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.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 2.Take 163. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 3.198 + 891 =
- 4.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 5.495 + 594 =
- 6.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 7.Do the 1089 trick with 357: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 8.Do the 1089 trick with 630: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 9.792 + 297 =
- 10.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 11.693 + 396 =
- 12.Do the 1089 trick with 621: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 13.Do the 1089 trick with 862: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 14.297 + 792 =
- 15.891 + 198 =
- 16.Take 451. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 17.Do the 1089 trick with 335: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 18.Do the 1089 trick with 550: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 19.Take 245. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 20.Do the 1089 trick with 278: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 21.Take 755. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 22.Do the 1089 trick with 950: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 23.396 + 693 =
- 24.Take 993. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 25.Do the 1089 trick with 320: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 26.Do the 1089 trick with 742: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 27.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 28.Take 900. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 29.Take 951. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 30.Take 960. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 31.Do the 1089 trick with 982: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 32.Take 750. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 33.Take 320. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 34.Do the 1089 trick with 456: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 35.Do the 1089 trick with 990: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 36.Do the 1089 trick with 249: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 37.Take 791. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 38.Take 305. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.Take 347. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 40.Do the 1089 trick with 810: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
Answer key
- 594
- 198
- 1089
- 891
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 396
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 297
- 1089
- 1089
- 297
- 1089
- 198
- 1089
- 1089
- 594
- 1089
- 1089
- 297
- 891
- 792
- 891
- 1089
- 693
- 297
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 594
- 198
- 396
- 1089
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