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 644: 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 5. What is that number?
- 3.891 + 198 =
- 4.297 + 792 =
- 5.Do the 1089 trick with 795: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 6.Do the 1089 trick with 306: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 7.Take 650. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 8.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 9.Take 870. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 10.Do the 1089 trick with 641: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 11.Take 640. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 12.396 + 693 =
- 13.Do the 1089 trick with 518: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 14.Do the 1089 trick with 410: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 15.Take 891. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 16.Take 317. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 17.Take 943. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 18.Take 724. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 19.495 + 594 =
- 20.Do the 1089 trick with 984: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 21.198 + 891 =
- 22.Do the 1089 trick with 981: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 23.Take 325. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 24.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 25.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 26.Do the 1089 trick with 500: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 27.Take 880. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. 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.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 30.Do the 1089 trick with 452: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 31.Do the 1089 trick with 106: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 32.Do the 1089 trick with 380: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 33.Take 195. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 34.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 35.Do the 1089 trick with 610: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 36.Take 307. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 37.Take 196. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 38.Do the 1089 trick with 910: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 39.Take 149. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 40.Do the 1089 trick with 841: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
Answer key
- 1089
- 594
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 594
- 297
- 792
- 1089
- 594
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 693
- 396
- 594
- 297
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 198
- 891
- 792
- 1089
- 792
- 693
- 693
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 396
- 396
- 1089
- 396
- 495
- 1089
- 792
- 1089
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