Number Sequence Sort Task Box

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 22 pages, 150 type-in fields

• 12 number sequence cards across 3 levels (4 cards each), every card a four-number run with one blank the child fills by working out the pattern
• 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
• 2 number strips (color and ink-saver), numerals 1 to 20 in order with the number word beside each one
• An answer key listing every run by level, its answer, and the numerals printed on the card
• A task box data sheet (16 rows: date, level, cards used, 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 cards and a short 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 one skill most sort-and-count sets skip: reading a run of numbers and working out what is missing, not just naming a picture. 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 Blank Moves With Them

• Level 1 — 4 cards, two numerals to choose from. The blank is always the LAST number in the run ("3, 4, 5, __"), and the wrong choice is always at least three away from the answer, so the first cards are nearly impossible to get wrong.
• Level 2 — 4 cards, three numerals to choose from. The blank is one of the two MIDDLE numbers ("2, __, 4, 5"), so the child has to read numbers on both sides of the gap, not just continue forward. Wrong choices stay at least two away from the answer.
• Level 3 — 4 cards, four numerals to choose from. The blank is the FIRST number in the run ("__, 4, 5, 6") — the child has to work out what comes before the numbers shown — and at least one wrong choice sits one or two away from the answer, the near-miss a child lands on after miscounting by a single step.

Moving up a level changes the blank's position and the number of choices at the same time, so a student cannot answer by card position alone. 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 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 a number.

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 number 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 missing number correctly marked.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals running independent work stations or task box rotations with students working on number sequencing, 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.