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 290: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 2.Do the 1089 trick with 156: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 3.Do the 1089 trick with 500: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 4.Take 980. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 5.Do the 1089 trick with 467: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 6.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 7.Do the 1089 trick with 461: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 8.Do the 1089 trick with 740: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 9.Take 409. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 10.Do the 1089 trick with 682: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 11.Do the 1089 trick with 932: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 12.Do the 1089 trick with 900: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 13.Take 816. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 14.Do the 1089 trick with 329: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 15.Do the 1089 trick with 872: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 16.Take 931. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 17.Take 982. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 18.891 + 198 =
- 19.297 + 792 =
- 20.Take 952. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 21.Take 890. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 22.Take 537. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 23.Take 924. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 24.Do the 1089 trick with 250: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 25.Take 195. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 26.Take 600. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 27.Take 410. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 28.Take 497. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 29.Do the 1089 trick with 991: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 30.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 31.Do the 1089 trick with 490: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 32.Take 810. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 33.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 34.Take 785. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 35.Take 722. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 36.594 + 495 =
- 37.Take 942. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 38.Take 581. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.Do the 1089 trick with 960: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 40.Take 276. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
Answer key
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 891
- 1089
- 297
- 1089
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 198
- 1089
- 1089
- 792
- 693
- 1089
- 1089
- 693
- 792
- 198
- 495
- 1089
- 396
- 594
- 396
- 297
- 1089
- 198
- 1089
- 792
- 396
- 198
- 495
- 1089
- 693
- 396
- 1089
- 396
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