Counting 21-30 Picture Task Box

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 22 pages, 150 type-in fields

• 36 count cards across 3 levels (888 pictures to count): each card is a cluster of one object, its word, and a row of printed numeral boxes to circle, clip a clothespin on, or cover with a chip
• Every card twice: a full-color set for a laminated classroom box and a black-and-white ink-saver set for the photocopier
• 2 number strips (color and ink-saver): numerals 21 to 30, each beside that many pineapples, a visual anchor that never appears on a card — every row shows two full tens plus what is left over, so a number in the 20s reads as "two tens and some more"
• An answer key listing every card by level with its count and the numerals printed on it, plus the full object list
• A task box data sheet (16 rows: date, level, cards used, cards correct, cards given, percent, help given, initials)
• A percent graph 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 a short strip and six of the same cards
• 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

The third box in the store's Counting Picture Task Box collection: the same cards-plus-data shape as Counting 1-10 and Counting 11-20, moved up to the 20s, for a student who has the teens solid and needs the next range with a data sheet and graph already behind it.

The Three Levels

• Level 1 — 12 cards, counts 21 to 23, two numeral boxes. The wrong numeral is never next to the count, so the first cards are nearly impossible to get wrong.
• Level 2 — 12 cards, counts 23 to 26, three numeral boxes. The wrong ones are never closer than two away from the count, and the right box is first on four cards, middle on four and last on four, so a child who marks the same position every time gets some wrong and a child who counts gets them right.
• Level 3 — 12 cards, counts 25 to 30, four numeral boxes, and one of them is the numeral right next to the count — the box a child lands on after skipping a picture or counting one twice. Touching each picture while counting is the habit this level rewards.

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 and nobody at a shared table can see who has the two-box cards.

The Objects

• Level 1 (counts 21–23): ghosts, stars, rainbows, bears, boxes, envelopes, locks, medals, robots, rockets, anchors, shields
• Level 2 (counts 23–26): bags, batteries, ties, bones, bookmarks, bathtubs, teeth, caps, cameras, tents, magnets, headphones
• Level 3 (counts 25–30): pears, carrots, bees, turtles, cupcakes, umbrellas, pencils, crayons, tulips, snowflakes, chicks, cats — the same twelve objects the store's Counting 1-10 and Counting 11-20 boxes use at their own Level 3, kept fixed across the collection rather than re-invented for every range
• Number strip (never a card): pineapples

Every object is one discrete thing a young child names in one word; every codepoint used exists in both the color set and the black-and-white set. This box's pictures print smaller than its two siblings' (a 21-30 cluster has to fit up to 30 pictures in the same card width a 1-10 or 11-20 card uses) — the word bank was chosen for bold, simple, single-shape objects for that reason. Three display words were shortened after the first render overflowed the answer-key page by 48px (longer plural strings wrapped inside the key table and pushed the page over): the package picture prints as "boxes" (not "packages"), the school-satchel picture as "bags" (not "backpacks"), and the graduation-cap picture as "caps" (not "graduation caps") — same codepoints, same pictures, shorter printed words. Rendered and looked at, every page in both sets, at print size and at thumbnail size, this session.

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 cards themselves are a print task — the numeral boxes are printed squares a child circles, clips or covers, not type-in fields — and laminated cards take a dry-erase marker. The card pages and 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 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 numeral marked.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals running independent work stations or task box rotations with students moving past the teens, case managers who need that counting practice to show up as data, and the families who get the practice page sent home.

More In The Collection

The Task Box Collection also has the Counting 1-10 and Counting 11-20 Picture Task Boxes on the same shape, and ten sort boxes (food vs not food, big vs small, living vs not living, and more). New sets are added to the collection regularly.

Pictures (color pages): Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0. Pictures (ink-saver pages): Fluent Emoji, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.