Customer Privacy Policy
Last Modified: January 23, 2026 | Update History
Most recent update: This Privacy Policy has been updated to address additional rights for individuals in the European Union/UK.
We advise you to read this Privacy Policy in its entirety, including the jurisdiction-specific provisions in the appendix. Click here to review Our U.S. Notice At Collection.
Customer Privacy Policy: K–12 Schools
Who We Are
Amplify Education, Inc. (“Amplify”) is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Amplify’s programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of each student and use data in a way that is safe, secure, and effective.
Our Products and Services
Amplify’s products support classroom instruction and learning and include Amplify CKLA, Amplify ELA, Amplify Caminos, Amplify Science, Amplify Desmos Math, Boost Reading, Boost Math, mCLASS, Mathigon, associated professional development and tutoring services, and services at classroom.amplify.com (for creating and assigning activities) and student.amplify.com (for use of the activities or curricula as directed by an instructor), and any other product or service that links to this Privacy Policy (together, the “Products”).
Our Approach to Student Data Privacy
In the course of providing the Products to Schools and their Authorized School Users, Amplify collects, receives, generates, or has access to Student Data (defined below). We consider Student Data to be confidential and we collect and use Student Data solely for educational purposes in connection with providing our Products to, or on behalf of the School as described in this Privacy Policy and our Agreements (defined below). We work to maintain the security and confidentiality of Student Data that we collect or store, and we enable Schools to control the use, access, sharing, and retention of Student Data.
Our Products are geared towards K–12 students (“Students”), and the educators, agents and staff members who use the Products as authorized by their School (“Educators”). Information that directly relates to an identifiable Student (“Student Data”) is owned and controlled by the School, and Amplify receives Student Data as a “school official” under Section 99.31 of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (“FERPA”) for the purpose of providing the Products hereunder. In addition, we rely on the School acknowledging that it is acting as the parent’s agent and consenting on the parent’s behalf to process personal information of Students under the age of 13 (“Child Users”) in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”).
Our collection and use of Student Data is governed by our Agreements with Schools, including this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”), and applicable laws which may include FERPA, COPPA, the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (“PPRA”), as well as other applicable federal, state, and local privacy laws and regulations (“Applicable Laws”). As noted above, with respect to FERPA, Amplify receives Student Data as a “school official” under Section 99.31 of FERPA for the purpose of providing its Products, and such Student Data is owned and controlled by the School.
Schools may provide authorization in two ways:
- by the School agreeing to our Customer Terms and Conditions located at amplify.com/customer-terms or another written agreement between Amplify and the School, as applicable; or
- by an Educator agreeing to the Acceptable Use Policy located at amplify.com/acceptable-use-policy/ (“AUP”) on behalf of the School as outlined in the AUP.
In each case, we collect Student Data and provide these Products solely for the use and benefit of the School and for no other commercial purpose. We require all Schools to review this Privacy Policy, available at amplify.com/customer-privacy, and to make a copy of the Privacy Policy available to the parents or guardians of Child Users.
We also provide limited opportunities for individual users to sign up for an account for use of our Products at-home or otherwise outside of the authorization of a School (“Home Users”). See the Appendix–Supplemental Disclosures for additional information that applies to our Home Users.
What This Privacy Policy Covers
This Customer Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how Amplify collects, uses, and discloses personal information through the provision of Products.
For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “you” and “your” means Authorized Users (defined below).
This Privacy Policy does not apply to Amplify’s handling of:
- information collected from users of Amplify’s company website, which is governed by our Website Privacy Policy.
- job applicant data that we process in accordance with our applicant privacy notice.
There may be different contractual terms or privacy policies in place with some Schools. Such other terms or policies supersede this Privacy Policy for information collected or released under those terms. If you have any questions as to which legal agreement or privacy policy controls the collection and use of your personal information, please contact us using the information provided below. Unless expressly superseded, this Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the Agreement that governs your use of the Products.
Our Role
Amplify as a processor/service provider: Our School customers are the controllers of Student Data (as well as certain other Educator personal information to the extent required by law or Amplify’s agreement with the School) (together “School Data”).
Amplify acts as a processor/service provider for our School customers with respect to School Data, which means when we use School Data, we do so solely on the instruction of the School. School Data is subject to the School’s privacy policies; therefore, you will need to contact the School directly if you have any questions or would like to exercise your rights with respect to School Data.
Amplify as a controller: We are the controller of all other personal information we collect from non-Student Authorized Users (“Amplify Data”) and can be reached by email at privacy@amplify.com or by mail at Amplify Education, Inc., 55 Washington St.#800, Brooklyn, NY, 11201.
Policy
1. Definitions
Capitalized terms not defined in this section or elsewhere in this Privacy Policy will have the meaning set forth by Applicable Laws.
“Agreement” means the underlying contractual agreement between Amplify and the School.
“Authorized Users” means all users of our Products, including Authorized School Users, parents and legal guardians, and Home Users.
“Authorized School Users” means Students and Educators.
“Local Education Authority” means a local education agency or authority, school district, school network, independent school, or other regional education system.
“Non-Student Data” means information that is linked or linkable to Authorized Users who are not Students.
“School” means the Local Education Authority or State Agency.
“State Agency” means the educational agency primarily responsible for the supervision of public elementary and secondary schools in any of the 50 states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, or other territories and possessions of the United States, as well as a national or regional ministry or department of education in other countries, as applicable.
2. What personal information do we collect?
When you access or use our Products, you may choose to provide us with personal information, including Student Data. This information may be provided to us directly (e.g. when an account is created or through communications with us) or through your interactions with our Products.
Student Data. Below is a list of the categories of Student Data that may be collected by Amplify or its Products, either directly or through the Authorized School User’s use of the various features and configurations of the Products:
- Identifier and Enrollment Data, such as name, email, school / state ID number, username and password, grade level, homeroom, courses, teacher names.
- Why? Most of Amplify’s Products require some basic information about who is in a classroom and who teaches the class—Student or teacher Identifier and Enrollment data. This information is provided to Amplify by the School, either directly from the School’s student information system or via a third party with whom the School contracts to provide that information.
- Demographic Data, such as date of birth, socioeconomic status, race, national origin, and preferred or primary language.
- Why? To support school instructional and reporting requirements, Amplify’s Products allow Schools to view reports and analyze data using Demographic Data. Generally, Demographic Data is provided on a voluntary basis by the School. For example, a School may wish to analyze Student literacy assessment results based on English Language Learner status to better tailor classroom instruction, and in that case, the School may provide Demographic Data to enable that reporting.
- School Records, such as grades, attendance, assessment results, and whether an Individualized Education Plan (IEP or local equivalent) is in place.
- Why? Some of our Products support grading assignments and administering formative, diagnostic, and curriculum-based assessments. Teachers use that information to support Students’ progress in the program or help with instructional decisions. We do not collect specific details from an IEP, nor do we collect protected health information or other sensitive information.
- Schoolwork and Student Generated Content, which includes any information contained in Student assignments and assessments, including information in response to instructional activities and participation in collaborative or interactive features of our Products, such as Student responses to academic questions and Student-written essays, as well as images, video, and audio recordings.
- Why? As part of the digital learning experience, some of our Products may enable Students to write text and create and upload images, video, and audio recordings. For example, in Amplify ELA, students may write essays or submit short-form responses in our platform as part of a lesson on literature. As another example, in Boost Reading, student interactions with reading skills games are recorded to keep track of the student’s progress to level up in the program and to provide visibility to teachers on how students are mastering the skills.
- Teacher Comments and Feedback, such as scores, written comments, or other feedback that Educators may provide about Student responses or student course performance.
- Why? To enable teachers to track the performance and provide feedback to their students.
- Non-Student Data. We may collect the following types of personal information from all other Authorized Users:
- Contact Information, such as name and email address, as well as grade level taught, school name and school location, whether you are an Educator or Home User that creates an account or uses our Products or communicates with us.
- Account Information, such as user login and password, for account creation and access purposes.
- Survey Responses, which you provide in response to surveys or questionnaires.
- Device and Usage Data. Depending on the Product, we may collect certain information about the device used to connect to our Product, such as device type and model, browser configurations, and persistent identifiers, such as IP addresses and unique device identifiers. We may collect device diagnostic information, such as battery level, usage logs, and error logs, as well as usage, viewing, and technical information (e.g., email open rates), such as the number of requests a device makes, to ensure proper system capacity for all Authorized Users. We may collect IP addresses and use that information to approximate device location to support operation of the Product. To the extent that we collect this information, this data is solely used to support operation of the Product and is not linked to Student Data. For purposes of clarity, Amplify does not use Student Data for marketing or advertising purposes (see section 6 of this Privacy Policy for more information about our commitments regarding Student Data).
- Why? We use this information to remember returning users and facilitate ease of login, to customize the function and appearance of the Products, and to improve the learning experience. This information also helps us track product usage for various purposes, including website optimization, to ensure proper system capacity, troubleshoot and fix errors, provide technical assistance and customer support, provide and monitor the effectiveness of our Products, monitor and address security concerns, and compile analytics for product improvement and other internal purposes.
- How? Cookies and Similar Technologies. We collect device and usage data through “cookies,” Web beacons, HTML5 local storage, and other similar technologies, which are used in some of our Products solely to support operation of the Products as described above. While we may use third party cookies and similar technologies for advertising and marketing purposes on our website (in accordance with our Website Privacy Policy), we do not permit such tracking technologies to be present on Student-facing portions of the Products. In particular, we only use the following types of cookies in our Products:
- Strictly necessary cookies – These are cookies that are required for the operation of our websites and applications that host our Products. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Products. These cookies are not generally stored beyond the browser session and are less likely to include personal information. This category of cookies cannot be disabled.
- Functionality Cookies – We use these cookies so that we recognize you on the websites and apps that host our Products and remember your previously selected preferences. These cookies are stored on your device between browsing sessions but expire after a pre-defined period. These cookies enable us to “recognize” you when you use our Products, including your preferences such as your preferred language, time, and location. A mix of first party (placed by us) and third-party cookies (placed by third parties) are used.
- Performance Cookies – These cookies help us and service providers acting on our behalf compile statistics and analytics about users of our Products that are accessed via websites and apps, including Device and Usage Information.
- Learn how to opt out of cookies and similar technologies by reading the “What Rights and Choices Do You Have?” section of this Privacy Policy below.
3. How do we use personal information?
Student Data. Amplify uses Student Data for educational purposes, to provide the Products, and to ensure secure and effective operation of our Products, including:
- to provide and improve our educational Products;
- to support School and Authorized School Users’ activities;
- to ensure secure and effective operation of our Products;
- for purposes requested or authorized by the School or Authorized School User or as otherwise permitted by Applicable Laws;
- for customer support purposes, to respond to the inquiries and fulfill the requests of the School and their Authorized School Users;
- to enforce Product access and security controls; and
- to conduct system audits and improve protections against the misuse of our Products, or to detect and prevent fraud and other harmful activities.
- to enable the adaptive and personalized learning features of the Products.
Non-Student Data. Amplify may use Non-Student Data for the purposes for which Student Data is used as set forth above. In addition, Amplify may use Non-Student Data to provide customized content, advertising and marketing in limited circumstances (e.g. to periodically send newsletters and other promotional materials) directed to Educators and Home Users. For sake of clarity, we do not use Student Data for marketing purposes and we do not direct marketing to Students. Amplify may also use Non-Student Data for internal research and analytics, including generating insights on the use of our Products by Educators in certain Schools so that we can better serve those communities. We will also use Non-Student Data as otherwise required or permitted by law, or as we may notify you at the time of collection. Learn how to opt out of these communications by reading the “What Rights and Choices Do You Have?” section of this Privacy Policy below.
Amplify may use aggregate or de-identified data as described in the Aggregate/De-identified Data section below.
