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
- 1.9 × 9 = 8? — what is the missing digit?
- 2.Double 46 =
- 3.7 × 9 =
- 4.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 5.48 × 4 =
- 6.1111 × 1111 =
- 7.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 21 24 9 | 6 18 ? | 27 12 15. What is the missing number?
- 8.2 × 9 =
- 9.If today is Tuesday, what day was it 51 days ago? (a) Wednesday (b) Monday (c) Sunday (d) Saturday
- 10.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 100 =
- 11.43 × ? = 4300
- 12.You have 10 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹12. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 13.1234 × 8 + 4 =
- 14.134 × 10 =
- 15.Take 16 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 16.If today is Thursday, what day was it 13 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Thursday (c) Saturday (d) Monday
- 17.90 × ? = 900
- 18.Double 86 =
- 19.9 × 8 =
- 20.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 21.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 14 9 10 | 7 11 15 | ? 13 8. What is the missing number?
- 22.8 × 9 =
- 23.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
- 24.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 4 times table? (a) 8 (b) 20 (c) 32 (d) 21
- 25.29 × 4 =
- 26.Do the 1089 trick with 410: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 27.38 × 4 =
- 28.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 29.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 30.If today is Monday, what day will it be after 11 days? (a) Friday (b) Saturday (c) Thursday (d) Monday
- 31.Half of 132 =
- 32.Take 29 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 33.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 34.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 93 =
- 35.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 13 12 ? | 18 14 10 | 11 16 15. What is the missing number?
- 36.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 17 7 21 | 19 15 11 | ? 23 13. What is the missing number?
- 37.If today is Friday, what day will it be after 57 days? (a) Saturday (b) Tuesday (c) Sunday (d) Friday
- 38.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 12 17 10 | ? 13 15 | 16 9 14. What is the missing number?
- 39.I thought of a number, added 5 and then doubled it. I got 20. What was my number?
- 40.1234 × 9 + 5 =
Answer key
- 1
- 92
- 63
- 792
- 192
- 1234321
- 30
- 18
- Sunday
- 5050
- 100
- 2
- 9876
- 1340
- 9
- Friday
- 10
- 172
- 72
- 891
- 12
- 72
- 4
- 21
- 116
- 1089
- 152
- 396
- 3
- Friday
- 66
- 18
- 5
- 4371
- 17
- 9
- Saturday
- 11
- 5
- 11111
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