Multiplication Facts to 5 Sort Task Box

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 22 pages, 150 type-in fields

• 12 multiplication fact cards across 3 levels (4 cards each), each card showing one rectangular DOT ARRAY (rows by columns) — never a picture, never an emoji digit — with a row of numeral choice tiles below it
• Every card twice: accent-colored dots for a laminated classroom box and black ink-saver dots for the photocopier — the same facts, the same choices, only the fill color changes
• 2 multiplication facts reference strips (color and ink-saver): the 12 facts this box trains, low product to high, each beside its own small dot array
• An answer key listing every card by level, the fact shown (rows times columns), and the numerals 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
• 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 a rectangular array model of multiplication — a child counts every dot in a grid of rows and columns, then marks the numeral that names the product. Factors 1 to 5, products 2 to 25. 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 Arrays And Distractors Change With Them

• Level 1 — 4 cards, the smallest arrays in the box (products 2 to 5), two numerals to choose from, the wrong numeral always far from the true product, so the first cards are nearly impossible to get wrong.
• Level 2 — 4 cards, larger arrays (products 8 to 12), three numerals to choose from. The wrong numerals are never adjacent to the product, so a child has to count the array rather than guess the number next to a familiar-looking one.
• Level 3 — 4 cards, the largest arrays in the box (products 15 to 25), four numerals to choose from. Every card carries at least one wrong numeral equal to what a child would get by miscounting one row or one column of the grid — the near-miss after losing track of the array, not a random wrong number.

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.

FACTORS 1 TO 5, PRODUCTS 2 TO 25. This box trains 12 specific multiplication facts using only factors 1 through 5, chosen so every dot array stays legible at task-card size (the largest card is a 5-by-5 grid, 25 dots). It is single-digit multiplication with small factors, meant as an early, concrete introduction to the array model. It does not cover factors above 5, division or multi-digit multiplication.

PLAIN DOTS, PLAIN NUMERALS, ON PURPOSE — every dot is a plain drawn circle and every choice a plain text tile, never an emoji or a keycap digit (those do not render consistently across readers). Nothing here depends on a picture library or a codepoint; the only thing being tested is the arithmetic.

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 cover division, multi-digit multiplication or factors above 5 — it is 12 chosen single-digit facts, array model only.

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 product marked.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals running independent work stations or task box rotations with students building early multiplication and array-model fluency, 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.