4. To whom do we disclose personal information?
Student Data. We disclose Student Data to third parties only as needed to provide the Products under the Agreement, as directed or permitted by the School or Authorized School User, and as required by law. Such disclosures may include but are not limited to the following:
- to other Authorized School Users of the School entitled to access such data in connection with the Products;
- to our service providers, subprocessors, or vendors who have a legitimate need to access such data in order to assist us in providing or supporting our Products, such as platform, infrastructure, and application software. We contractually bind such parties to protect Student Data in a manner consistent with those practices set forth in this Privacy Policy and in accordance with Applicable Laws. A list of Amplify subprocessors is available at https://www.amplify.com/subprocessors;
- to comply with the law, respond to requests in legal or government enforcement proceedings (such as complying with a subpoena), protect our rights in a legal dispute, or seek assistance of law enforcement in the event of a threat to our rights, security, or property or that of our affiliates, customers, Authorized Users, or others;
- in the event Amplify or all or part of its assets are acquired or transferred to another party, including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings, provided that successor entity will be required to comply with the privacy protections in this Privacy Policy with respect to information collected under this Privacy Policy, or we will provide the School with notice and an opportunity to opt out of the transfer of such data prior to the transfer; and
- except as restricted by Applicable Laws or contracts with the School, we may also share Student Data with Amplify’s affiliated education companies, provided that such disclosure is solely for the purposes of providing Products and at all times is subject to this Policy.
Non-Student Data. Amplify discloses Non-Student Data for the purposes for which Student Data is used as set forth above. Amplify may also disclose Non-Student Data as otherwise required or permitted, or as disclosed at the time of collection. Please note that we do not share mobile information or opt-in consent with third parties / affiliates for their own marketing or promotional purposes.
5. Aggregate/De-identified data
Amplify may use de-identified or aggregate data for purposes allowed under FERPA and other Applicable Laws, to research, develop, and improve educational sites, services, and applications and to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Amplify Products. Amplify will not attempt to re-identify de-identified data. We may use aggregate information (which is information that has been collected in summary form such that the data cannot be associated with any individual) for analytics and reports. For example, our promotional materials may note the total number of students served by our programs in the prior year, but that information cannot be used to identify any one student. We may also share de-identified or aggregate data with research partners to help us analyze the information for product improvement and development purposes.
Records and information are de-identified when all personal information has been removed or obscured, such that the remaining information does not reasonably identify a specific individual. We de-identify Student Data in compliance with Applicable Laws and in accordance with the guidelines of NIST SP 800-122. Amplify has implemented internal procedures and controls to protect against the re-identification of de-identified Student Data. Amplify does not disclose de-identified data to its research partners unless that party has agreed in writing not to attempt to re-identify such data.
6. Data prohibitions, Advertising, Advertising limitations
Amplify will not:
- sell Student Data to third parties;
- use or disclose Student Data to inform, influence, or enable targeted advertising to a Student based on Student Data or information or data inferred over time from the Student’s usage of the Products;
- use Student Data to develop a profile of a Student for any purpose other than providing the Products to a School or Authorized School User, or as authorized by a parent or legal guardian;
- use Student Data for any commercial purpose other than to provide the Products to the School or Authorized School User, or as permitted by Applicable Laws.
7. External third-party services
This Privacy Policy applies solely to Amplify’s Products and practices. Schools and other Authorized Users may choose to connect or use our Products in conjunction with third-party services and Products. Additionally, our sites and Products may contain links to third-party websites or services . This Privacy Policy does not address, and Amplify is not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of such third parties. Schools should carefully consider which third-party applications to include among the Products and services they provide to Students and vet the privacy and data security standards of those providers.
Authorized Users may be able to log in to our Products using third-party sign-in services such as Clever, ClassLink or Google. These services authenticate your identity and provide you with the option to share certain personal information with us, including your name and email address, to pre-populate our account sign-up form. If you choose to enable a third party to share your third-party account credentials with Amplify, we may obtain personal information via that mechanism. You may configure your accounts on these third-party platform services to control what information they share.
8. Security
Amplify maintains a comprehensive information security program and uses industry standard administrative, technical, operational, and physical measures to safeguard Student Data in its possession against loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification. Amplify performs periodic risk assessments of its information security program and prioritizes the remediation of identified security vulnerabilities. Please see https://amplify.com/security for a detailed description of Amplify’s security program.
In the event Amplify discovers or is notified that Student Data within our possession or control was disclosed to, or acquired by, an unauthorized party, we will investigate the incident, take steps to mitigate the potential impact, and notify the School in accordance with Applicable Laws.
Non-Student Data
Outside of Student Data, Amplify uses commercially reasonable administrative, technical, personnel, and physical measures to safeguard personal information in its possession against loss, theft, and unauthorized use, disclosure or modification.
9. Data Storage and Transfers
We are a United States Company, and our servers are hosted, managed, and controlled by us in the United States. If you are outside of the United States, we use industry standards to protect your data when it leaves your country of residence and your data will always be protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy, Applicable Laws and our Agreement regardless of the storage location.
Additionally, where we transfer your personal information to service providers outside of the United Kingdom (UK), European Economic Area (EEA), or other region that offers similar protections, we use specific appropriate safeguards to contractually obligate such service providers to protect personal information in accordance with Amplify’s commitment to privacy and security and applicable data protection laws.
If you have questions or wish to obtain more information about the international transfer of your personal information or the implemented safeguards, please contact us using the contact information below.
10. Data Retention / Deletion
Student Data
Upon request, we provide the School the opportunity to review and delete the personal information collected from Students. We will retain Student Data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy and our Agreement with the School. We do not knowingly retain Student Data beyond the time period required to support the School or Authorized School User’s educational purpose, unless authorized by the School or Authorized School User. Upon request, Amplify will return, delete, or destroy Student Data stored by Amplify in accordance with applicable law and customer requirements. We may not be able to delete all data in all circumstances, such as information retained in technical support records, customer service records, back-ups, and similar business records. All such information will be protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy and our Agreement until it has been permanently deleted. Unless otherwise notified by the School, we will delete or de-identify Student Data after termination of our Agreement with the School.
Non-Student Data
Outside of Student Data, we keep personal information as long as it is necessary or relevant for the practices described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise required by our Agreement with the School, if applicable. We determine the appropriate retention period for personal information on the basis of the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal information being processed, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the personal information, whether we can achieve the purposes of the processing through other means, and on the basis of applicable legal requirements (such as applicable statutes of limitations).
11. What rights and choices do you have?
What Choices Do You Have?
Marketing/Advertising
As noted above, we do not use Student Data for marketing purposes and we do not direct marketing to Students. Amplify does not use third party cookies and similar technologies for advertising and marketing purposes on Student-facing portions of the Products. The choices below apply to Non-Student Authorized Users.
Opt-out of Marketing Communications. If you want to stop receiving promotional materials from Amplify, you can follow the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email or email us at privacy@amplify.com. Amplify does not send marketing communications to Students.
Opt-out of Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies. With respect to cookies, you may be able to reject cookies through your browser or device controls. Note that you have to opt-out of cookies on each browser or device that you use. If you replace, change, or upgrade your browser or device, or delete your cookies, you may need to use these opt-out tools again. Please be aware that disabling cookies may negatively impact your experience as some features may not work properly. To learn more about browser cookies, including how to manage or delete them, check the “Help,” “Tools,” or similar section of your browser.
What Rights Do You Have?
Individuals in the U.S.
- What Rights Do You Have With Respect to Student Data?
- Review and Correction. FERPA requires schools to provide parents with access to their children’s education records, and parents may request that the school correct records that they believe to be inaccurate or misleading.
- If you are a parent or guardian and would like to review, correct, or update your child’s data stored in our Products, contact your School. Amplify will work with your School to enable your access to and, if applicable, correction of your child’s education records.
- If you have any questions about whom to contact or other questions about your child’s data, you may contact us using the information provided below.
- Other Privacy Rights? Please see section 3 of our supplemental disclosures: “Additional U.S. State Privacy Law Rights” for more information about your U.S. privacy rights
Individuals in the EU/UK
Please see section 4 of our supplemental disclosures: “Notice for European Economic Area and United Kingdom Customers” for more information about your EU/UK privacy rights.
12. COPPA
We do not knowingly collect personal information from a Child User unless and until a School or Educator, with the permission of the School, has authorized us to collect such information to provide the Products. Amplify relies on the School acknowledging that it is acting as the parent’s agent and consenting on the parent’s behalf to process personal information of Child Users in accordance with all applicable provisions of COPPA. To the extent COPPA applies to the information we collect, we process such information for educational purposes only, and no other commercial purpose, at the direction of the School and on the basis of the School’s authorization. If you are a parent or guardian and have questions about your child’s use of the Products and any personal information collected, please direct these questions to your child’s school.
Please refer to the Appendix–Supplemental Disclosures if you are a Home User.
13. Updates to this Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy in the future. For example, we may update it to comply with new laws or regulations, to conform to industry best practices, or to reflect changes in our product offerings. When these changes do not reflect material changes in our practices with respect to use and/or disclosure of Authorized Users’ personal information, including Student Data, such changes to the Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on our website. In the event there are material changes in our practices that would result in Authorized Users’ personal information being used in a materially different manner than was disclosed when the information was collected, with respect to Student Data, we will notify the School, and with respect to other information, we will notify you via email and provide an opportunity to opt out before such changes take effect.
14. Contact us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Email: privacy@amplify.com
Mail: Amplify Education, Inc.
55 Washington St.#800
Brooklyn, NY, 11201
Phone: (800) 823-1969
Attn: General Counsel
To report a security vulnerability, visit https://amplify.com/report-a-vulnerability/.
Appendix – Supplemental Disclosures
1. Mathigon and Amplify Classroom accounts
While our Products are geared towards Schools we do provide a limited opportunity for Home Users to use the Products at home—outside of the school context. We do not allow persons under the age of 13 (or those under the age of consent in any applicable jurisdiction) to register for an account with us outside the school context.
If you are a Home User, you are prohibited from collecting or providing any personal information from students or minors. You are permitted to access the platform for instructional purposes, but you may not enroll or roster minors, create accounts for minors, or input any personal information of minors into the Product.
Please note that most parts of Mathigon can be used without creating an account or providing any personal information that directly identifies you.
What Rights Do You Have? If you are a Child User who is 13 or older with a legacy Mathigon account (or the parent or guardian of a Child User with a legacy Mathigon account), you may request that we provide for your review, delete from our records, or cease collecting any Child User personal information. To the extent that you are unable to exercise these rights through self-service features within your account with us, please contact us by sending an email to: help@amplify.com and we will provide assistance.
2. U.S. Notice at Collection
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Some of the information described above may be considered “sensitive” under the laws of certain jurisdictions (i.e., account credentials and race/national origin) (“Sensitive Information”). We use Sensitive Information for necessary or reasonably expected purposes – specifically, to provide you with our Services (i.e., account credentials are used to allow account logins and race/national origin are used for the School’s reporting purposes when voluntarily provided by the School).
We do not sell or share your personal information, as described in California law.
We retain your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes disclosed in the chart above. Additional information about our retention of Student Data and personal information from other Authorized Users can be found in Section 10 of this Privacy Policy.
Please see the Additional U.S. State Privacy Law Rights section of this appendix for information about your privacy rights pursuant to applicable U.S. law.
Notice of Financial Incentive
From time to time, to support our services, we offer opportunities to complete surveys and questionnaires. As an incentive for completing the survey or questionnaire, you can voluntarily provide personal information as an entry into a raffle drawing or to obtain other benefits, discounts, offers, or deals that may constitute a financial incentive under California law (“Financial Incentive”). The categories of personal information required for us to provide the Financial Incentives include: contact information and any other information that you choose to provide when you complete the survey.
