59 =
- 27.The 6th of a month is a Tuesday. What day is the 20th of the same month? (a) Tuesday (b) Wednesday (c) Monday (d) Friday
- 28.40 × 4 =
- 29.Do the 1089 trick with 611: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 30.In 4 years a boy will be 14 years old. How old was he 4 years ago?
- 31.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 7. I got 17. What was my number?
- 32.Take 62 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 33.25 × 4 =
- 34.39 × 4 =
- 35.A father is 35 years old and his son is 7. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 36.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 37.Take 78 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 38.What comes next? 9, 16, 25, 36, ? (a) 47 (b) 51 (c) 49 (d) 50
- 39.10 × 9 =
- 40.A piggy bank has 7 coins of ₹5 and 14 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
Answer key
- 84
- 72
- 4
- 110
- 116
- Thursday
- 1089
- 9
- 3
- 4200
- 21
- 58
- 112
- 6
- 891
- 8
- 29
- 80
- 29
- 10
- 68
- 2
- Monday
- 1000
- 1326
- 1770
- Tuesday
- 160
- 1089
- 6
- 2
- 54
- 100
- 156
- 28
- 1
- 63
- 49
- 90
- 63
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