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.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 2.Do the 1089 trick with 730: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 3.198 + 891 =
- 4.792 + 297 =
- 5.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 6.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 7.Do the 1089 trick with 830: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 8.Take 411. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 9.Do the 1089 trick with 440: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 10.Take 682. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 11.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 12.891 + 198 =
- 13.Take 350. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 14.Take 745. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 15.Take 813. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 16.Take 720. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 17.Take 714. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 18.Do the 1089 trick with 185: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 19.693 + 396 =
- 20.Take 951. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 21.Do the 1089 trick with 623: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 22.Take 934. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 23.Do the 1089 trick with 947: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 24.Take 950. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 25.Take 953. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 26.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 27.495 + 594 =
- 28.Do the 1089 trick with 469: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 29.594 + 495 =
- 30.Do the 1089 trick with 104: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 31.396 + 693 =
- 32.Do the 1089 trick with 920: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 33.Do the 1089 trick with 870: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 34.297 + 792 =
- 35.Take 658. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 36.Take 781. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 37.Take 990. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 38.Do the 1089 trick with 926: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 39.Do the 1089 trick with 713: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 40.Take 920. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
Answer key
- 297
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 495
- 792
- 1089
- 297
- 1089
- 396
- 396
- 1089
- 297
- 198
- 495
- 693
- 297
- 1089
- 1089
- 792
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 891
- 594
- 594
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 198
- 594
- 891
- 1089
- 1089
- 891
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