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 4. What is that number?
- 2.Do the 1089 trick with 127: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 3.297 + 792 =
- 4.495 + 594 =
- 5.Take 980. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 6.Take 845. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 7.693 + 396 =
- 8.Take 227. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 9.Do the 1089 trick with 462: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 10.Take 492. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 11.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 12.Take 119. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 13.Take 116. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 14.396 + 693 =
- 15.Take 570. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 16.Do the 1089 trick with 920: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 17.Take 964. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 18.Do the 1089 trick with 931: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 19.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 20.Do the 1089 trick with 940: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 21.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 22.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 23.Take 863. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 24.Take 850. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 25.Take 431. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 26.Take 123. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 27.Take 618. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 28.Do the 1089 trick with 924: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 29.Take 810. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 30.Take 965. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 31.792 + 297 =
- 32.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 33.Take 226. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 34.Do the 1089 trick with 335: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 35.Take 107. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 36.Do the 1089 trick with 963: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 37.Take 418. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 38.Take 195. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.198 + 891 =
- 40.Take 760. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
Answer key
- 495
- 1089
- 1089
- 1089
- 891
- 297
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 198
- 792
- 792
- 495
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 891
- 1089
- 297
- 396
- 495
- 792
- 297
- 198
- 198
- 1089
- 792
- 396
- 1089
- 594
- 396
- 1089
- 594
- 1089
- 396
- 396
- 1089
- 693
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