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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- 1.776? is in the 9 times table. One digit is hidden, and it is not 0. What is the hidden digit?
- 2.What comes next? 6, 8, 10, 12, ? (a) 15 (b) 12 (c) 14 (d) 16
- 3.If today is Sunday, what day was it 54 days ago? (a) Friday (b) Monday (c) Wednesday (d) Tuesday
- 4.The 8th of a month is a Saturday. What day is the 16th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Monday (c) Wednesday (d) Sunday
- 5.662 × 10 =
- 6.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 7.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 45 =
- 8.5 × 10 =
- 9.Take 992. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 10.11111 × 11111 =
- 11.The 6th of a month is a Thursday. What day is the 20th of the same month? (a) Thursday (b) Friday (c) Sunday (d) Wednesday
- 12.Take 32 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 13.10 × 9 =
- 14.89 × ? = 8900
- 15.What comes next? 25, 36, 49, 64, ? (a) 79 (b) 82 (c) 81 (d) 83
- 16.37 × 21 =
- 17.Think of 5. Multiply it by 3, then add 4. What number do you end with?
- 18.Take 19 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 19.I thought of a number, added 5 and then doubled it. I got 30. What was my number?
- 20.What comes next? 15, 22, 29, 36, ? (a) 50 (b) 43 (c) 44 (d) 36
- 21.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 37 =
- 22.Take 43 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 23.Take 73 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 24.In 2 years a boy will be 12 years old. How old was he 3 years ago?
- 25.Half of 82 =
- 26.28 × 4 =
- 27.891 + 198 =
- 28.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 38 =
- 29.If today is Saturday, what day will it be after 45 days? (a) Friday (b) Wednesday (c) Monday (d) Tuesday
- 30.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 31.198 + 891 =
- 32.9 × 2 =
- 33.Take 910. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 34.3 × 9 =
- 35.284 × ? = 2840
- 36.16 × 4 =
- 37.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 21 6 27 | 24 ? 12 | 9 30 15. What is the missing number?
- 38.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 39.29 × ? = 2900
- 40.Magic trick! Think of 6. Double it, add 12, halve it, then take away 6. What number do you get?
Answer key
- 7
- 14
- Tuesday
- Sunday
- 6620
- 693
- 529
- 50
- 693
- 123454321
- Thursday
- 27
- 90
- 100
- 81
- 777
- 19
- 9
- 10
- 43
- 361
- 36
- 63
- 7
- 41
- 112
- 1089
- 741
- Tuesday
- 1
- 1089
- 18
- 891
- 27
- 10
- 64
- 18
- 5
- 100
- 6
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