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 650: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 2.Do the 1089 trick with 104: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 3.Take 355. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 4.Do the 1089 trick with 765: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 5.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 6.Do the 1089 trick with 527: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 7.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 8.495 + 594 =
- 9.Do the 1089 trick with 327: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 10.Take 440. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 11.Do the 1089 trick with 176: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 12.Do the 1089 trick with 720: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 13.Take 873. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 14.Do the 1089 trick with 501: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 15.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 16.Do the 1089 trick with 900: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 17.Take 349. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 18.Do the 1089 trick with 406: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 19.Do the 1089 trick with 961: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 20.Do the 1089 trick with 193: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 21.297 + 792 =
- 22.Do the 1089 trick with 511: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 23.Take 885. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 24.Do the 1089 trick with 510: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 25.792 + 297 =
- 26.Take 630. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 27.198 + 891 =
- 28.Take 720. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 29.Take 369. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 30.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 31.Take 891. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 32.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 33.Do the 1089 trick with 341: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 34.891 + 198 =
- 35.Take 801. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 36.Take 254. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 37.Do the 1089 trick with 910: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 38.Take 912. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.Take 169. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 40.Take 199. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
Answer key
- 1089
- 1089
- 198
- 1089
- 594
- 1089
- 693
- 1089
- 1089
- 396
- 1089
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 297
- 1089
- 594
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 297
- 1089
- 1089
- 594
- 1089
- 693
- 594
- 396
- 693
- 198
- 1089
- 1089
- 693
- 198
- 1089
- 693
- 792
- 792
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