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.Take 806. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 2.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 3.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 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 136: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 6.Take 900. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 7.Take 791. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 8.297 + 792 =
- 9.495 + 594 =
- 10.Take 815. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 11.Take 410. 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 2. What is that number?
- 13.Take 690. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 14.Do the 1089 trick with 611: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 15.Take 438. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 16.891 + 198 =
- 17.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 18.693 + 396 =
- 19.Do the 1089 trick with 701: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 20.198 + 891 =
- 21.Do the 1089 trick with 900: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 22.Take 158. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 23.Take 651. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 24.Take 198. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 25.Take 340. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 26.Do the 1089 trick with 910: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 27.Do the 1089 trick with 570: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 28.Do the 1089 trick with 640: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 29.Do the 1089 trick with 490: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 30.Do the 1089 trick with 502: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 31.Do the 1089 trick with 652: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 32.Take 920. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 33.Do the 1089 trick with 987: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 34.Take 350. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 35.Do the 1089 trick with 560: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 36.Take 215. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 37.594 + 495 =
- 38.Take 840. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.Take 610. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 40.Take 723. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
Answer key
- 198
- 891
- 792
- 594
- 1089
- 891
- 594
- 1089
- 1089
- 297
- 396
- 297
- 594
- 1089
- 396
- 1089
- 396
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 693
- 495
- 693
- 297
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 891
- 1089
- 297
- 1089
- 297
- 1089
- 792
- 594
- 396
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