Participation is voluntary and you can opt out at any time before the survey is complete. We do not allow students to participate in our surveys.
The value of the personal information we collect in connection with our Financial Incentives is equivalent to the value of the benefit offered.
3. Additional U.S. State Privacy Law Rights
Note for Requests Relating to Student Data: Because Amplify provides the Products to Schools as a “School Official,” we collect, retain, use, and disclose Student Data only for or on behalf of the School for educational purposes, including the purpose of providing the Products specified in our Agreement with the School and for no other commercial purpose. Accordingly, we act as a “service provider” for the School with respect to School Data. We work with the School to support and assist them in addressing privacy requests relating to School Data. Please reach out to your School directly if you wish to exercise any privacy rights that may be available to you.
For all other requests: With respect to Amplify Data, individuals residing in certain U.S. states have the following rights, regarding your personal information (each of which is subject to various exceptions and limitations):
- Access. You have the right to request, up to two times every 12 months, that we disclose to you the categories of personal information collected about you; the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected; the categories of personal information sold or shared; the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing the personal information; the categories of third parties with whom personal information was shared; and the specific pieces of personal information collected about you.
- Correction. You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information collected from you.
- Deletion. You have the right to request that we delete the personal information that we maintain about you. Even after the deletion of your account, some personal information may remain on our servers, such as in technical support logs, server caches, data backups, or email conversations. These will be automatically deleted after a reasonable amount of time, unless we are legally required to retain information for longer, or unless there is a legitimate business reason (e.g. security and fraud prevention or financial record-keeping). We are not required to delete any information which has been aggregated or de-identified in accordance with Section 5.
- No Discrimination. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
- Appeals. You have a right to appeal decisions concerning your ability to exercise your consumer rights.
See Submitting Requests section below for details on submitting a request to exercise these rights.
4. Notice for European Economic Area (EEA) and United Kingdom (UK) Customers
As detailed at the beginning of our Privacy Policy (under the section titled “Our Role”), Amplify operates primarily as a processor that collects personal information on behalf of the School, and we act as a controller in limited circumstances where we offer Products outside the school context.
If you represent a School in the EEA or the UK, please note that we process personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, our Acceptable Use Policy, and our standard Data Protection Agreement, which sets out our responsibilities when it comes to our processing activities. Schools must send an email to privacy@amplify.com to enter into that DPA.
Lawful Basis for Processing
We rely on the following lawful bases for our processing activities:
- Consent;
- We obtain your consent to use cookies to collect and process device and usage data to understand how individuals use our Products.
- Pursuant to a contract for use of our Products;
- We process School Data to provide our Products (e.g., to create, authenticate and manage your account, to verify your identity, to manage our Products) pursuant to the Agreement between us and the School, as required in order for us to perform our obligations.
- To comply with our legal obligations;
- We process all categories of personal information that we collect to ensure the safety and security of our Products where we are complying with security requirements under data protection and cyber and information security law.
- We process all categories of personal information that we collect to comply with our legal obligations which includes, for example, to access, retain or share certain personal information where we receive a valid request from a government body, law enforcement body, judicial body regulator or similar, to deal with legal claims and prospective legal claims, and to ensure we are complying with applicable laws.
- When we have a legitimate interest in doing so, which is not outweighed by the risks to the individual.
- We process all categories of personal information that we collect to support the provision, effective management, and improvement of our Products where such activities are not strictly required under our contract. This is in our legitimate interests to ensure that we are providing the best possible service.
- We process all categories of personal information that we collect to ensure the safety and security of our services where this is important but not required under the data protection law or cyber and information security laws. This is in our legitimate interests to ensure the security of our services and systems, to prevent threats, abuse or fraudulent or unlawful activity, to promote safety and security and to ensure our Products are used in accordance with our terms and conditions.
- We process the contact information of Non-Student Authorized Users to manage our relationship, including to respond to queries or otherwise communicate with you in relation to our Products and the operation of our business where this is not strictly required under a contract with you. This is in our legitimate interests to communicate with and resolve queries from users of our Products and to ensure that we are providing the best possible service.
We process the contact information and survey data of Non-Student Authorized Users for internal research and marketing purposes in limited circumstances (e.g. to periodically send newsletters and other promotional materials), which will not be based on Student Data or directed to Students. This is in our legitimate interests to understand our customers and prospective customers, understand how our products and services are perceived in the market, to promote our products, and to grow and develop our business.
Your Data Subject Rights
Note for Requests Relating to School Data: Amplify acts as processor to its School customers with respect to all School Data. We work with our School customers to support and assist them in addressing privacy requests relating to School Data. Please reach out to your School directly if you wish to exercise any privacy rights that may be available to you.
For all other Requests – With respect to Amplify Data, you have the following rights if you are in the EEA or UK, subject to certain exceptions:
- Right of access: You have the right to ask us for confirmation on whether we are processing your personal information and access to that personal information.
- Right to correction: You have the right to have your personal information corrected.
- Right to erasure: You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information.
- Right to withdraw consent: You have the right to withdraw consent that you have provided.
- Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
- Right to restriction of processing: You have the right to request the limiting of our processing under limited circumstances.
- Right to data portability: You have the right to receive the personal information that you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit that information to another controller, including to have it transmitted directly, where technically feasible.
- Right to object: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information
See Submitting Requests section below for details on submitting a request to exercise these rights.
5. Submitting Requests
To exercise any of the rights described in sections 2 and 3 of this appendix, email us at privacy@amplify.com and specify which privacy right you intend to exercise. We may require additional information from you to allow us to confirm your identity. The verification steps will vary depending on the sensitivity of the personal information and whether you have an account with us. Please note that your rights may not apply in all cases. For example, we may need to retain your personal information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and enforce our agreements. We will inform you if we are not able to fully respond to your requests. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. When submitting the request, please ensure the authorized agent identifies himself/herself/itself as an authorized agent and can show written permission from you to represent you. We may contact you directly to confirm that you have authorized the agent to act on your behalf or confirm your identity.
Complaints
If you have any issues, you have the right to lodge a complaint with an EEA or UK supervisory authority. We would, however, appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns before you approach a data protection regulator and would welcome you directing an inquiry first to us. To do so, please contact us by email at privacy@amplify.com or by mail at Amplify Education, Inc., 55 Washington St.#800, Brooklyn, NY, 11201.
6. Google APIs
Amplify uses Google’s Application Programming Interface (API) Services to enable Authorized Users to log in to Amplify, import classes and rosters from Google Classroom, create assignments in Google Classroom, and copy, edit, and publish Amplify content using Google Slides. Amplify will use and transfer information received from Google’s API in accordance with Google API Service User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Update History:
Update: 6/13/2025: This Policy has been updated to align with product updates and to provide additional context for authorized educational use of Amplify’s Products.
Update 6/27/2024: The Policy has been updated to include an explanation regarding Google APIs in the Appendix — Supplemental Disclosures section.
Update 6/30/2023: This Privacy Policy has been updated to address new state law data privacy requirements.
Acceptable Use Policy
Amplify Education, Inc. (“Amplify”) products support classroom instruction and learning and include Amplify CKLA, Amplify ELA, Amplify Science, Amplify Desmos Math, Desmos Math, Boost Reading, Boost Math, mCLASS, Mathigon, services at classroom.amplify.com (for creating and assigning activities) and student.amplify.com (for use of the activities or curricula as directed by an instructor), and any other product or service that links to this Acceptable Use Policy (together, the “Products”). This Acceptable Use Policy (the “AUP”) provides the general terms and conditions applicable to your use of the Products. By accessing, downloading, or using the Products, you agree to be bound by the terms of this AUP.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this AUP supersedes or limits your rights under the terms of any other agreement you or your institution have entered into with Amplify regarding the use of Products. In the event of any conflict between the AUP and the terms and conditions of an applicable agreement that you or your institution have entered into with Amplify, the terms and conditions of such agreement shall control.
Our Products are geared towards K–12 students, educators, and staff who use the Products as authorized by their School District or State Agency (each as defined in the Privacy Policy (defined below), and together, “School”) (“Authorized School Users”). Student Data (defined below) is owned and controlled by the School, and Amplify receives Student Data as a “school official” under Section 99.31 of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (“FERPA”) for the purpose of providing the Products hereunder. In addition, we rely on the School acknowledging that it is acting as the parent’s agent and consenting on the parent’s behalf to process personal information of students under the age of 13 (“Child Users”) in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”).
Schools may provide authorization in two ways:
(1) by the School agreeing to our Customer Terms and Conditions located at amplify.com/customer-terms or another agreement between Amplify and the School, as applicable; or
(2) by an educator, staff member, or agent of a School (“Educator”) agreeing to this AUP. If you are an Educator and wish to use the Products in your classroom, you represent and warrant that the use of the Products in your classroom has been authorized by your School, and that you are authorized to accept this AUP on behalf of the School.
In each case, we provide these Products solely for the benefit of the School and for no other commercial purpose. We require all Schools to review our Privacy Policy, available at amplify.com/customer-privacy (“Privacy Policy”), and to make a copy of the Privacy Policy available to the parents or guardians of Child Users.
We also provide limited opportunities for individual users to sign up for a restricted account for at-home use of our Products (together, with Authorized School Users, “Authorized Users”). Please see Additional terms for Mathigon and Amplify Classroom accounts (Section 18) for additional information.
1. License
Subject to compliance with this AUP, you are granted a non-transferable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Products. You understand that your use of the Products does not confer to you any intellectual property rights held by Amplify or its licensors. Unless otherwise indicated, any future release, update, or other addition to functionality or content of the Products will be subject to this AUP.
2. Restrictions
You may access and use the Products solely for non-commercial instructional and administrative purposes. Guidelines for such purposes may be set forth at http://amplify.com/amplify-program-usage-guidelines and additional guidelines may be detailed in materials associated with the Product You are accessing. Further, You may not, except as expressly authorized by Amplify: (a) copy, modify, translate, distribute, disclose, or create derivative works based on the contents of, sell, or otherwise exploit, the Products, or any part thereof; (b) decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer the Products, or otherwise use the Products to develop functionally similar products or services; (c) modify, alter, or delete any of the copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices in or on the Products; (d) rent, lease, or lend the Products or use the Products for the benefit of any third party; (e) avoid, circumvent, or disable any security or digital rights management device, procedure, protocol, or mechanism in the Products; (f) use any content from the Products, including but not limited to text, images, videos, assessments, lesson plans, or code, as input or training material for any machine learning or artificial intelligence system, including large language models, neural networks, or other algorithmic models, for any purposes, commercial or non-commercial; or (g) permit any Authorized User or third party to do any of the foregoing. You also agree that any works created in violation of this section are derivative works, and, as such, You agree to assign, and hereby assign, all right, title, and interest in such works to Amplify. The Products and derivatives thereof may be subject to export control laws, restrictions, regulations, and orders of the U.S. and other jurisdictions (together, “Export Laws”). You agree to comply with all applicable Export Laws, and will not, and will not permit Authorized Users to, export, or transfer for the purpose of re-export, any Product to any prohibited or embargoed country in violation of any U.S. export law or regulation. Further, You represent that You are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, subject to sanctions by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, or included on any restricted party list maintained by the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security. The software and associated documentation portions of the Products are “commercial items” (as defined at 48 CFR 2.101), comprising “commercial computer software” and “commercial computer software documentation,” as those terms are used in 48 CFR 12.212. Accordingly, if You are associated with the U.S. Government or its contractor, You will receive only those rights set forth in this Agreement in accordance with 48 CFR 227.7201-227.7204 (for Department of Defense and their contractors) or 48 CFR 12.212 (for other U.S. Government licensees and their contractors).
