Meet Amplify Desmos Math
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Amplify Desmos Math is a new, curiosity-driven K–12 program that builds students’ lifelong math proficiency that’s proven effective. Click a grade span to learn about the program design, print and digital features, and supports available.
A powerful suite
of math resources
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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.
Screening and Progress Monitoring
mCLASS® Assessments, along with daily formative checks, measure what students know and how they think. The asset-based assessment system provides teachers with targeted, actionable insights, linked to core instruction and intervention resources.
Core Instruction
Amplify Desmos Math lessons provide a structured approach to problem-based learning, helping teachers create a collaborative math community with students at its center. Each lesson systematically builds on students’ curiosity to develop lasting grade-level understandings for all students.
Integrated Personalized Learning
Boost Personalized Learning activities help students access grade-level math through engaging, independent digital practice. Responsive Feedback adjusts to students’ work, providing item-level adaptivity to further support their learning.
Embedded Intervention
Integrated resources like Mini-Lessons, Math Fluency, Math Adventures, and Extensions provide targeted intervention on a specific concept or skill. This intervention is directly connected to daily content and offer students the individualized supports they need.
A structured approach to problem-based learning
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Amplify Desmos Math thoughtfully combines conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application. Each lesson is designed to tell a story by posing problems that invite a variety of approaches before guiding students to synthesize their understanding of the learning goals.
Proficiency Progression
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Lessons and units in Amplify Desmos Math are designed around what we call a Proficiency Progression, a model that steps out problem-based learning by systematically building students’ curiosity into lasting grade-level understanding for all.
In the Proficiency Progression, lessons begin by activating students’ natural curiosity and offering opportunities to generate new ideas through collaboration. Teachers are then able to refine ideas through intentional facilitation and guide students to grade-level understanding, while students retain the ability to use different strategies and methods to show their comprehension of the content. Students are provided ample opportunities to develop lasting understanding.
Routines
Using instructional routines regularly creates consistency in the classroom, freeing up time for teachers so that they can attend to student thinking and communicate what is important in the class. Instead of focusing on the directions of an activity, students can focus on making sense of and communicating about the math.
Each instructional routine included in an Amplify Desmos Math lesson creates opportunities for conversations and supports meaningful discussion. Implementing these routines can be a practical tool for establishing a classroom learning community that values student thinking.
Lesson design
Amplify Desmos Math is designed with a structured approach to problem-based learning that systematically builds on students’ curiosity. Students are first invited to explore problems that create an intellectual need for new mathematical ideas. Then the teacher builds on strategies used by students and connects their ideas to the learning goals of the lesson. Every lesson activity is organized into a Launch, Monitor, Connect format, enabling teachers to set students up for success with each task.
Professional development
Unit-level professional development
The Unit Overview for each unit includes a Professional Development page, which lists opportunities for teachers to deepen their understanding of the math in the unit and how to teach it.
Lesson-level professional development
Each Amplify Desmos Math lesson provides a moment of professional learning as an opportunity for teachers to reflect on how well the lesson went. These professional learning moments can relate to principles, instruction, pedagogy, or program content.
Proven effective
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Amplify Desmos Math expands on the approach of the Desmos Math 6–A1 curriculum, which is highly-rated by EdReports and was recently proven to increase average math achievement in a study of more than 900 schools in nine states led by WestEd.