1089 Trick Worksheet
The trick (Reverse and subtract): Reverse the number and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. The answer is always one of 198, 297, 396, 495, 594, 693, 792, 891: middle digit 9, first and last digits adding to 9. Reverse that answer and add: you always get 1089.
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- 1.Do the 1089 trick with 764: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 2.693 + 396 =
- 3.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 4.Take 690. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 5.Do the 1089 trick with 630: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 6.Take 900. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 7.Take 700. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 8.Take 551. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 9.Take 910. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 10.Take 345. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 11.Do the 1089 trick with 760: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 12.Do the 1089 trick with 126: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 13.396 + 693 =
- 14.Do the 1089 trick with 477: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 15.Do the 1089 trick with 149: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 16.Take 499. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 17.Do the 1089 trick with 245: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 18.198 + 891 =
- 19.297 + 792 =
- 20.Take 329. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 21.Take 743. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 22.Take 228. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 23.Do the 1089 trick with 357: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 24.Do the 1089 trick with 460: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 25.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 26.Do the 1089 trick with 577: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 27.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 28.Do the 1089 trick with 113: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 29.Take 248. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 30.Take 840. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 31.891 + 198 =
- 32.594 + 495 =
- 33.Take 721. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 34.Take 368. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 35.Take 740. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 36.Take 761. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 37.Take 410. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 38.Take 795. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.Take 250. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 40.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
Answer key
- 1089
- 1089
- 495
- 594
- 1089
- 891
- 693
- 396
- 891
- 198
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 594
- 396
- 594
- 1089
- 1089
- 792
- 1089
- 198
- 1089
- 594
- 792
- 1089
- 1089
- 594
- 495
- 693
- 594
- 396
- 198
- 198
- 693
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