Greater or Less Than Number Sort Task Box

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 22 pages, 151 type-in fields

• 72 two-numeral cards across 3 levels (26 rounds: 12 rounds of 2 cards, 8 rounds of 3 cards, 6 rounds of 4 cards), every card two plain CSS digit tiles, left number then right number, sorted into a ">" bin or a "<" bin by which one is bigger
• Every card twice: accent-colored tiles for a laminated classroom box and black-on-white ink-saver tiles for the photocopier — plain printed numerals, no picture library either way
• A two-bin sort mat (color and ink-saver), ">" and "<", each with a plain-language subtitle ("the LEFT number is bigger" / "the LEFT number is smaller") and six card-sized slots
• An answer key listing every round by level, every card written out left number, symbol, right number
• A task box data sheet (16 rows: date, level, rounds given, cards correct, cards given, percent, help given, initials)
• A percent graph, 14 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 pairs and the two bins
• A phrase bank: spoken lines for running the box and written starters for the note afterward, in 6 groups
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

A task box built around comparing two numbers, not sorting one by an intrinsic property — the collection's odd/even box asks "what is this number," this one asks "which number is bigger," so the two comparison-based number-sense boxes sit side by side. The relation is never printed on the card, only on the mat's bin headers, so the child has to read both numerals every time.

Three Levels, Each Testing Something Different

• Level 1 — 12 rounds, 2 cards each. Numbers 1-10, every pair at least five apart, obviously bigger or smaller at a glance.
• Level 2 — 8 rounds, 3 cards each. The full 1-20 range, every pair two to four apart — close enough that a glance is not reliable, a quick count settles it.
• Level 3 — 6 rounds, 4 cards each, cut as a 2x2 block. Every pair is exactly one apart (for example 6 and 7, 13 and 12) — the closest comparison this range allows, so every card takes reading both numbers, never a glance.

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

NO PICTURES, ON PURPOSE — every numeral on every page is plain printed text, drawn the same way in both the color set and the ink-saver set. There is no picture library to run out of and no image to misread; the only thing a child reads is two numbers.

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 sort mat 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 placed in the correct bin.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals running independent work stations or task box rotations with students working on number comparison, 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 sequencing boxes are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.