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.What comes next? 14, 16, 18, 20, ? (a) 23 (b) 20 (c) 24 (d) 22
- 2.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 26 =
- 3.Half of 196 =
- 4.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 5.The ages of two twins add up to 28. How old is each twin?
- 6.The 3rd of a month is a Saturday. What day is the 15th of the same month? (a) Wednesday (b) Sunday (c) Thursday (d) Friday
- 7.Think of 7. Multiply it by 2, then add 7. What number do you end with?
- 8.Magic trick! Think of 3. Double it, add 16, halve it, then take away 3. What number do you get?
- 9.321 × 10 =
- 10.Double 99 =
- 11.What comes next? 2, 9, 16, 23, ? (a) 37 (b) 23 (c) 30 (d) 31
- 12.1 × 9 =
- 13.Think of 10. Multiply it by 4, then add 8. What number do you end with?
- 14.What comes next? 5, 10, 20, 40, ? (a) 60 (b) 81 (c) 80 (d) 70
- 15.4 × 9 =
- 16.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 77 =
- 17.Half of 148 =
- 18.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 19.37 × 9 =
- 20.Take 29 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 21.I thought of a number, added 2 and then doubled it. I got 22. What was my number?
- 22.257 × ? = 2570
- 23.What comes next? 5, 11, 17, 23, ? (a) 30 (b) 35 (c) 29 (d) 23
- 24.76 × ? = 7600
- 25.Half of 138 =
- 26.12345679 × 18 =
- 27.52 × 4 =
- 28.9 × 2 = 1? — what is the missing digit?
- 29.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 30.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 5. I got 29. What was my number?
- 31.The ages of two twins add up to 12. How old is each twin?
- 32.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 33.Half of 172 =
- 34.198 + 891 =
- 35.12345679 × 45 =
- 36.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 15 =
- 37.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 3 and added 2. I got 47. What was my number?
- 38.60 × ? = 6000
- 39.Magic trick! Think of 11. Double it, add 10, halve it, then take away 11. What number do you get?
- 40.9 × 5 = ?5 — what is the missing digit?
Answer key
- 22
- 351
- 98
- 7
- 14
- Thursday
- 21
- 8
- 3210
- 198
- 30
- 9
- 48
- 80
- 36
- 3003
- 74
- 3
- 333
- 18
- 9
- 10
- 29
- 100
- 69
- 222222222
- 208
- 8
- 198
- 6
- 6
- 693
- 86
- 1089
- 555555555
- 64
- 15
- 100
- 5
- 4
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