Task Card Generator
Turn any list of questions, problems, or prompts into printable cut-apart task cards — with a student recording sheet and an answer key, laid out and numbered for you.
Task cards beat a worksheet when a student needs to move, work at their own pace, or stop staring at thirty problems at once. The catch has always been the twenty minutes of table-wrangling it takes to make them. Paste your list, pick a layout, and print. Answers can sit small on the front, go on the back for double-sided printing, or stay on a separate key.
How to get a clean print — and how to actually use task cards
- Printing. Use the Print button, choose portrait, and set margins to Default. Turn on background graphics if your card numbers come out as empty circles — that setting is what prints the navy fill.
- Answers on the back. Pick that option and print double-sided, flipping on the long edge. Each back page is already mirrored left-to-right, so every answer lands behind its own question instead of the one next to it. Print one test sheet before you run the whole set.
- Card stock and lamination. Cardstock survives a school year; plain paper survives a session. If you laminate, students can work the cards with a dry-erase marker and you never reprint.
- Scoot. Tape the cards around the room in order, give each student the recording sheet, and start them at different numbers. Everyone moves one card on your signal. It turns a problem set into eight minutes of movement.
- Write the answer after a
|.3x + 5 = 20 | x = 5becomes a card with the question and an answer you can hide, show, or print on the back. Lines with no|just make a question-only card, which is what you want for discussion prompts and writing starters. - They are not only for math. Vocabulary words, text-evidence prompts, conversation starters in a world language, lab-safety scenarios, "explain this error" cards — anything you would otherwise read aloud one at a time.
- The recording sheet is the assessment. Cards without one leave you no record of what a student actually did. The sheet numbers itself to match the cards, so you can grade it against the key in a minute.
- Shuffle when you want two students working the same set without reading over each other. The order is repeatable, so reprinting gives you the same set until you press Reshuffle.
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