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 379: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 2.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 3.198 + 891 =
- 4.Take 669. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 5.792 + 297 =
- 6.297 + 792 =
- 7.Take 650. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 8.Do the 1089 trick with 830: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 9.Take 860. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 10.Do the 1089 trick with 775: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 11.Do the 1089 trick with 740: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 12.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 13.Do the 1089 trick with 985: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 14.Take 920. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 15.Do the 1089 trick with 692: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 16.Do the 1089 trick with 410: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 17.Take 962. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 18.Take 930. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 19.Do the 1089 trick with 468: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 20.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 21.Take 159. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 22.Do the 1089 trick with 702: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 23.Take 157. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 24.Take 378. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 25.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 26.594 + 495 =
- 27.Do the 1089 trick with 930: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 28.Take 600. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 29.891 + 198 =
- 30.Take 990. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 31.Take 700. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 32.Take 118. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 33.Do the 1089 trick with 360: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 34.Take 673. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 35.Take 198. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 36.Do the 1089 trick with 920: 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 4. What is that number?
- 38.Do the 1089 trick with 267: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 39.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 40.Take 298. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
Answer key
- 1089
- 594
- 1089
- 297
- 1089
- 1089
- 594
- 1089
- 792
- 1089
- 1089
- 198
- 1089
- 891
- 1089
- 1089
- 693
- 891
- 1089
- 297
- 792
- 1089
- 594
- 495
- 693
- 1089
- 1089
- 594
- 1089
- 891
- 693
- 693
- 1089
- 297
- 693
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 891
- 594
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