3. Use of the products
In connection with your access to and use of the Products, you agree not to: (a) post, upload, or otherwise transmit or link to content that is: unlawful; threatening; harmful; abusive; pornographic or includes nudity; offensive; harassing; excessively violent; tortious; defamatory; false or misleading; obscene; vulgar; libelous; hateful; or discriminatory; (b) violate the rights of others, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, privacy, publicity, contract, or other proprietary rights; (c) harass or harm another person; (d) exploit or endanger a minor; (e) impersonate any person or entity; (f) introduce or engage in activity that involves the use of viruses, bots, worms, Trojan horses, time bombs, spyware, or any other computer code, files, or programs that interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment, or otherwise permit the unauthorized access to or use of a computer or a computer network; (g) interfere with, damage, disable, disrupt, impair, create an undue burden on, or gain unauthorized access to the Products or any account (as defined below), or Amplify’s servers or networks; (h) restrict or inhibit any other person from using the Products (including by hacking or defacing the Products); (i) remove, disable, block, or obscure any portion of the Products; (j) use technology or any automated system, such as scripts or bots, to collect user names, passwords, email addresses, or any other data from or through the Products, or to circumvent or modify any security technology or software that is part of the Products; (k) send or cause to send (directly or indirectly) unsolicited bulk messages or other unsolicited bulk communications of any kind through the Products; (l) solicit, collect, or request any information for commercial or unlawful purposes; (m) post, upload, or otherwise transmit an image, audio recording, or video of another person without that person’s consent; (n) use the Products to advertise, promote, or engage in any commercial activity (including engaging in advertising, sales, contests, sweepstakes, or other promotions) without Amplify’s prior written consent; (o) frame or mirror the Products without Amplify’s express prior written consent; (p) use the Products in a manner inconsistent with any applicable law, rule, or regulation; (q) use any robot, spider, search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device to retrieve, index, “scrape,” “data mine,” or in any way gather content of the Products or reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Products; (r) attempt, facilitate, or encourage others to do any of the foregoing. In addition to the foregoing restrictions, your use of the Products may also be subject to an additional acceptable use policy provided to you by your School, as applicable. You are responsible for meeting the hardware, software, telecommunications, and other requirements listed at amplify.com/customer-requirements.
4. Intellectual property
The Products and any Product logo, and certain other of the names, logos, and materials displayed in the Products, may constitute trademarks, trade names, or service marks (“Marks”) of Amplify or other entities. You are not authorized to use any such Marks. Ownership of all such Marks and the goodwill associated therewith remains with Amplify or those other entities. The content provided to you in the Products, including the software, graphs, text, and graphics, is protected under copyright laws, is subject to other intellectual property and proprietary rights and laws, and is owned by Amplify or its licensors. Your access to the Products does not transfer to you or any third party any rights, title, or interest in or to such intellectual property rights. You may not use the content of the Products, in whole or in part, to train or fine-tune any machine learning or artificial intelligence model or system, including for research, product development, commercial services, or any other purpose, commercial or non-commercial. Such use constitutes unauthorized derivative work and a violation of Amplify’s intellectual property rights. Your rights to make use of the Products are limited to those provided under this AUP, any additional terms as may be agreed upon between your School and Amplify, and any available exceptions under applicable intellectual property laws. Amplify Products are protected by patents (see amplify.com/virtual-patent-marking).
5. Account information
Your authentication to enable your access and use of these Products is based in part upon information supplied by you. You are required to (a) provide accurate information to Amplify and promptly report any changes to such information, (b) not share or allow others to use your account, (c) maintain the confidentiality and security of your account information, and (d) use the Products solely via such authorized accounts. You may not share your credentials (i.e., username and password) to access the Products with anyone except the person for whom that account was created. You agree to notify Amplify immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or related authentication information. Amplify will not be responsible for any losses arising out of the unauthorized use of your account.
6. Student data
The parties acknowledge and agree that in the course of providing the Products, Amplify may collect, receive, or generate information that directly relates to an identifiable current or former student of a School (“Student Data”). Student Data may include personal information from a student’s “educational records,” as defined by FERPA. Student Data is owned and controlled by the School and Amplify receives Student Data as a “school official” under Section 99.31 of FERPA for the purpose of providing the Products hereunder. Individually and collectively, Amplify and School agree to uphold our obligations, as applicable, under FERPA, COPPA, the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (“PPRA”), and applicable state laws relating to Student Data privacy. Amplify’s Privacy Policy governs the collection, use, and disclosure of Student Data collected or stored on behalf of the School under this AUP. The School is responsible for providing notice or obtaining appropriate consents under applicable laws to authorize Authorized School Users’ use of the Products, including making a copy of the Privacy Policy available to the parents or guardians of Child Users. Please see Additional Terms for Mathigon and Amplify Classroom accounts (Section 18) for additional information.
7. Confidentiality
You acknowledge that in connection with these terms, Amplify may provide you with certain sensitive or proprietary information (“Confidential Information”), including software, source code, assessment instruments, research, designs, methods, processes, customer lists, training materials, product documentation, know-how, or trade secrets, in whatever form. You agree (a) not to use Confidential Information for any purpose other than use of the Products in accordance with the AUP, and (b) to take all steps reasonably necessary to maintain and protect the Confidential Information of Amplify in strict confidence. Confidential Information shall not include information that, as evidenced by your contemporaneous written records: (i) is or becomes publicly available through no fault of your own; (ii) is rightfully known to you prior to the time of its disclosure; (iii) has been independently developed by you without any use of the Confidential Information; or (iv) is subsequently learned from a third party not under any confidentiality obligation.
8. User materials
You represent, warrant, and covenant that you have all the necessary rights, including consents and intellectual property rights, in connection with any data, information, content, and other materials provided to or collected by Amplify from you or on your behalf in connection with your use of the Products, including materials and content that you post, upload, transmit, email, or otherwise make available on, through, or in connection with the Products (“User Materials”), and that except as otherwise agreed by your School and Amplify, you retain any ownership rights that you have in your User Materials. You hereby grant to Amplify and its affiliates, licensees, and authorized users, a perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid-up, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), transferable (in whole or in part), worldwide license to use, modify, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and compilations based upon, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such User Materials in connection with the Products, subject to Amplify’s Privacy Policy. You and your School are responsible for the accuracy, integrity, completeness, quality, legality, and safety of such User Materials. You further represent and warrant that the posting of such User Materials through or in connection with the Products does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights, or any other rights of any person or entity. Amplify and your School reserve the right (but have no obligation) to monitor the Products, including for inappropriate content or conduct, and to remove any content in their discretion without liability to you or any third party. Further, Amplify reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in Amplify’s discretion, violates this AUP or attempts to do so, including terminating or suspending a user’s account or access to or use of the Products, or reporting any content or conduct to law enforcement authorities. You are solely responsible for creating and maintaining your own backup copies of your User Materials. Amplify is not responsible for any loss, theft, or damage of any kind to any User Materials.
9. Feedback
If you provide us with any ideas, proposals, or suggestions related to the Products (“Feedback”), you hereby acknowledge and agree that your provision of any Feedback is gratuitous, unsolicited, and without restriction, and does not place Amplify under any fiduciary or other obligation. You hereby grant to Amplify a worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, and fully sublicensable (through multiple tiers) license to reproduce, distribute, perform and/or display (publicly or otherwise), adapt, modify, and otherwise use such Feedback, in any format or media now known or hereafter developed, and you hereby represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights to grant the foregoing license.
10. Third party links and services
The Products may make available, or third parties may provide, links to websites, software, applications, resources, advertisements, content, or other products or services created, hosted, or made available by third parties (“Third Party Services”). When you access or use a Third-Party Service, you are interacting with the applicable third party, not with Amplify, and you do so at your own risk. Inclusion of any Third-Party Service or a link thereto within the Products does not imply approval or endorsement of such Third-Party Service. Amplify does not control any content that is not Amplify content, and as such, you may be exposed to offensive, indecent, inaccurate, or otherwise objectionable content in the course of accessing or using such Third-Party Services linked from the Products. You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of the Products, providers of Third-Party Services, and any other third parties with whom you interact on, through, or in connection with the Products. AMPLIFY IS NEITHER RESPONSIBLE NOR LIABLE FOR ANY THIRD-PARTY SERVICES, INCLUDING THE ACCURACY, INTEGRITY, COMPLETENESS, QUALITY, LEGALITY, USEFULNESS, OR SAFETY OF, OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS RELATING TO, SUCH THIRD-PARTY SERVICES. ANY ACCESS TO OR USE OF SUCH THIRD-PARTY SERVICES MAY BE SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND INFORMATION COLLECTION, USAGE, AND DISCLOSURE PRACTICES OF THIRD PARTIES. THIS AUP DOES NOT CREATE ANY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOU AND ANY PROVIDER OF THIRD-PARTY SERVICES, AND NOTHING IN THIS AUP WILL BE DEEMED TO BE A REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY BY AMPLIFY WITH RESPECT TO ANY THIRD-PARTY SERVICE.
11. Digital Millennium Copyright Act
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (“DMCA”) provides recourse for copyright owners who believe that material appearing on the Internet infringes their rights under U.S. copyright law. If you believe that any material residing on or linked to from the Products infringes your copyright, please send (or have your agent send) to Amplify’s Copyright Agent, by email, fax, or regular mail, a written notification of claimed infringement with all of the following information: (a) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works; (b) identification of the claimed infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material on the Products (such as the URL(s) of the claimed infringing material); (c) information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an e-mail address; (d) a statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, the copyright owner’s agent or the law; (e) a statement by you that the above information in your notification is accurate, and a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed, or that you are authorized to act on such owner’s behalf; and (f) your physical or electronic signature. Amplify’s Copyright Agent for notification of claimed infringement can be reached as follows: Amplify Education, Inc., 55 Washington Street #800, Brooklyn NY 11201; Attn: Copyright Agent. Amplify’s Copyright Agent for notification of claimed infringement can also be reached electronically at legal@amplify.com. Amplify reserves the right to terminate infringers’ and suspected infringers’ accounts or their access to or use of the Products.
12. Changes to the products
Amplify may, without prior notice, change any Product or stop providing any features of any Product. We may permanently or temporarily terminate or suspend your access to any Product features without notice for any reason, including if in our sole determination you violate any provision of this AUP. Upon termination, you continue to be bound by this AUP.
13. Warranty disclaimer
PRODUCTS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND BY AMPLIFY. AMPLIFY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY AS TO TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE. YOU ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR SELECTING THE PRODUCTS TO ACHIEVE YOUR INTENDED RESULTS AND FOR THE ACCESS AND USE OF THE PRODUCTS, INCLUDING THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE PRODUCTS. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, AMPLIFY MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE PRODUCTS WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR FREE FROM INTERRUPTIONS OR OTHER FAILURES OR WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS. AMPLIFY IS NEITHER RESPONSIBLE NOR LIABLE FOR ANY THIRD-PARTY CONTENT OR SOFTWARE INCLUDED IN PRODUCTS, INCLUDING THE ACCURACY, INTEGRITY, COMPLETENESS, QUALITY, LEGALITY, USEFULNESS, OR SAFETY OF, OR IP RIGHTS RELATING TO, SUCH THIRD-PARTY CONTENT AND SOFTWARE. ANY ACCESS TO OR USE OF SUCH THIRD-PARTY CONTENT AND SOFTWARE MAY BE SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND INFORMATION COLLECTION, USAGE, AND DISCLOSURE PRACTICES OF THIRD PARTIES.
