Amplify announces release of new K–12 math curriculum

BROOKLYN, NY (August 21, 2024) – Amplify, a publisher of next-generation curriculum and assessment programs, today released Amplify Desmos Math, a new, curiosity-driven K–12 core math program that builds students’ lifelong math proficiency. The program’s lessons are standards-aligned, easy to use, and fully customizable by educators. Amplify Desmos Math expands on the Desmos Math 6–8 curriculum, which is featured in a recent efficacy study led by WestEd that demonstrates increased math achievement across more than 900 schools in nine states.

Every Amplify Desmos Math lesson includes suggestions for differentiation that support, strengthen, and stretch student understanding. The program combines the best problem-based lessons with tightly aligned personalized practice, assessments, and intervention, creating an integrated experience for teachers and students that includes:

Core instruction: Amplify Desmos Math lessons provide a structured approach to problem-based learning, where each lesson builds on students’ curiosity using a Proficiency Progression™ to develop lasting grade-level understanding for all students.
Screening and progress monitoring: mCLASS® assessments and 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.
Integrated personalized learning: Boost Personalized Learning activities help students access grade-level math through engaging, independent digital practice. The program’s signature Responsive Feedback™ adjusts to students’ work, providing item-level adaptivity to further support their learning.
Embedded intervention: Integrated resources like Mini-Lessons and math fluency games provide targeted intervention on specific concepts or skills connected to the daily lesson. Extensions are also available to stretch students’ understanding.

“Engagement is a real challenge in math classrooms,” said Jason Zimba, Amplify Chief Academic Officer of STEM. “Knowing this, we created a program with interesting problems that students are eager to solve, one that keeps them engaged and learning. Amplify Desmos Math achieves rigor and delight, motivating all students to explore new horizons and develop new understanding.”

To complement robust printed materials, Amplify Desmos Math leverages a digital platform that enables educators and students to connect with one another as they work through lessons, engage in personalized learning, and check for understanding. The interactive platform and facilitation tools foster mathematical discussions and allow educators to see student thinking in real time.

“Right now, teachers have to jump between platforms to access meaningful data, understand it, and use it,” said Alexandra Walsh, Amplify Chief Product Officer. “By combining instruction, assessment, and differentiation on the same digital platform, we’ve made student data more accessible, so educators can spend less time toggling and more time responding to student needs.”

Amplify Desmos Math is available:

Kindergarten–Algebra 1
- As a beta release for the 2024-2025 school year, for pilot implementations and early adoptions
- As a commercial release for the 2025-2026 school year
Geometry, Algebra 2, Integrated 1, Accelerated Grades 6 and 7
- As a beta release for the 2025-2026 school year
- As a commercial release for the 2026-2027 school year
Integrated 2 and 3
- As a commercial release for the 2026-2027 school year

In addition, hundreds of free math lessons and activities from Amplify Desmos Math are openly available on Desmos Classroom. Interested educators can not only teach the lessons, but also customize them, or even build their own from scratch. Educators can visit teacher.desmos.com to create a free account.

About Amplify
A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs and services provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 15 million students in all 50 states and on six continents. For more information, visit Amplify.com.

Media Contact: Kristine Frech; media@amplify.com

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Meet Amplify Desmos Math

Meet Amplify Desmos Math, a new, curiosity-driven K–12 math program that builds students’ lifelong math proficiency. Lessons in Amplify Desmos Math are standards-aligned, easy to use, and fully customizable by educators. And every Amplify Desmos Math lesson includes suggestions for differentiation that support, strengthen, and stretch student understanding.

“Engagement is a real challenge in math classrooms,” said Jason Zimba, Amplify Chief Academic Officer of STEM. “Knowing this, we created a program with interesting problems that students are eager to solve, one that keeps them engaged and learning. Amplify Desmos Math achieves rigor and delight, motivating all students to explore new horizons and develop new understanding.”

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. Read on to learn more.

Meet Amplify Desmos Math. This is math that motivates.

