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 6. What is that number?
- 2.198 + 891 =
- 3.792 + 297 =
- 4.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 5.Do the 1089 trick with 820: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 6.297 + 792 =
- 7.Take 732. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 8.Do the 1089 trick with 641: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 9.594 + 495 =
- 10.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 11.693 + 396 =
- 12.Take 920. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 13.Do the 1089 trick with 134: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 14.Do the 1089 trick with 254: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 15.Take 740. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 16.Do the 1089 trick with 592: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 17.Take 910. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 18.396 + 693 =
- 19.Take 540. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 20.Take 440. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 21.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 22.Do the 1089 trick with 176: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 23.Do the 1089 trick with 578: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 24.Do the 1089 trick with 400: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 25.Take 916. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 26.Do the 1089 trick with 900: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 27.Do the 1089 trick with 450: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 28.Take 149. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 29.Take 710. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 30.Take 702. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 31.495 + 594 =
- 32.Do the 1089 trick with 318: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 33.Do the 1089 trick with 850: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 34.Do the 1089 trick with 598: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 35.Take 810. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 36.Do the 1089 trick with 810: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 37.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 38.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 39.Take 831. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 40.Take 612. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
Answer key
- 693
- 1089
- 1089
- 594
- 1089
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 1089
- 297
- 1089
- 891
- 1089
- 1089
- 693
- 1089
- 891
- 1089
- 495
- 396
- 198
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 297
- 1089
- 1089
- 792
- 693
- 495
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 792
- 1089
- 891
- 396
- 693
- 396
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