14. Limitation of liability
IN NO EVENT WILL AMPLIFY BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, RELIANCE, OR COVER DAMAGES, DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, LOST BUSINESS, OR ANY OTHER INDIRECT DAMAGES, EVEN IF AMPLIFY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, AMPLIFY’S ENTIRE LIABILITY TO YOU ARISING OUT OF PERFORMANCE OR NONPERFORMANCE BY AMPLIFY OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AUP, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE CLAIM FOR SUCH DAMAGES IS BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, WILL NOT EXCEED $100 IN AGGREGATE. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL AMPLIFY BE LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENCES OF ANY UNAUTHORIZED USE OF THE PRODUCTS THAT VIOLATES THIS AUP OR ANY APPLICABLE LAW OR REGULATION.
15. Termination
Amplify may terminate or suspend your access to the Products at any time for any reason, including if Amplify believes that you have violated the AUP or have engaged in conduct that violates applicable law or is otherwise harmful to the interests of Amplify, any other Amplify user, or any third party. Upon termination, you will: cease using the Products and return, purge, or destroy all copies of any Products and, if so requested, certify to Amplify in writing that such surrender or destruction has occurred. Sections 3–13, 16, and 17 will survive the termination of this Agreement.
16. Governing Law
This Agreement will be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the U.S., state of New York, without giving effect to the choice of law rules thereof.
17. Additional terms for iOS apps
By downloading any Products through Apple, Inc.’s App Store (“iOS Products”), you agree that the following additional terms apply to your use of our iOS Products:
- This AUP is not a legal agreement with Apple, Inc. (“Apple”). As between Amplify and Apple, Amplify (not Apple) is responsible for the iOS Products and the contents thereof.
- The license to use the iOS Products under Section 3 above is limited to use (i) on iOS devices that you or your School owns or controls, separate from and in addition to any specific technical requirements for any iOS Product, and (ii) as permitted by the Usage Rules set forth in Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.
- You must comply with applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the Products.
- Without limiting Section 13 above and solely as between Amplify and Apple, you acknowledge that: (i) Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to the iOS Products; (ii) Amplify (not Apple) is responsible for addressing any claims of yours or of any third party relating to the iOS Products or your possession and/or use of the iOS products, including but not limited to (1) product liability claims, (2) any claim that the iOS Products fail to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement, and (3) claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation; (iii) in the event of any failure of the iOS Products to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price for the iOS Products to you; to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the iOS Products, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be Amplify’s sole responsibility; and (iv) in the event of any third-party claim that the iOS Products or your possession and use of the iOS Products infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, Amplify (not Apple) will be responsible for any investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of any such intellectual property infringement claim.
- You represent and warrant that: (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country; and (ii) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
- Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary thereof.
- Any questions, complaints, or claims with respect to the Products should be directed to:
Email: privacy@amplify.comMail: Amplify Education, Inc., 55 Washington St. #800, Brooklyn, NY, 11201
18. Additional terms for Mathigon and Amplify Classroom accounts.
a. Mathigon updates: Amplify no longer offers accounts for Child Users, but we will continue to allow Child Users to access their active legacy Mathigon accounts where verifiable parental consent was obtained. We will continue to protect personal information in accordance with the Privacy Policy and applicable law.
b. Mathigon and Amplify Classroom:
i. School Use:
- Educators: If you are an Educator, you can create a Mathigon or an Amplify Classroom account using any existing email or through an existing third-party account (e.g. Google, Microsoft). Go to https://mathigon.org/signup#teacher to sign up for Mathigon. Go to classroom.amplify.com to sign up for Amplify Classroom.
- Students can also sign up using a unique class code provided by an Educator. Educators are responsible for gaining appropriate authorization or permission from their School to use the Products with students, including Child Users, before providing their unique class code or linking the Products to a third-party service like Google Classroom. For such use in the school context, we do not request additional consent from parents in accordance with the “school official” exception under FERPA and relevant COPPA guidance. For more information, visit our Privacy Policy, which describes how we collect, use, and disclose personal information and data through the provision of our Products in schools.
ii. Outside of School Use: If you are an individual user using the Products at home or otherwise outside of the school context, you are prohibited from collecting or providing any personal information from students or minors. You are permitted to access the platform for instructional purposes, but you may not enroll or roster minors, create accounts for minors, or input any personal information of minors into the Product.
19. Updates to this policy
We may change this Acceptable Use Policy in the future. For example, we may update it to address changes in our product offerings, or to address changes in the law or best practices. If we make changes that materially impact your legal rights or use of our products, we will provide prominent notification to you (e.g. via the Site or by email). Otherwise, we will post any updates to the policy with an updated “Last Revised Date” and all changes will become effective immediately. Please check the Last Revised Date to confirm if the policy has been revised.
Last Modified: February 2, 2026
1. Service Overview
As a provider of technology solutions to schools, Amplify’s commitment to data privacy and security is essential to our organization. This overview of Amplify’s Information Security Program describes physical, technical and administrative safeguards Amplify implements to protect student data in our care.
Company profile
Amplify Education, Inc. (Amplify) is a privately held company founded in 2000 as Wireless Generation. Amplify’s products include curriculum and instruction, assessment and intervention, professional development services and consulting services for K-12 education.
Service hosting
Amplify leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its cloud hosting provider. Within AWS, Amplify utilizes Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), which provide an isolated cloud environment within the AWS infrastructure. External network traffic to a VPC is managed via gateway and firewall rules, which are maintained in source code control to ensure that the configuration remains in compliance with Amplify security policy. In addition, the production VPCs and the development VPCs are isolated from each other and maintained in separate AWS accounts.
2. Policies & standards
Information security program
Amplify maintains a comprehensive information security program based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework and the NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 family of information security controls. These provide a robust framework of best practices from which an organization can build its security policies and protocols based on identified risks, compliance requirements, and business needs. They cover critical practice areas, including access control, configuration management, incident response, security training, and other information security domains.
Governance
Amplify’s Information Security Committee has primary responsibility for the development, maintenance, and implementation of the Amplify information security program. The Information Security Committee is responsible for all information risk management activities within the company and is composed of technology, business and legal leaders from the organization. The Committee meets weekly and includes a dedicated VP of Information Security and a program manager to oversee, direct and coordinate its activities.
Policy execution
Adherence to the internal Amplify information security policy is an obligation of every Amplify employee. Amplify conducts a series of internal monitoring procedures to verify compliance with internal information security policies, and all Amplify employees undergo annual criminal background checks. In addition, any third-party contractors who come into contact with systems that may contain student data are contractually bound to maintain security and privacy of the data.
3. Data access controls
Access control
Amplify’s access control principles dictate that all student data we store on behalf of customers is only accessible to district-authorized users and to a limited set of internal Amplify users who may only access the data for purposes authorized by the district. Districts maintain control over their internal users and may grant or revoke access.
In limited circumstances and strictly for the purposes of supporting school districts and maintaining the functionality of systems, certain Amplify users may access Amplify systems with student data. All such access to student data by Amplify technicians or customer support requires both authentication and authorization to view the information.
Encryption
Data encryption is an important element of our protection of sensitive data at rest and in transit, and is reviewed and updated as appropriate annually, based on the latest standards and guidelines published by OWASP and NIST.
- In transit: Amplify encrypts all student data in transit over public connections, using Transport Layer Security (TLS), commonly known as SSL, using industry-standard protocols, ciphers, algorithms, and key sizes.
- At rest: Amplify encrypts student data at rest using the industry-standard AES-256 encryption algorithm.
4. Application security by design
Building the right roles into applications
Permissions within Amplify applications are designed on the principle that school districts control access to all student data. To facilitate this, Amplify applications are designed so that roles and permissions flow from the district to the individual user. For example, applications that offer schools a way to collect and report on assessment results have a web interface that requires district administrators to authorize individuals to view student data.
Security controls within applications are used to ensure that the desired privacy protections are technically enforced within the system. For example, if a principal is supposed to see only the data related to his or her school, Amplify ensures that, throughout the design and development process, our products restrict principals from seeing records for any students outside his or her school.
To make sure Amplify applications properly enforce permissions and roles, our development teams conduct reviews early in the design process to ensure roles and permissions are an essential component of the design of new applications.
Building security controls into applications
Amplify applications are also developed to minimize security vulnerabilities and ensure industry-standard application security controls are in place.
As part of the development process, Amplify has a set of application security standards that all applications handling student data are required to follow, including:
- Student data is secured using industry standard encryption when in transit between end-users and Amplify systems.
- Applications are built with password brute-force attack prevention.
- User sessions expire after a fixed period of time.
We also conduct manual and automated static code analysis as well as dynamic application security testing to preemptively identify vulnerabilities published by industry leaders such as OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project)
5. Proactive security
Risk assessments
Amplify periodically engages a security consulting firm to conduct risk assessments, aimed at identifying and prioritizing security vulnerabilities. The Information Security Committee coordinates remediation of the vulnerabilities. The security consulting firm also provides ongoing advice on current risks and advises on remediation of vulnerabilities and incident response.
Penetration testing
Amplify engages third-party firms to continually conduct application penetration testing. The purpose of this testing is to test for application security vulnerabilities in the production environment. We work with third party penetration testing program partners. Third-party testing involves a combination of automated and manual testing.
Vulnerability management
Amplify ensures that its systems are free of known vulnerabilities in several ways. Every production server runs vulnerability detection software that compares the installed software against a global database of known vulnerabilities. Secondly, we employ real time network monitoring that reports on any potentially malicious traffic. In addition, a third-party security firm continually reviews all of our system logs for potential security breaches. Lastly we continually test our applications against common malicious internet traffic. Violations in any of these areas will alert one of our operations teams, who are available around the clock.
In addition, Amplify participates in a private bug bounty program through HackerOne, working with the security community to find security vulnerabilities and support our efforts to keep our data and systems safe and secure.
Endpoint security
Access to production systems at Amplify is restricted to a limited set of internal Amplify users to support technical infrastructure, troubleshoot customer issues, or other purposes authorized by the district. In addition, Amplify requires multi-factor (MFA) authentication methods for access to all production systems. MFA involves a combination of something only the user knows and something only the user can access. For example, MFA for administrative access could involve entering a password as well as entering a one-time passcode sent via text message to the administrator’s mobile phone. The use of MFA reduces the possibility that an unauthorized individual could use a compromised password to access a system.
Infrastructure security
Network filtering technologies are used to ensure that production environments with student data are properly segmented from the rest of the network. Production environments only have limited external access to enable customers to use our web interfaces and other services. In addition, Amplify uses firewalls to ensure that development servers have no access to production environments.
Other measures that Amplify takes to secure its operational environment include system monitoring to detect anomalous activity that could indicate potential attacks and breaches.
Security training
At Amplify, we believe that protecting student data is the responsibility of all employees. We implemented a comprehensive information security awareness training program that all employees undergo upon initial hire, with an annual refresher training. We also provide information security training and annual social engineering tests for specific departments based on role.
6. Reactive security
Monitoring
Intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS) are in place to analyze the network device logs, monitor the network and report anomalous activity for appropriate resolution.
Incident response
Amplify maintains a comprehensive Security Incident Response Policy Plan, which sets out roles, responsibilities and procedures for reporting, investigation, containment, remediation and notification of security incidents. Amplify works with reputable firms for incident response and digital forensics support, as well as annual table-top exercises in coordination with cybersecurity experts.
Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery
Amplify maintains a comprehensive Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Plan (BCP/DR), to guide personnel in procedures to protect against business disruptions caused by an unexpected event. The plans and related operations processes are tested on a semiannual basis, with ensuing operations improvement and remediation work.
7. Compliance
Audits
In addition to penetration testing and other proactive security testing and monitoring outlined above, Amplify undergoes annual SOC 2 Type 2 examinations of controls relevant to security. The examination is formally known as a Type 2 Independent Service Auditor’s Report on Controls Relevant to Security. The most recent examination was conducted by Schellman & Company, LLC and covers the period from April 1, 2024–March 31, 2025. The report states that Amplify’s systems meet the criteria for the security principle and opine on management’s description of the organization’s system and the suitability of the design of controls to protect against unauthorized access, use, or modification.
