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 7. What is that number?
- 2.495 + 594 =
- 3.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 4.Take 991. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 5.Do the 1089 trick with 907: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 6.297 + 792 =
- 7.693 + 396 =
- 8.Take 920. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 9.198 + 891 =
- 10.Take 749. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 11.Do the 1089 trick with 256: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 12.Take 780. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 13.Do the 1089 trick with 690: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 14.Take 701. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 15.Take 219. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 16.Take 834. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 17.Take 260. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 18.792 + 297 =
- 19.Do the 1089 trick with 518: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 20.Do the 1089 trick with 701: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 21.Do the 1089 trick with 981: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 22.Take 760. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 23.Take 910. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 24.Take 399. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 25.Take 573. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 26.Take 740. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 27.Do the 1089 trick with 276: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 28.Take 411. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 29.Take 903. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 30.Do the 1089 trick with 960: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 31.Take 950. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 32.Do the 1089 trick with 365: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 33.Take 520. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 34.Do the 1089 trick with 189: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 35.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 36.Take 970. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 37.891 + 198 =
- 38.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 39.Do the 1089 trick with 990: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 40.396 + 693 =
Answer key
- 792
- 1089
- 297
- 792
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 891
- 1089
- 198
- 1089
- 693
- 1089
- 594
- 693
- 396
- 198
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 693
- 891
- 594
- 198
- 693
- 1089
- 297
- 594
- 1089
- 891
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 495
- 891
- 1089
- 891
- 1089
- 1089
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