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 8. What is that number?
- 2.Do the 1089 trick with 410: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 3.Do the 1089 trick with 350: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 4.Do the 1089 trick with 900: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 5.396 + 693 =
- 6.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. 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 810: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 9.Do the 1089 trick with 427: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 10.Do the 1089 trick with 133: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 11.Take 744. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 12.594 + 495 =
- 13.Take 511. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 14.Do the 1089 trick with 940: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 15.Do the 1089 trick with 970: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 16.Take 377. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 17.Take 960. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 18.891 + 198 =
- 19.198 + 891 =
- 20.Take 982. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 21.Do the 1089 trick with 136: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 22.Take 710. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 23.693 + 396 =
- 24.Take 562. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 25.Take 449. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 26.Take 970. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 27.Take 301. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 28.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 29.Take 409. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 30.Take 930. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 31.Take 961. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 32.Do the 1089 trick with 581: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 33.Do the 1089 trick with 219: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 34.Do the 1089 trick with 107: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 35.Do the 1089 trick with 648: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 36.Take 183. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 37.Take 308. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 38.Take 851. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.Do the 1089 trick with 842: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 40.495 + 594 =
Answer key
- 891
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 495
- 297
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 297
- 1089
- 396
- 1089
- 1089
- 396
- 891
- 1089
- 1089
- 693
- 1089
- 693
- 1089
- 297
- 495
- 891
- 198
- 693
- 495
- 891
- 792
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 198
- 495
- 693
- 1089
- 1089
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