Skip Counting by 2s 5s and 10s Task Box

About this resource

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

• 18 skip-counting cards across 3 levels (6 cards each), every card a four-number run with one blank the child fills by working out the missing number — plain printed numerals, no pictures
• Level 1 counts by 10s (10 to 100), Level 2 counts by 5s (5 to 100), Level 3 counts by 2s (2 to 40) — three separate skip-counting families, not one mixed number line
• Every card twice: accent-colored tiles for a laminated classroom box and black-on-white ink-saver tiles for the photocopier
• A skip-counting reference page (color and ink-saver), showing the full count for all three levels — by 10s, by 5s, by 2s — in order
• An answer key listing every run by level, its answer, and the numbers 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 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 the three skip counts that come up again and again in a primary classroom — tens, fives and twos — asked the same way every sort-and-sequence set in this collection asks: read the run, work out what is missing, mark one choice. 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 — 6 cards, counting by 10s (10 to 100), two numbers to choose from. The blank is always the LAST number in the run ("10, 20, 30, __"), and the wrong choice is always at least three tens away from the answer, so the first cards are nearly impossible to get wrong.
• Level 2 — 6 cards, counting by 5s (5 to 100), three numbers to choose from. The blank is one of the two MIDDLE numbers, so the child has to read the number on each side of the gap, not just continue the count forward. Every number offered is still a multiple of five, and the wrong ones are never the number right before or after.
• Level 3 — 6 cards, counting by 2s (2 to 40), four numbers to choose from. The blank is the FIRST number in the run ("__, 12, 14, 16") — the child has to work out what number came before the numbers shown — and one wrong choice is a near-miss: the number right after the blank, already printed on the card.

Moving up a level changes the blank's position, the step 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 tile on every page is a plain printed numeral, 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 reference page 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 skip counting by 2s, 5s or 10s, 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.