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 548: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 2.Do the 1089 trick with 810: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 3.891 + 198 =
- 4.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 5.792 + 297 =
- 6.Do the 1089 trick with 245: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 7.Do the 1089 trick with 920: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 8.396 + 693 =
- 9.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 10.Take 801. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 11.Do the 1089 trick with 482: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 12.Take 396. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 13.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 14.198 + 891 =
- 15.297 + 792 =
- 16.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 17.Take 907. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 18.Take 912. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 19.Take 440. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 20.Take 189. 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 8. What is that number?
- 22.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 23.Take 492. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 24.Take 107. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 25.693 + 396 =
- 26.Do the 1089 trick with 960: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 27.Do the 1089 trick with 975: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 28.Take 289. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 29.Do the 1089 trick with 551: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 30.Do the 1089 trick with 940: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 31.Take 977. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 32.Take 389. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 33.Do the 1089 trick with 395: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 34.495 + 594 =
- 35.Take 725. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 36.Do the 1089 trick with 990: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 37.Take 920. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 38.Take 512. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.Do the 1089 trick with 750: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 40.Take 870. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
Answer key
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 198
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 396
- 693
- 1089
- 297
- 792
- 1089
- 1089
- 693
- 198
- 693
- 396
- 792
- 891
- 495
- 198
- 594
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 693
- 1089
- 1089
- 198
- 594
- 1089
- 1089
- 198
- 1089
- 891
- 297
- 1089
- 792
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