# Complete text and tactile routes for four A4 aids

The [SVG/PDF files](generate_print.py) are original layouts. These ordered routes contain every **instructional field and caution**; colour, sound, fine motor marking and visual shape recognition are never necessary for the reasoning target. A learner may answer in Braille, print, AAC, sign, dictated words, typed text or movable labelled cards. Offer stable high-contrast print or large text as appropriate and check with the learner rather than claiming universal accessibility. Blank lines on a PDF are response spaces, not secret content. Never infer independent reading from a read-aloud alone.

## Source-claim mat · Days 11–20

Title: **Read the claim; keep the condition.** Intro: “A public sentence is made by someone, for someone, from selected facts.” Four boxes in reading order:

1. **Text / maker / audience.** Say the maker and intended audience. Copy or reproduce one exact word or phrase that positions a reader.
2. **Desk note / model.** State the unit, base, period or whole-set rule before calculating.
3. **What the numbers support.** Name the group, quantity and known comparison. Put the arithmetic next to the group it describes.
4. **Revise and keep unknown visible.** Finish “For this group and model, I can say …”. Name a still-unknown term or next source needed.

Footer caution: **Do not turn an invented price or one case into a universal promise.**

**Tactile route:** Four numbered, separately textured or raised-edge cards can be arranged left to right. Put a word card for “exact phrase” on card 1, unit/base/period tokens on card 2, quantities on card 3, and an UNKNOWN token on card 4. Texture has no meaning unless a spoken/Braille number label accompanies it. The learner directs the order and states the revision.

## Rate-base mat · Days 11, 13 and 16

Title: **Compare like quantities.** Intro: “For a whole pack, count packs before multiplying the price.” Four ordered areas:

1. **The need.** Record quantity and unit. Choose YES, NO or UNKNOWN for whether part of a pack can be bought.
2. **Two stated rules.** For A and B separately write `fixed + (per unit × quantity)` **or** `whole packs × set price` as the source requires. Do not combine incompatible units.
3. **Matched totals.** Record A total, B total and the known gap for the **same** needed quantity.
4. **Condition and missing term.** Say “only at this quantity”; place delivery or quality in UNKNOWN if the source does not supply it.

**Tactile route:** Put a labelled NEED quantity card first, two vertical A/B rule rows next, paired TOTAL cards after them, and an UNKNOWN card last. For whole packs, use complete labelled rectangles; a part-card may stand for needed use but must not be counted as a purchasable fraction unless the source permits it.

## Budget-window mat · Days 14 and 19

Title: **What is actually available?** Intro: “Separate an allocation from committed, proposed and unknown amounts.” Four ordered areas:

1. **Window / income.** State one week, four-week what-if or other explicit period, then the allocation for that period.
2. **Categories.** Name FIXED or already committed; DISCRETIONARY or proposed; and UNKNOWN, which is **not `$0`**.
3. **Remainder.** Calculate `allocation − stated commitments − chosen proposal`, with currency unit.
4. **Repeat only if assumptions hold.** Name the period and what needs a fresh quote or recheck before any future claim.

**Tactile route:** Four ordered cards WINDOW, CATEGORIES, REMAINDER, RECHECK. Within CATEGORIES use three independently labelled pockets FIXED, PROPOSED and UNKNOWN. An empty UNKNOWN pocket does not mean zero; place a tactile question-mark token there. Duplicate the full one-week stack four times only for the source's unchanged four-week what-if.

## Percent-period mat · Days 15, 18 and 20

Title: **Name the base. Name the period.** Intro: “Percentages change a stated base; time must match the rate.” Four ordered areas:

1. **First base and operation.** Record the dollar base or starting amount and the exact percentage. Mark increase, decrease, GST addition or simple-interest model.
2. **New base or time period.** After a first percentage change, write the **new** amount before applying another percentage. For interest, match annual rate with years; for GST, state that the supply is **assumed fully taxable** and whether the price is exclusive or inclusive.
3. **Result with units.** Simple interest reminder: `principal × annual decimal rate × years`. Fully taxable GST model reminder: `10% of exclusive price`. Write a dollar result and distinguish interest or tax amount from total.
4. **Claim boundary.** State what was assumed and what was not modelled before editing the public sentence.

Footer caution: **A rate for a year is not a rate for a month.**

**Tactile route:** Use four numbered cards and distinct labelled BASE 1 and BASE 2 tokens; never identify them by texture alone. Lay rate and period tokens next to their exact base. A second percentage starts only after the learner replaces BASE 1 with BASE 2. Keep ASSUMED FULLY TAXABLE and UNKNOWN as spoken/Braille labels when using GST.

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