A structured approach to problem-based learning

The program combines the best problem-based lessons with tightly aligned personalized practice, assessments, and intervention, creating an integrated experience for teachers and students. Data informs instruction. Comprehensive student profiles provide full data on students’ assets and skills, empowering teachers to provide just-in-time scaffolds and targeted intervention when needed.

Amplify Desmos Math is a powerful suite of math resources that includes:

Core instruction: Amplify Desmos Math lessons provide a structured approach to problem-based learning, where each lesson builds on students’ curiosity using a Proficiency Progression™ to develop lasting grade-level understanding for all students.
Screening and progress monitoring: mCLASS^® assessments and 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.
Integrated personalized learning: Personalized Learning activities help students access grade-level math through engaging, independent digital practice. The program’s signature Responsive Feedback^™ adjusts to students’ work, providing item-level adaptivity to further support their learning.
Embedded intervention: Integrated resources like Mini-Lessons and math fluency games provide targeted intervention on specific concepts or skills connected to the daily lesson. Extensions are also available to stretch students’ understanding.

Amplify Desmos Math expands on the Desmos Math 6–8 curriculum, which is featured in a recent efficacy study led by WestEd that demonstrates increased math achievement across more than 900 schools in nine states.

Delightful digital activities and tools

To complement robust printed materials, Amplify Desmos Math leverages a digital platform that enables educators and students to connect with one another as they work through lessons, engage in personalized learning, and check for understanding. The interactive platform and facilitation tools foster mathematical discussions and allow educators to see student thinking in real time.

“Right now, teachers have to jump between platforms to access meaningful data, understand it, and use it,” said Alexandra Walsh, Amplify Chief Product Officer. “By combining instruction, assessment, and differentiation on the same digital platform, we’ve made student data more accessible, so educators can spend less time toggling and more time responding to student needs.”

Amplify Desmos Math is available:

Kindergarten–Algebra 1
- As a beta release for the 2024-2025 school year, for pilot implementations and early adoptions
- As a commercial release for the 2025-2026 school year
Geometry, Algebra 2, Integrated 1, Accelerated Grades 6 and 7
- As a beta release for the 2025-2026 school year
- As a commercial release for the 2026-2027 school year
Integrated 2 and 3
- As a commercial release for the 2026-2027 school year

Try a free lesson.

Hundreds of free math lessons and activities from Amplify Desmos Math are available on Desmos Classroom, 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.

You can teach these free lessons, but also customize them, or even build your own from scratch. Visit teacher.desmos.com to create a free account.

Learn more!

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Amplify Desmos Math receives an all-green rating from EdReports

BROOKLYN, NY (February 26, 2026) – Amplify, a publisher of next-generation curriculum and assessment programs, today announced that Amplify Desmos Math earned all-green scores from EdReports. This rating indicates that Amplify Desmos Math meets expectations across all gateways of EdReports’ new 2.0 Review Criteria for K–8 math curriculum, which were updated last year to reflect higher standards of educational excellence.

Amplify Desmos Math is a curiosity-driven math program that builds students’ lifelong math proficiency. Through a structured approach to problem-based learning and clear instructional guidance, teachers can cultivate collaborative classrooms where students learn to think and do math together in ways that lead to durable, grade-level understanding. Amplify Desmos Math expands on the Desmos Math 6–8 curriculum, which was featured in a 2023 efficacy study by WestEd that demonstrates increased math achievement across more than 900 schools in nine states. During the 2025–2026 school year, more than 23,000 teachers are using Amplify Desmos Math with more than 1,000,000 students.

“We’re thrilled to receive an all-green rating from EdReports for Amplify Desmos Math,” said Jason Zimba, Amplify’s chief academic officer of STEM. “We built the program to help teachers bring out student’s natural curiosity and enjoyment of math, while also ensuring rigor and automaticity. Grounded in research, this program enables teachers to cultivate classrooms with rich mathematical discussions where students develop genuine, enduring mathematical thinking and skills.”

Amplify Desmos Math is Amplify’s first product built on Amplify Classroom, Amplify’s digital ecosystem that simplifies how educators manage teaching and learning from start to finish. Amplify Classroom brings data from core curriculum, assessments, and supplemental programs into a single, accessible location, giving teachers a unified view of student progress so they can provide targeted support where it’s needed.