The Type 2 report also opines on the operating effectiveness of controls over the review period. This means that our auditors confirmed that we have continued to follow established security controls over the period of time of the review.
Certifications
SOC 2: Amplify successfully completed the SOC 2 Type 2 examination of controls relevant to security (see above, under “Audits”).
Privacy
Amplify’s products are built to facilitate district compliance with applicable data privacy laws, including FERPA and state laws related to the collection, access and review and disclosure of student data. Amplify’s Customer Privacy Policy describes the types of information collected and maintained on behalf of our school district customers and limitations on use and sharing of that data.
8. Supporting documentation
In the course of customer security assessment, the following documentation can be provided by Amplify upon customers’ request:
- Penetration Testing Report
- Risk Assessment Report
- SOC 2 Type 2 Report
9. Report a vulnerability
To report a security vulnerability, click here.
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In consideration of the Products, Customer will pay to Amplify (or other party designated on the Quote) the fees specified in the Quote in full within 30 days of the date of invoice, except as otherwise agreed by the parties or for those amounts that are subject to a good faith dispute of which Customer has notified Amplify in writing. Customer will be responsible for all state or local sales, use or gross receipts taxes, and federal excise taxes unless Customer provides a then-current tax exemption certificate in advance of the delivery, license, or performance of any Product, as applicable.
7. Shipments
Unless otherwise specified on the Quote, physical Products will be shipped FOB origin in the US (Incoterms 2010 EXW outside of the US) and are deemed accepted by Customer upon receipt. Upon acceptance of such Products, orders are non-refundable, non-returnable, and non-exchangeable, except in the case of defective or missing materials reported to Amplify by Customer within 60 days of receipt. In such case, Customer may not return Products without Amplify’s written authorization.
8. Account Information
For subscription Products, the authentication of Authorized School Users is based in part upon information supplied by Customer or Authorized School Users, as applicable. Customer will and will cause its Authorized School Users to (a) provide accurate information to Amplify or a third-party service as applicable, and promptly report any changes to such information, (b) not share login credentials or otherwise allow others to use their account, (c) maintain the confidentiality and security of their account information, and (d) use the Products solely via such authorized accounts. Customer agrees to notify Amplify immediately of any unauthorized use of its or its Authorized School Users’ accounts or related authentication information. Amplify will not be responsible for any losses arising out of the unauthorized use of accounts created by or for Customer and its Authorized School Users.
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Last Modified: February 2, 2026
Grade 6
Module 1: Ratios and Unit Rates
| Eureka Math | Desmos Math 6–A1 |
| Topic A Representing and Reasoning About Ratios | |
| Lesson 1: Ratios Lesson 2: Ratios | Unit 2 Lesson 1: Pizza Maker [Free lesson] Lesson 2: Ratio Rounds (Print available) |
| Lesson 3: Equivalent Ratios Lesson 4: Equivalent Ratios | Unit 2 Lesson 3: Rice Ratios Lesson 4: Fruit Lab [Free lesson] Lesson 5: Balancing Act Lesson 7: Mixing Paint, Part 1 Lesson 8 World Records (Print available) Lesson 11 Community Life (Print available) Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Lesson 5: Solving Problems by Finding Equivalent Ratios Lesson 6: Solving Problems by Finding Equivalent Ratios | Unit 2 Lesson 5 Balancing Act |
| Lesson 7: Associated Ratios and the Value of a Ratio Lesson 8: Equivalent Ratios Defined Through the Value of a Ratio | Unit 2 Lesson 6: Product Prices (Print available) Lesson 7: Mixing Paint, Part 1 |
| Topic B Collections of Equivalent Ratios | |
| Lesson 9: Tables of Equivalent Ratios | Unit 2 Lesson 6: Product Prices (Print available) Lesson 7: Mixing Paint, Part 1 |
| Lesson 10: The Structure of Ratio Tables-Additive and Multiplicative | Unit 2 Lesson 10: Balloons Lesson 11: Community Life (Print available) |
| Lesson 11: Comparing Ratios Using Ratio Tables | Unit 2 Lesson 10: Balloons |
| Lesson 12: From Ratio Tables to Double Number Line Diagrams | Unit 2 Lesson 6: Product Prices (Print available) Lesson 8: World Records (Print available) Lesson 12: Mixing Paint, Part 2 Lesson 14: Lunch Waste (Print available) Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Lesson 13: From Ratio Tables to Equations Using the Value of a Ratio | |
| Lesson 14: From Ratio Tables, Equations, and Double Number Line Diagrams to Plots on the Coordinate Plane | |
| Lesson 15: A Synthesis of Representations of Equivalent Ratio Collections | |
| Topic C Unit Rates | |
| Lesson 16: From Ratio to Rates | Unit 2 Lesson 8: World Records (Print available) Unit 3 Lesson 4: Model Trains Lesson 5: Soft Serve [Free lesson] Lesson 6: Welcome to the Robot Factory |
| Lesson 17: From Rates to Ratios | |
| Lesson 18: Finding a Rate by Dividing Two Quantities | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Model Trains Lesson 5: Soft Serve [Free lesson] Lesson 6: Welcome to the Robot Factory Lesson 7: More Soft Serve |
| Lesson 19: Comparison Shopping-Unit Price and Related Measurement Conversions Lesson 20: Comparison Shopping-Unit Price and Related Measurement Conversions Lesson 21: Getting the Job Done—Speed, Work, and Measurement Units Lesson 22: Getting the Job Done—Speed, Work, and Measurement Units | Unit 3 Lesson 2: Counting Classrooms Lesson 3: Pen Pals |
| Lesson 23: Problem-Solving Using Rates, Unit Rates, and Conversions. | Unit 3 Lesson 13: A Country as a Village |
| Topic D Percent | |
| Lesson 24: Percent and Rates per 100 | Unit 3 Lesson 8: Lucky Duckies [Free lesson] Lesson 9: Bicycle Goals |
| Lesson 25: A Fraction as a Percent | |
| Lesson 26: Percent of a Quantity. | Unit 3 Lesson 10: What´s Missing? (Print available) Lesson 11: Cost Breakdown |
| Lesson 27: Solving Percent Problems Lesson 28: Solving Percent Problems Lesson 29: Solving Percent Problems | Unit 3 Lesson 10: What´s Missing? (Print available) Lesson 11: Cost Breakdown Lesson 12: More Bicycle Goals Lesson 13: A Country as a Village Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
Module 2: Arithmetic Operations Including Division of Fractions
| Lesson 1: Interpreting Division of a Fraction by a Whole Number—Visual Models. | Unit 4 Lesson 2: Making Connections (Print available) |
| Lesson 2: Interpreting Division of a Whole Number by a Fraction —Visual Models. | Unit 4 Lesson 1: Cookie Cutter Lesson 3: Flour Planner [Free lesson] Lesson 4: Flower Planters Lesson 5: Garden Bricks (Print available) |
| Lesson 3: Interpreting and Computing Division of a Fraction by a Fraction—More Models Lesson 4: Interpreting and Computing Division of a Fraction by a Fraction—More Models | Unit 4 Lesson 5: Garden Bricks Lesson 6: Fill the Gap [Free lesson] Lesson 7: Break It Down Lesson 8: Potting Soil Lesson 9: Division Challenges Lesson 10: Swap Meet (Print available) Practice Day |
| Lesson 5: Creating Division Stories. | |
| Lesson 6: More Division Stories. | |
| Lesson 7: The Relationship Between Visual Fraction Models and Equations | |
| Lesson 8: Dividing Fractions and Mixed Numbers | Unit 4 Lesson 5: Garden Bricks (Print available) Lesson 6: Fill the Gap [Free lesson] |
| Topic B Multi-Digit Decimal Operations—Adding, Subtracting, and Multiplying | |
| Lesson 9: Sums and Differences of Decimals | Unit 5 Lesson 2: Decimal Diagrams [Free lesson] Lesson 3: Fruit by the Pound Lesson 4: Missing Digits |
| Lesson 10: The Distributive Property and the Products of Decimals | Unit 5 Lesson 5: Decimal Multiplication Lesson 6: Multiplying with Areas Lesson 7: Multiplication Methods (Print available) |
| Lesson 11: Fraction Multiplication and the Products of Decimals | Unit 5 Lesson 7: Multiplication Methods (Print available) |
| Topic C Dividing Whole Numbers and Decimals | |
| Lesson 12: Estimating Digits in a Quotient | |
| Lesson 13: Dividing Multi-Digit Numbers Using the Algorithm | Unit 5 Lesson 9: Long Division Launch Practice Day 1 (Print available) Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Lesson 14: The Division Algorithm—Converting Decimal Division into Whole Number Division Using Fractions. | |
| Lesson 15: The Division Algorithm—Converting Decimal Division into Whole Number Division Using Mental Math | |
| Topic D Number Theory—Thinking Logically About Multiplicative Arithmetic | |
| Lesson 16: Even and Odd Numbers | |
| Lesson 17: Divisibility Tests for 3 and 9 | |
| Lesson 18: Least Common Multiple and Greatest Common Factor | Unit 5 Lesson 14: Common Multiples Lesson 15: Common Factors Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Lesson 19: The Euclidean Algorithm as an Application of the Long Division Algorithm |
Module 3: Rational Numbers
| Lesson 1: Positive and Negative Numbers on the Number Line—Opposite Direction and Value | Unit 7Lesson 2: Digging Deeper |
| Lesson 2: Real-World Positive and Negative Numbers and Zero. Lesson 3: Real-World Positive and Negative Numbers and Zero. | Unit 7 Lesson 4: Sub-Zero |
| Lesson 4: The Opposite of a Number Lesson 5: The Opposite of a Number’s Opposite Lesson 6: Rational Numbers on the Number Line | Unit 7Lesson 2: Digging Deeper |
| Topic B Order and Absolute Value | |
| Lesson 7: Ordering Integers and Other Rational Numbers Lesson 8: Ordering Integers and Other Rational Numbers Lesson 9: Comparing Integers and Other Rational Numbers | Unit 7Lesson 3: Order in the Class (Print available) [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 10: Writing and Interpreting Inequality Statements Involving Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 11: Absolute Value—Magnitude and Distance Lesson 12: The Relationship Between Absolute Value and Order | Unit 7Lesson 5: Distance on the Number Line |
| Lesson 13: Statements of Order in the Real World. | |
| Topic C Rational Numbers and the Coordinate Plane | |
| Lesson 14: Ordered Pairs Lesson 15: Locating Ordered Pairs on the Coordinate Plane | Unit 7Lesson 9: Sand Dollar SearchLesson 10: The A-maze-ing Coordinate PlaneLesson 11: Polygon Maker |
| Lesson 16: Symmetry in the Coordinate Plane. | |
| Lesson 17: Drawing the Coordinate Plane and Points on the Plane | Lesson 10: The A-maze-ing Coordinate Plane |
| Lesson 18: Distance on the Coordinate Plane | Unit 7Lesson 11: Polygon Maker |
| Lesson 19: Problem Solving and the Coordinate Plane | Unit 7Lesson 12: Graph Telephone (Print available)Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
