Next Dollar Up Money Task Box

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 22 pages, 150 type-in fields (verified: pypdf field count on the shipped PDF)

• 18 price cards across 3 levels, every card one plain CSS price tile, a fixed "Find the next dollar up" instruction printed on the card, and a row of whole-dollar choice tiles (every choice a flat dollar amount) the child marks
• Every card twice: accent-colored tiles for a laminated classroom box and black-on-white ink-saver tiles for the photocopier — plain printed prices, no picture library either way
• A dollar-line reference page (color and ink-saver): eight rows, one per whole dollar from 1.00 to 8.00, each showing the floor dollar and the one rule the whole box runs on — any amount over that dollar still rounds up to the dollar on the right
• An answer key listing every card by level, with its given price and its true next dollar up, the answer marked in bold
• 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 six of the same cards
• 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

Three Levels, Ramped By How Close The Price Sits To Its Dollar

Every card in this box rounds up — the given price never sits on a whole dollar, so there is always exactly one next dollar to find. The ramp is in how many cents the price sits past that dollar, not in direction.

• Level 1 — 6 cards, 2 choices. Prices 60 to 95 cents into the dollar (e.g. 2.80): visibly almost a dollar more. The wrong choice is the dollar the price just passed.
• Level 2 — 6 cards, 3 choices. Prices 20 to 55 cents into the dollar: a real judgment call — any amount over the dollar rounds up, not just the close ones. The dollar just below the answer, plus one more a dollar further down.
• Level 3 — 6 cards, 4 choices. Prices only 1 to 15 cents into the dollar (e.g. 4.05, 7.02) — the trap: it looks almost like a flat lower dollar, but it still needs a whole dollar more. Three decoy dollar amounts march down from the true answer at once — the hardest discrimination in the box.

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 PICTURES, ON PURPOSE — every price 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 a price. No price anywhere in this file is a real store's price.

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 dollar-line reference 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 correct next-dollar-up tile marked.

Who This Is For

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