Ordinal Numbers 1st-10th Task Box

About this resource

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

• 18 ordinal-position cards across 3 levels, every card a plain CSS row of circles with one marked, a fixed instruction naming which end to count from ("Count from the left" / "Count from the right"), and a row of ordinal-word choice tiles ("1st" through "10th," the numeral-suffix form) 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 shapes and printed words, no picture library either way
• An ordinal-line reference page (color and ink-saver): ten positions, each showing its numeral over its ordinal word, with a note that the line never changes and only the counting direction does
• An answer key listing every card by level, with its row length, the end it is counted from, and its choices, 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 Where The Mark Sits And Which End Is Named

• Level 1 — 6 cards, 2 choices. The mark sits at one end of a short row, always counted from the left: an easy call. The wrong choice is the opposite end of the same row, a clear reach.
• Level 2 — 6 cards, 3 choices. The mark sits inside the row, still always counted from the left: a real judgment call, since every item between has to be counted, not skimmed. The two decoys are the positions right next to the answer.
• Level 3 — 6 cards, 4 choices. The mark sits inside a longer row (8-10 items), and the card can name either end to count from — 3 cards from the left, 3 from the right. One decoy is the classic direction mistake: the word a child lands on by counting from the wrong end. The other two decoys are the neighboring positions.

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. The counting direction is always printed on the card itself, never left for a child to guess.

NO PICTURES, ON PURPOSE — every row is plain CSS circles and every choice 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 things a child reads are a row and a word.

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 ordinal-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 ordinal word marked.

Who This Is For

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