Module 4: Expressions and Equations
| Topic A Relationships of the Operations | |
| Lesson 1: The Relationship of Addition and Subtraction | |
| Lesson 2: The Relationship of Multiplication and Division | |
| Lesson 3: The Relationship of Multiplication and Addition. | |
| Lesson 4: The Relationship of Division and Subtraction | |
| Topic B Special Notations of Operations | |
| Lesson 5: Exponents | Unit 6Lesson 10: PowersLesson 11: Exponent Expressions (Print available)Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Lesson 6: The Order of Operations | |
| Topic C Replacing Letters and Numbers | |
| Lesson 7: Replacing Letters with Numbers Lesson 8: Replacing Numbers with Letters | Unit 6Lesson 7: Border TilesLesson 12: Squares and Cubes |
| Topic D Expanding, Factoring, and Distributing Expressions | |
| Lesson 9: Writing Addition and Subtraction Expressions | Unit 6Lesson 6: Vari-applesLesson 8: Products and Sums [Free lesson]Lesson 9: Products, Sums, and Differences |
| Lesson 10: Writing and Expanding Multiplication Expressions Lesson 11: Factoring Expressions Lesson 12: Distributing Expressions | Unit 6Lesson 8: Products and Sums [Free lesson]Lesson 9: Products, Sums, and Differences |
| Lesson 13: Writing Division Expressions | |
| Lesson 14: Writing Division Expressions | |
| Topic E Expressing Operations in Algebraic Form | |
| Lesson 15: Read Expressions in Which Letters Stand for Numbers Lesson 16: Write Expressions in Which Letters Stand for Numbers Lesson 17: Write Expressions in Which Letters Stand for Numbers | Unit 6Lesson 6: Vari-applesLesson 7: Border Tiles |
| Topic F Writing and Evaluating Expressions and Formulas | |
| Lesson 18: Writing and Evaluating Expressions—Addition and Subtraction Lesson 19: Substituting to Evaluate Addition and Subtraction Expressions Lesson 20: Writing and Evaluating Expressions—Multiplication and Division Lesson 21: Writing and Evaluating Expressions—Multiplication and Addition | Unit 6Lesson 7: Border TilesLesson 8: Products and Sums [Free lesson]Lesson 9: Products, Sums, and DifferencesLesson 12: Squares and Cubes |
| Lesson 22: Writing and Evaluating Expressions—Exponents | Unit 6Lesson 10: PowersLesson 11: Exponent Expressions (Print available)Lesson 12: Squares and CubesPractice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Topic G Solving Equations | |
| Lesson 23: True and False Number Sentences Lesson 24: True and False Number Sentences | Unit 6Lesson 1: Weight for It [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 25: Finding Solutions to Make Equations True | Unit 6Lesson 1: Weight for It [Free lesson]Lesson 2: Five Equations |
| Lesson 26: One-Step Equations—Addition and Subtraction | Unit 6Lesson 1: Weight for It [Free lesson]Lesson 2: Five EquationsLesson 3: Hanging Around |
| Lesson 27: One-Step Equations—Multiplication and Division Lesson 28: Two-Step Problems—All Operations Lesson 29: Multi-Step Problems—All Operations | Unit 6Lesson 3: Hanging AroundLesson 4: Hanging It UpLesson 5: Swap and Solve |
| Topic H Applications of Equations | |
| Lesson 30: One-Step Problems in the Real World Lesson 31: Problems in Mathematical TermsLesson Lesson 32: Multi-Step Problems in the Real World | Unit 6Lesson 3: Hanging AroundLesson 4: Hanging It UpLesson 5: Swap and SolvePractice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Lesson 33: From Equations to Inequalities Lesson 34: Writing and Graphing Inequalities in Real-World Problems | Unit 7Lesson 6: Tunnel Travel [Free lesson]Lesson 7: Comparing WeightsLesson 8: Shira´s Solutions |
Module 5: Area, Surface Area, and Volume Problems
| Topic A: Area of Triangles, Quadrilaterals, and Polygons | |
| Lesson 1: The Area of Parallelograms Through Rectangle Facts | Unit 1Lesson 3: Exploring Parallelograms (Print available) [Free lesson]Lesson 4: Off the Grid |
| Lesson 2: The Area of Right Triangles Lesson 3: The Area of Acute Triangles Using Height and Base | Unit 1Lesson 5: Exploring Triangles (Print available)Lesson 6: Triangles and ParallelogramsLesson 7: Off the Grid, Part 2 |
| Lesson 4: The Area of All Triangles Using Height and Base | Unit 1Lesson 6: Triangles and ParallelogramsLesson 7: Off the Grid, Part 2 |
| Lesson 5: The Area of Polygons Through Composition and Decomposition | Unit 1Lesson 2: LettersLesson 8: Pile of PolygonsPractice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Lesson 6: Area in the Real World | |
| Topic B Polygons on the Coordinate Plane | |
| Lesson 7: Distance on the Coordinate Plane | Unit 1Lesson 8: Pile of Polygons |
| Lesson 8: Drawing Polygons in the Coordinate Plane | Unit 7Lesson 11: Polygon Maker |
| Lesson 9: Determining Perimeter and Area of Polygons on the Coordinate Plane | Unit 1Lesson 8: Pile of Polygons |
| Lesson 10: Distance, Perimeter, and Area in the Real World | |
| Topic C Volume of Right Rectangular Prisms | |
| Lesson 11: Volume with Fractional Edge Lengths and Unit Cubes | Unit 4Lesson 11: Classroom ComparisonsLesson 12: Puzzling Areas (Print available) [Free lesson]Lesson 13: Volume ChallengesLesson 14: Planter Planner (Print available) |
| Lesson 12: From Unit Cubes to the Formulas for Volume | |
| Lesson 13: The Formulas for Volume | |
| Lesson 14: Volume in the Real World | Unit 4Lesson 14: Planter Planner (Print available) |
| Topic D Nets and Surface Area | |
| Lesson 15: Representing Three-Dimensional Figures Using Nets Lesson 16: Constructing Nets Lesson 17: From Nets to Surface Area | Unit 1Lesson 10: Plenty of PolyhedraLesson 11: Nothing But Nets (Print available)Lesson 13: Take It To Go (Print available) |
| Lesson 18: Determining Surface Area of Three-Dimensional Figures | Unit 1Lesson 9: Renata´s Stickers [Free lesson]Lesson 10: Plenty of PolyhedraLesson 11: Nothing But Nets (Print available)Lesson 13: Take It To Go (Print available)Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Lesson 19: Surface Area and Volume in the Real World | |
| Lesson 19a: Addendum Lesson for Modeling―Applying Surface Area and Volume to Aquariums | |
| Lesson 3: The Area of Acute Triangles Using Height and Base | Unit 1Lesson 5 Exploring TrianglesLesson 6 Triangles and ParallelogramsLesson 7 Off the Grid, Part 2 |
Module 6: Statistics
| Topic A Understanding Distributions | |
| Lesson 1: Posing Statistical Questions | Unit 8 Lesson 1: Screen TimeLesson 2: Dot Plots |
| Lesson 2: Displaying a Data Distribution Lesson 3: Creating a Dot Plot | Unit 8 Lesson 2: Dot PlotsLesson 3: Minimum Wage (Print available) [Free lesson]Lesson 4: Lots More Dots |
| Lesson 4: Creating a Histogram Lesson 5: Describing a Distribution Displayed in a Histogram | Unit 8Lesson 5: The Plot Thickens [Free lesson]Lesson 6: DIY Histograms (Print available) |
| Topic B Summarizing a Distribution That Is Approximately Symmetric Using the Mean and Mean Absolute Deviation | |
| Lesson 6: Describing the Center of a Distribution Using the Mean Lesson 7: The Mean as a Balance Point | Unit 8Lesson 7: Snack Time |
| Lesson 8: Variability in a Data Distribution | Unit 8Lesson 8: Pop It! |
| Topic 9: The Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD). | Unit 8Lesson 9: Hoops |
| Lesson 10: Describing Distributions Using the Mean and MAD Lesson 11: Describing Distributions Using the Mean and MAD | Unit 8Lesson 10 Hollywood Part 1Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Topic C Summarizing a Distribution That Is Skewed Using the Median and the Interquartile Range | |
| Lesson 12: Describing the Center of a Distribution Using the Median | Unit 8Lesson 11: Toy Cars [Free lesson]Lesson 12: In the News |
| Lesson 13: Describing Variability Using the Interquartile Range (IQR) | Unit 8Lesson 13: Pumpkin Patch |
| Lesson 14: Summarizing a Distribution Using a Box Plot Lesson 15: More Practice with Box Plots | Unit 8Lesson 14: Car, Plane, Bus, or Train? (Print available) |
| Lesson 16: Understanding Box Plots | Unit 8Lesson 14: Car, Plane, Bus, or Train? (Print available)Lesson 15: Hollywood Part 2Lesson 16: Hollywood Part 3 (Print available)Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Topic D Summarizing and Describing Distributions | |
| Lesson 17: Developing a Statistical Project | |
| Lesson 18: Connecting Graphical Representations and Numerical Summaries | Unit 8Lesson 5: The Plot Thickens [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 19: Comparing Data Distributions | Unit 8Lesson 15: Hollywood Part 2 |
| Lesson 20: Describing Center, Variability, and Shape of a Data Distribution from a Graphical Representation Lesson 21: Summarizing a Data Distribution by Describing Center, Variability, and Shape | Unit 8Lesson 16: Hollywood Part 3 (Print available) |
| Lesson 22: Presenting a Summary of a Statistical Project | |
| Lesson 3: Creating a Dot Plot | Unit 8Lesson 2 Dot PlotsLesson 3 Minimum Wage [Free lesson]Lesson 4 Lots More Dots |
Grade 7
Module 1: Ratios and Proportional Relationships
Module 2: Rational Numbers
| Topic A Addition and Subtraction of Integers and Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 1: Opposite Quantities Combine to Make Zero | Unit 5 Lesson 1: Floats and Anchors [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 2: Using the Number Line to Model the Addition of Integers Lesson 3: Understanding Addition of Integers Lesson 4: Efficiently Adding Integers and Other Rational Numbers Lesson 5: Understanding Subtraction of Integers and Other Rational Numbers | Unit 5 Lesson 2: More Floats and Anchors Lesson 4: Draw Your Own (Print available) [Free lesson] Lesson 5: Number Puzzles Lesson 10: Integer Puzzles [Free lesson] Lesson 11: Changing Temperatures Lesson 13: Solar Panels and More (Print available) |
| Lesson 6: The Distance Between Two Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 7: Addition and Subtraction of Rational Numbers | Unit 5 Lesson 3: Bumpers Lesson 4: Draw Your Own (Print available) [Free lesson] Lesson 5: Number Puzzles Lesson 10; Integer Puzzles [Free lesson] Lesson 11: Changing Temperatures Lesson 13: Solar Panels and More (Print available) Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Lesson 8: Applying the Properties of Operations to Add and Subtract Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 9: Applying the Properties of Operations to Add and Subtract Rational Numbers | |
| Topic B Multiplication and Division of Integers and Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 10: Understanding Multiplication of Integers Lesson 11: Develop Rules for Multiplying Signed Numbers | Unit 5 Lesson 6: Floating in Groups Lesson 7: Back in Time Lesson 8: Speeding Turtles Lesson 10: Integer Puzzles [Free lesson] Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Lesson 12: Division of Integers | Unit 5 Lesson 8: Speeding Turtles |
| Lesson 13: Converting Between Fractions and Decimals Using Equivalent Fractions | |
| Lesson 14: Converting Rational Numbers to Decimals Using Long Division | Unit 4 Lesson 13: Decimal Deep Dive (Print available) |
