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? 1, 4, 9, 16, ? (a) 27 (b) 25 (c) 26 (d) 23
- 2.Half of 66 =
- 3.9 × 4 = 3? — what is the missing digit?
- 4.30 × ? = 3000
- 5.9 × 2 = ?8 — what is the missing digit?
- 6.9 × 6 = 5? — what is the missing digit?
- 7.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 9 2 7 | 4 6 8 | 5 ? 3. What is the missing number?
- 8.10 × 9 =
- 9.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 88 =
- 10.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 20 6 | 8 12 ? | 18 4 14. What is the missing number?
- 11.3 × 9 =
- 12.If today is Friday, what day was it 31 days ago? (a) Monday (b) Wednesday (c) Friday (d) Tuesday
- 13.9 × 10 = 9? — what is the missing digit?
- 14.The 1st of a month is a Monday. What day is the 11th of the same month? (a) Friday (b) Sunday (c) Thursday (d) Wednesday
- 15.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 38 =
- 16.A father is 35 years old and his son is 12. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 17.What comes next? 16, 25, 36, 49, ? (a) 65 (b) 62 (c) 64 (d) 66
- 18.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 19 9 23 | 21 ? 13 | 11 25 15. What is the missing number?
- 19.37 × 1000 =
- 20.56 × 4 =
- 21.9 × 3 = 2? — what is the missing digit?
- 22.9 × 6 =
- 23.9 × 6 = ?4 — what is the missing digit?
- 24.If today is Tuesday, what day was it 35 days ago? (a) Monday (b) Friday (c) Wednesday (d) Tuesday
- 25.If today is Wednesday, what day will it be after 53 days? (a) Wednesday (b) Saturday (c) Sunday (d) Monday
- 26.169 × ? = 1690
- 27.40 × 4 =
- 28.9 × 5 =
- 29.38 × 1000 =
- 30.396 + 693 =
- 31.9 × 2 =
- 32.954 × 10 =
- 33.Take 99 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 34.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 6 times table? (a) 36 (b) 18 (c) 54 (d) 17
- 35.9 × 8 =
- 36.If today is Sunday, what day was it 49 days ago? (a) Monday (b) Wednesday (c) Sunday (d) Saturday
- 37.98 × 100 =
- 38.What comes next? 9, 17, 25, 33, ? (a) 49 (b) 33 (c) 41 (d) 42
- 39.12 × 4 =
- 40.Double 81 =
Answer key
- 25
- 33
- 6
- 100
- 1
- 4
- 10
- 90
- 3916
- 16
- 27
- Tuesday
- 0
- Thursday
- 741
- 23
- 64
- 17
- 37000
- 224
- 7
- 54
- 5
- Tuesday
- Sunday
- 10
- 160
- 45
- 38000
- 1089
- 18
- 9540
- 81
- 17
- 72
- Sunday
- 9800
- 41
- 48
- 162
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