A new, curiosity-driven K–12 program that builds students’ lifelong math proficiency
Meet Amplify Desmos Math. Our structured approach to problem-based learning systematically builds on students’ curiosity to develop lasting grade-level understanding.
Math that motivates
Picture a classroom where students are so eagerly engaged in a lesson, they wish it wouldn’t end. The room is buzzing with the sounds of natural curiosity. This is what an Amplify Desmos Math classroom looks and sounds like. This is math that motivates.
A structured approach to problem-based learning
Amplify Desmos Math combines and connects conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application. Lessons are designed with the Proficiency Progression™, a model that provides teachers with clear instructional moves to build from students’ prior knowledge to grade-level learning.
A powerful suite of math resources
Amplify Desmos Math combines the best of problem-based lessons, intervention, personalized practice, and assessments into a coherent and engaging experience for both students and teachers.
Data informs instruction. Comprehensive student profiles provide full data on students’ assets and skills, empowering teachers to provide just-in-time scaffolds throughout core instruction and targeted intervention when needed.
Student thinking is valuable and can be made evident.
We believe that math class is a place where teachers can elicit, celebrate, and build on their students’ interesting ideas. Those ideas fuel meaningful classroom conversations and drive the learning process.
Robust assessments that drive learning and inform instruction
A variety of performance data in Amplify Desmos Math provides evidence of student learning, while helping students bolster their skills. With explicit guidance on what to look for and how to respond, teachers can effectively support students as they develop their understanding.
Diagnostic screening and progress monitoring assessments identify what students know and can do.
Integrated mCLASS® Assessments go beyond accuracy to reveal students’ math thinking through an asset-based approach. This data provides better insights about what students know, what math assets to leverage, and where students need support.
Reporting and insights
Teachers and administrators have visibility into what students know about grade-level math with a variety of data reports. By evaluating not only what students know about grade-level math but also providing insight into how they think, teachers can confidently plan whole-class instruction and targeted intervention.
Access to grade-level math for every student, every day
Amplify Desmos Math provides teachers with lessons, strategies, and resources to eliminate barriers and increase access to grade-level content without reducing the mathematical demand of tasks.
Differentiation when and where it matters most
Teachers are provided with clear student actions to look for, matched with immediately usable suggestions for how to respond to student thinking. Each lesson also includes recommendations for resources to use with students to support, strengthen, and stretch their understanding of the lesson goal.
Boost Personalized Learning
Boost Personalized Learning™ activities in Amplify Desmos Math target a skill or concept aligned to the day’s core lesson, with each student receiving personalized scaffolds based on what they already know. Activities adapt to each student’s unique needs.
Intervention Mini-Lessons aligned to core instruction
Amplify Desmos Math Mini-Lessons are aligned to the most critical topics throughout a unit and provide targeted intervention for small groups of students who need additional support or need more time.
What’s included
The program integrates print and digital resources, as well as manipulatives in grades K–5, to help students learn and make sense of mathematical ideas, reason mathematically, and communicate their mathematical thinking.
For students
- Student Edition (two-volume)
- Digital access to lesson resources and practice
- Interactive Student Activity Screens
- Responsive Feedback™
- Collaboration tools
- Boost™ Personalized Learning
- Hands-on manipulative kits
For teachers
- Teacher Edition (two-volume)
- Digital access to planning and instruction resources
- Presentation Screens
- Facilitation and progress monitoring tools
- Assessment and reporting suite, featuring mCLASS Assessments (grades K–8)
- Assessment Resources
- Center Resources (grades K–5)
- Intervention and Extension Resources (grades K–8)
Visual and dynamic interactions pique student interest and invite all students to engage in the mathematics.
- Engaging interactions
- Social, collaborative experiences
- Teacher Dashboard
- Teacher Presentation Screens
- Digital facilitation tools
- A powerful conversation toolkit
Desmos Classroom
Desmos Classroom is a free teaching and learning platform that places student engagement at the center of instruction.
Desmos Classroom features free lessons, lesson-building tools, sharing features, and more. Built by math educators, the platform makes leaning into good pedagogy easier for teachers—which makes the lesson a more interactive experience for students.
Create your teacher account on teacher.desmos.com.