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 167: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 2.Take 366. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 3.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 4.Do the 1089 trick with 541: 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 2. What is that number?
- 6.594 + 495 =
- 7.Take 462. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 8.Take 926. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 9.396 + 693 =
- 10.Take 850. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 11.Take 451. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 12.Take 781. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 13.Take 720. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 14.Take 799. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 15.Take 920. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 16.495 + 594 =
- 17.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 18.297 + 792 =
- 19.891 + 198 =
- 20.Take 875. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 21.Take 240. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 22.Take 880. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 23.Do the 1089 trick with 643: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 24.Take 873. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 25.Do the 1089 trick with 618: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 26.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 27.Do the 1089 trick with 289: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 28.198 + 891 =
- 29.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 30.Take 400. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 31.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 32.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 33.693 + 396 =
- 34.Take 390. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 35.Do the 1089 trick with 542: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 36.Take 910. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 37.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 38.Take 218. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.Take 900. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 40.Take 590. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
Answer key
- 1089
- 297
- 792
- 1089
- 297
- 1089
- 198
- 297
- 1089
- 792
- 297
- 594
- 693
- 198
- 891
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 1089
- 297
- 198
- 792
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 693
- 1089
- 1089
- 198
- 396
- 594
- 891
- 1089
- 297
- 1089
- 891
- 396
- 594
- 891
- 495
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