Coin Value Identification Sort Task Box

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 22 pages, 152 type-in fields

• 12 coin identification cards across 3 levels (4 cards each), one CSS-drawn coin per card at its real comparative size, and a row of coin-NAME choice tiles below it — never a picture choice, so naming can never be read off a drawing
• Every card twice: filled copper/silver coins for a laminated classroom box and outline-only coins for the photocopier — plain drawn circles, no picture library either way
• 2 coin reference strips (color and ink-saver), all four coins in ascending face value, each with its own name, value and edge description, plus a smallest-to-largest size comparison and a direct Dime/Penny/Nickel comparison
• An answer key listing every card by level, the coin shown, and the coin names printed on it
• A task box data sheet (16 rows: date, level, cards used, cards correct, cards given, percent, help given, initials)
• A percent graph, sessions across, with a level box under each session
• A filled example — an invented student, 8 sessions, every percent re-counted from its own row
• A family practice page with six of the same cards and a mini reference strip
• A phrase bank: 25 lines in 6 groups (spoken lines for running the box, written starters for the note afterward)
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

A task box built around telling coins apart by sight — Penny, Nickel, Dime and Quarter drawn as flat, CSS circles sized to their real relative diameters, with a smooth or reeded (ridged) edge on each. It comes with the same data sheet, graph and phrase bank as the rest of the collection, so this practice turns into a line on a page a case manager can bring to a meeting.

Three Levels, And The Choice Set Changes With Them

• Level 1 — 4 cards, two coin names to choose from: Penny and Quarter only, the most visually different pair in the box (a large copper coin against a small silver one), so the first cards can be answered on color and size alone.
• Level 2 — 4 cards, three coin names to choose from: Nickel, Dime and Quarter. The Penny is dropped so every choice is silver — with color no longer a clue, a child has to read size and edge.
• Level 3 — 4 cards, four coin names to choose from: all four coins together, every card. This is the only level where the Dime sits beside the Penny and the Nickel — worth more than either, yet the smallest coin in the box, a well-known mix-up.

Nothing on a card says its level except a dot code in the corner (one, two or three dots), so a mixed-up box sorts itself back together.

NO PICTURE-MATCHING, ON PURPOSE — the choice a child marks is always the coin's NAME in plain text, never a second picture of a coin. Matching one drawing to another would let a child answer without naming anything; reading and marking a name is the actual skill.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the data sheet, the graph header, the family page and the example-style notes, or print and use a pen. The card pages and reference strips print on cardstock or plain paper and cut along dashed lines. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document, and it is not a test of anything. It does not teach counting coin values, adding coins together or making change — it is denomination identification only, naming which coin is which.

It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule, and it does not decide what a percent means for a student or when to move up a level. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number. It measures one thing: cards with the right coin name marked for the coin shown.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals running independent work stations or task box rotations with students working on coin identification and money-related life skills, case managers who need that practice to show up as data, and the families who get the practice page sent home.

More In The Collection

This is one set in the Task Box Collection; more sort, counting and identification boxes are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.