Amplify Desmos Math joins Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA), Amplify CKLA Skills, Amplify English Language Arts (ELA), and Amplify Science in earning all-green scores from EdReports, making it the fifth Amplify program to receive these ratings.

About Amplify

A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify delivers next-generation curriculum and assessment on an intuitive, integrated platform that includes thousands of free lessons. Our high-quality programs in ELA, math, and science engage students in rigorous learning that inspires them to think deeply, creatively, and independently. Our formative assessment tools help teachers identify the instruction each student needs to build a strong foundation in reading and math. Across all programs and services, we equip educators with powerful tools to understand and respond to the needs of every learner. Today, Amplify serves more than 18 million students and teachers across all 50 states and on 6 continents worldwide. For more information, visit Amplify.com.

Media Contact: Kristine Frech; media@amplify.com

New efficacy study finds Desmos Math 6-8 significantly improves student learning outcomes in middle grades

Brooklyn, NY (March 24, 2023) – A new study from WestEd, an education research nonprofit organization, found that schools using the Desmos Math curriculum for 6th, 7th, and/or 8th grade math instruction had significantly higher math achievement compared to similar schools that did not use Desmos Math. The Desmos Math 6–8 curriculum became part of the Amplify suite of high-quality instructional programs last spring, along with the Desmos Classroom teaching and learning platform. With a focus on helping teachers celebrate student brilliance, build flexible mathematical understanding and create the conditions for every student to be successful, the Desmos Math 6-8 lessons are standards-aligned, easy-to-use, and fully customizable by educators.

The WestEd retrospective study looked at data from the 2021-2022 school year and used a matched comparison design of almost 900 schools (~150 experimental sites and ~750 control sites) in nine focal states–California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, North Carolina and Texas. The study found that use of the Desmos Math 6-8 curriculum correlated with increased average math achievement. These results show that there is a positive effect with even a basic usage of Desmos Math 6-8 in increasing middle-grade-wide math achievement.

“We are thrilled with the results of this study, which validate the power of teachers putting student ideas at the center of instruction in order to build strong math proficiency,” said Dan Meyer, dean of research, Desmos Classroom, at Amplify. “We believe that all students – and teachers – deserve to experience engagement, challenge, and success in their math classrooms every day, and we are excited to build out a comprehensive K-12 curriculum to make that vision a reality in more and more classrooms.”

The schools in this study were from nine states with a concentration of Desmos Math 6-8 usage, and the schools used it with varying levels of fidelity. As such, the WestEd researchers believe the full impact of Desmos Math 6-8 may be higher than the effect reported in this study.

“The results are encouraging for educators in search of curricular materials designed to help students meet more rigorous math content standards,” says Kirk Walters, senior managing director, WestEd. “Most state standards and assessments emphasize conceptual understanding and application, which are key features of the Desmos Math Curriculum. Further research could determine the causal effects of the program, which may be even larger if the program is implemented under ideal conditions.”

About Amplify and Desmos Classroom
A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. In June 2022, Desmos split into two entities: “Desmos Studio,” a Public Benefit Corporation that builds and supports the Desmos Calculators, and “Desmos Classroom,” the team and technology behind Desmos Math 6-A1. Together Amplify and Desmos Classroom are building a comprehensive core math curriculum called Amplify Desmos Math that will build off of Desmos Math 6–A1 and be available for pilot and review in Fall 2024. Today, Amplify and Desmos Classroom serve more than 18 million students in all 50 states. For more information about Desmos Math 6-A1, visit amplify.com/desmosmath. For more information about the in-development Amplify Desmos Math, visit amplify.com/math.

About WestEd
WestEd is a nonpartisan, nonprofit agency that conducts and applies research, develops evidence-based solutions, and provides services and resources in the realms of education, human development, and related fields, with the end goal of improving outcomes and ensuring equity for individuals from infancy through adulthood. For more information, visit WestEd.org.

Contact: Kristine Frech; media@amplify.com