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Pick Pocket Math Number Trick

This Pick Pocket Math Number Trick helps kids get practice with addition, subtraction, and multiplication all in one shot! You get a chance to really impress your friends and family by correctly guessing the amount of change they have in their pockets!

The math behind the trick works every time so you will guess right all the time. Ready! Let's go!

What You Need:

A willing participant
Willing participant needs to have an undetermined amount of change in their pocket.
Paper
Pencil

What To Do:

Ask the person to take his/her age and multiply it by 2.
Add 5.
Multiply this sum by 50.
Subtract 365.
Add the amount of loose pocket change, but do NOT count change totaling $1 or over (i.e., must be less than $1)
Add 115 -- final outcome:

Notice that the first two digits will be the person's age,and the last two digits are the amount of the person's pocket change.

Pretty Cool Stuff!

There are plenty more math tricks like this on this site. You may also want to check out the elementary math games and or the middle school math games pages as well.

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