True or False Equations Sort Task Box

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 22 pages, 151 type-in fields (verified: pypdf field count on the shipped PDF)

• 72 equation cards across 3 levels (26 rounds: 12 rounds of 2 cards, 8 rounds of 3 cards, 6 rounds of 4 cards), every card a plain printed equation sorted into a TRUE bin or a FALSE bin
• Every card twice: accent-colored tiles for a laminated classroom box and black-on-white ink-saver tiles for the photocopier — plain printed text, no picture library either way
• A two-bin sort mat (color and ink-saver), TRUE and FALSE, six card-sized slots in each bin
• An answer key listing every round by level, its true equations and its false equations
• A task box data sheet (16 rows: date, level, rounds given, 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 the two bins
• 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

A task box built around checking a math fact, not solving one: every card states a complete addition or subtraction equation within 20, and the student decides whether the printed answer is correct. It comes with the same data sheet, graph and phrase bank as the rest of the Task Box Collection, so independent work turns into a line on a page a case manager can bring to a meeting.

Three Levels, Each Testing Something Different

• Level 1 — 12 rounds, 2 cards each (one true, one false). A false equation here is off by three or more — the kind of mistake you would catch at a glance checking a classmate's math-fact worksheet.
• Level 2 — 8 rounds, 3 cards each, the true/false split varies round to round. A false equation is off by exactly two, so a glance is not reliable and the child has to actually solve it.
• Level 3 — 6 rounds, 4 cards each, cut as a 2x2 block. A false equation is off by exactly one — the near-miss that looks right at a glance, the classic trap in a true-or-false flashcard game — mixed with true equations from the same number range, so a child cannot tell them apart without computing.

Nothing on a card says true or false except its own arithmetic; nothing 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 equation 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 an equation.

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 sort mat 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 placed in the correct bin.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals running independent work stations or task box rotations with students working on addition and subtraction fact 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 number-sense boxes are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.