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 910: 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?
- 3.693 + 396 =
- 4.Take 780. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 5.792 + 297 =
- 6.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 7.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 8.Do the 1089 trick with 971: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 9.198 + 891 =
- 10.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 11.Do the 1089 trick with 732: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 12.Do the 1089 trick with 990: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 13.Do the 1089 trick with 896: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 14.Take 158. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 15.Take 107. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 16.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 17.Do the 1089 trick with 416: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 18.Do the 1089 trick with 486: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 19.Take 794. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 20.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 21.Take 530. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 22.Take 663. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 23.Do the 1089 trick with 920: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 24.Do the 1089 trick with 660: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 25.Do the 1089 trick with 965: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 26.396 + 693 =
- 27.Do the 1089 trick with 683: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 28.Take 660. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 29.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 30.495 + 594 =
- 31.Do the 1089 trick with 490: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 32.Do the 1089 trick with 907: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 33.Do the 1089 trick with 138: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 34.Do the 1089 trick with 974: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 35.594 + 495 =
- 36.Take 217. 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 8. What is that number?
- 38.Take 855. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.891 + 198 =
- 40.Take 836. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
Answer key
- 1089
- 396
- 1089
- 693
- 1089
- 693
- 297
- 1089
- 1089
- 792
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 693
- 594
- 198
- 1089
- 1089
- 297
- 594
- 495
- 297
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 594
- 495
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 495
- 891
- 297
- 1089
- 198
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