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 227: 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 3. What is that number?
- 3.Do the 1089 trick with 183: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 4.198 + 891 =
- 5.396 + 693 =
- 6.Do the 1089 trick with 700: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 7.Do the 1089 trick with 960: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 8.Do the 1089 trick with 400: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 9.Do the 1089 trick with 259: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 10.693 + 396 =
- 11.Take 841. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 12.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 13.Do the 1089 trick with 883: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 14.Take 165. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 15.Take 970. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 16.Take 654. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 17.Do the 1089 trick with 472: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 18.594 + 495 =
- 19.Do the 1089 trick with 923: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 20.Take 802. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 21.Do the 1089 trick with 365: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 22.Do the 1089 trick with 430: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 23.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 24.891 + 198 =
- 25.Do the 1089 trick with 790: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 26.Do the 1089 trick with 702: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 27.Take 395. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 28.Do the 1089 trick with 214: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 29.Take 439. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 30.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 31.Take 764. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 32.Take 930. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 33.Take 477. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 34.Take 843. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 35.Take 895. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 36.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 37.Take 230. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 38.Take 945. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 40.Do the 1089 trick with 136: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
Answer key
- 1089
- 396
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 693
- 693
- 1089
- 396
- 891
- 198
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 594
- 1089
- 1089
- 891
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 198
- 1089
- 495
- 594
- 297
- 891
- 297
- 495
- 297
- 297
- 198
- 396
- 792
- 1089
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