| Lesson 15: Multiplication and Division of Rational Numbers | Unit 5 Lesson 8: Speeding Turtles Lesson 10: Integer Puzzles [Free lesson] Lesson 12: Arctic Sea Ice (Print available) Lesson 13: Solar Panels and More (Print available) Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Lesson 16: Applying the Properties of Operations to Multiply and Divide Rational Numbers | |
| Topic C Applying Operations with Rational Numbers to Expressions and Equations | |
| Lesson 17: Comparing Tape Diagram Solutions to Algebraic Solutions | Unit 6 Lesson 2: Smudged Receipts Lesson 3: Equations Lesson 4: Seeing Structure (Print available) |
| Lesson 18: Writing, Evaluating, and Finding Equivalent Expressions with Rational Numbers Lesson 19: Writing, Evaluating, and Finding Equivalent Expressions with Rational Numbers | Unit 5 Lesson 9 Expressions |
| Lesson 20: Investments—Performing Operations with Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 21: If-Then Moves with Integer Number Cards | |
| Lesson 22: Solving Equations Using Algebra Lesson 23: Solving Equations Using Algebra | Unit 6 Lesson 3: Equations Lesson 4: Seeing Structure (Print available) Lesson 6: Balancing Equations Lesson 7: Keeping It True (Print available) Lesson 12: Community Day (Print available) Unit 5 Lesson 3: Bumpers |
Module 3: Expressions and Equations
Module 4: Percent and Proportional Relationships
Module 5: Statistics and Probability
| Topic A Calculating and Interpreting Probabilities | |
| Lesson 1: Chance Experiments | Unit 8Lesson 1: How Likely? (Print available) [Free lesson]Lesson 2: Prob-bear-bilities [Free lesson]Lesson 3: Mystery Bag |
| Lesson 2: Estimating Probabilities by Collecting Data Lesson 3: Chance Experiments with Equally Likely Outcomes Lesson 4: Calculating Probabilities for Chance Experiments with Equally Likely Outcomes | Unit 8Lesson 3: Mystery BagLesson 4: Spin ClassLesson 5: Is It Fair?Lesson 6: Fair Games |
| Lesson 5: Chance Experiments with Outcomes That Are Not Equally Likely | Unit 8Lesson 4: Spin ClassLesson 5: Is It Fair?Lesson 6: Fair GamesLesson 7: Weather or Not |
| Lesson 6: Using Tree Diagrams to Represent a Sample Space and to Calculate Probabilities | Unit 8Lesson 6: Fair GamesLesson 7: Weather or Not |
| Lesson 7: Calculating Probabilities of Compound Events | Unit 8Lesson 8: Simulate It! (Print available)Lesson 9: Car, Bike, or Train? (Print available)Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Topic B Estimating Probabilities | |
| Lesson 8: The Difference Between Theoretical Probabilities and Estimated Probabilities Lesson 9: Comparing Estimated Probabilities to Probabilities Predicted by a Model | Unit 8Lesson 6: Fair GamesLesson 7: Weather or NotLesson 8: Simulate It! (Print available)Lesson 9: Car, Bike, or Train? (Print available) |
| Lesson 10: Conducting a Simulation to Estimate the Probability of an Event | Unit 8Lesson 7: Weather or NotLesson 8: Simulate It! (Print available)Lesson 9: Car, Bike, or Train? (Print available) |
| Lesson 11: Conducting a Simulation to Estimate the Probability of an Event Lesson 12: Applying Probability to Make Informed Decisions | Unit 8Lesson 7: Weather or NotLesson 8: Simulate It! (Print available) |
| Topic C Random Sampling and Estimating Population Characteristics | |
| Lesson 13: Populations, Samples, and Generalizing from a Sample to a Population | Unit 8Lesson 9: Car, Bike, or Train? (Print available)Lesson 10: Crab Island [Free lesson]Lesson 11: HeadlinesLesson 12: Flower Power |
| Lesson 14: Selecting a Sample Lesson 15: Random Sampling Lesson 16: Methods for Selecting a Random Sample | Unit 8Lesson 10: Crab Island [Free lesson]Lesson 11: Headlines |
| Lesson 17: Sampling Variability | Unit 8Lesson 9: Car, Bike, or Train? (Print available)Lesson 13: Plots and Samples |
| Lesson 18: Sampling Variability and the Effect of Sample Size Lesson 19: Understanding Variability When Estimating a Population Proportion | Unit 8Lesson 9: Car, Bike, or Train? (Print available)Lesson 13: Plots and SamplesLesson 14: School Newspaper (Print available) |
| Lesson 20: Estimating a Population Proportion | |
| Topic D Comparing Populations | |
| Lesson 21: Why Worry About Sampling Variability? | Unit 8Lesson 9: Car, Bike, or Train? (Print available)Lesson 13: Plots and SamplesLesson 14: School Newspaper (Print available) |
| Lesson 22: Using Sample Data to Compare the Means of Two or More Populations Lesson 23: Using Sample Data to Compare the Means of Two or More Populations | Unit 8Lesson 9: Car, Bike, or Train? (Print available)Lesson 10: Crab Island [Free lesson]Lesson 13: Plots and SamplesLesson 14: School Newspaper (Print available)Lesson 15: Asthma Rates (Print available) |
Module 6: Geometry
| Topic A Unknown Angles | |
| Lesson 1: Complementary and Supplementary Angles | Unit 7Lesson 2: Friendly Angles [Free lesson]Lesson 3: Angle Diagrams |
| Lesson 2: Solving for Unknown Angles Using Equations Lesson 3: Solving for Unknown Angles Using Equations Lesson 4: Solving for Unknown Angles Using Equations | Unit 7Lesson 1: PinwheelsLesson 2: Friendly AnglesLesson 3: Angle DiagramsLesson 4: Missing Measures (Print available) [Free lesson] |
| Topic B Constructing Triangles | |
| Lesson 5: Identical Triangles | Unit 7Lesson 6: Is It Enough?Lesson 7: More Than One |
| Lesson 6: Drawing Geometric Shapes | Unit 7Lesson 6: Is It Enough?Lesson 7: More Than OneLesson 8: Can You Draw It? (Print available) |
| Lesson 7: Drawing Parallelograms | |
| Lesson 8: Drawing Triangles | Unit 7Lesson 5: Can You Build It? [Free lesson]Lesson 6: Is It Enough?Lesson 7: More Than OneLesson 8: Can You Draw It? (Print available)Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Lesson 9: Conditions for a Unique Triangle―Three Sides and Two Sides and the Included Lesson 10: Conditions for a Unique Triangle—Two Angles and a Given Side Angle | Unit 7Lesson 8: Can You Draw It? (Print available) |
| Lesson 11: Conditions on Measurements That Determine a Triangle | Unit 7Lesson 5: Can You Build It? [Free lesson]Lesson 6: Is It Enough?Lesson 7: More Than OneLesson 8: Can You Draw It? (Print available)Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Lesson 12: Unique Triangles―Two Sides and a Non-Included Angle | |
| Lesson 13: Checking for Identical Triangles Lesson 14: Checking for Identical Triangles | Unit 7Lesson 6: Is It Enough?Lesson 7: More Than OnePractice Day 1 |
| Lesson 15: Using Unique Triangles to Solve Real-World and Mathematical Problems | |
| Topic C Slicing Solids | |
| Lesson 16: Slicing a Right Rectangular Prism with a Plane Lesson 17: Slicing a Right Rectangular Pyramid with a Plane Lesson 18: Slicing on an Angle | Unit 7Lesson 9: Slicing Solids |
| Lesson 19: Understanding Three-Dimensional Figures | |
| Topic D Problems Involving Area and Surface Area | |
| Lesson 20: Real-World Area Problems | Unit 3Lesson 5: Area Strategies |
| Lesson 21: Mathematical Area Problems | Unit 3Lesson 5: Area StrategiesLesson 6: Radius Squares (Print available) |
| Lesson 22: Area Problems with Circular Regions | Unit 3Lesson 5: Area StrategiesLesson 8: Area Challenges [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 23: Surface Area Lesson 24: Surface Area | Unit 7Lesson 12: Surface Area Strategies (Print available)Lesson 13: Popcorn Possibilities |
| Topic E Problems Involving Volume | |
| Lesson 25: Volume of Right Prisms | Unit 7Lesson 10: Simple PrismsLesson 11: More Complicated PrismsLesson 13: Popcorn Possibilities |
| Lesson 26: Volume of Composite Three-Dimensional Objects | Unit 7Lesson 11: More Complicated Prisms |
| Lesson 27: Real-World Volume Problems | Unit 7Lesson 13: Popcorn Possibilities |
Grade 8
Module 1: Integer Exponents and Scientific Notation
| Eureka Math | Desmos Math 6–A1 |
| Topic A Exponential Notation and Properties of Integer Exponents | |
| Lesson 1: Exponential Notation | Unit 7 Lesson 1 Circles [Free lesson]Lesson 2 Combining Exponents |
| Lesson 2: Multiplication of Numbers in Exponential Form Lesson 3: Numbers in Exponential Form Raised to a Power | Unit 7 Lesson 2 Combining ExponentsLesson 3 Power Pairs (Print available) [Free lesson]Lesson 4 Rewriting Powers |
| Lesson 4: Numbers Raised to the Zeroth Power Lesson 5: Negative Exponents and the Laws of Exponents | Unit 7 Lesson 5 Zero and Negative ExponentsLesson 6 Write a Rule (Print available)Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Lesson 6: Proofs of Laws of Exponents | |
| Topic B Magnitude and Scientific Notation | |
| Lesson 7: Magnitude | Unit 7 Lesson 7 Scales and Weights |
| Lesson 8: Estimating Quantities | Unit 7 Lesson 7: Scales and WeightsLesson 8: Point ZapperLesson 9: Use Your Powers |
| Lesson 9: Scientific Notation Lesson 10: Operations with Numbers in Scientific Notation | Unit 7 Lesson 10: Solar System [Free lesson]Lesson 11: Balance the Scales [Free lesson]Lesson 13: Star Power |
| Lesson 11: Efficacy of Scientific Notation | Unit 7 Lesson 13: Star Power |
| Lesson 12: Choice of Unit | |
| Lesson 13: Comparison of Numbers Written in Scientific Notation and Interpreting Scientific Notation Using Technology | Unit 7 Lesson 13: Star Power Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
Module 2: The Concept of Congruence
| Topic A Definitions and Properties of the Basic Rigid Motions | |
| Lesson 1: Why Move Things Around? Lesson 2: Definition of Translation and Three Basic Properties | Unit 1Lesson 1: Transformers [Free lesson]Lesson 2: Spinning, Flipping, Sliding [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 3: Translating Lines | Unit 1Lesson 1: Transformers [Free lesson]Lesson 2: Spinning, Flipping, Sliding [Free lesson] Unit 3Lesson 6: Translations |
| Lesson 4: Definition of Reflection and Basic Properties Lesson 5: Definition of Rotation and Basic Properties Lesson 6: Rotations of 180 Degrees | Unit 1Lesson 1: Transformers [Free lesson]Lesson 2: Spinning, Flipping, Sliding [Free lesson]Lesson 4: Moving Day (Print available) [Free lesson]Lesson 5: Getting Coordinated |
| Topic B Sequencing the Basic Rigid Motions | |
| Lesson 7: Sequencing Translations Lesson 8: Sequencing Reflections and Translations | Unit 1Lesson 3: Transformation GolfLesson 6: Connecting the Dots [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 9: Sequencing Rotations Lesson 10: Sequences of Rigid Motions | Unit 1Lesson 3: Transformation GolfLesson 6: Connecting the Dots [Free lesson]Lesson 13: Tessellate [Free lesson]Practice Day |
| Topic C Congruence and Angle Relationships | |
| Lesson 11: Definition of Congruence and Some Basic Properties | Unit 1 Lesson 7: Are They the Same?Lesson 8: No Bending, No StretchingLesson 9: Are They Congruent?Practice Day |
| Lesson 12: Angles Associated with Parallel Lines | Unit 1 Lesson 10: Transforming Angles |
| Lesson 13: Angle Sum of a Triangle | Unit 1 Lesson 11: Tearing It Up (Print available) |
| Lesson 14: More on the Angles of a Triangle | Unit 1 Lesson 11: Tearing It Up (Print available)Lesson 12: Puzzling It Out [Free lesson] |
| Topic D: The Pythagorean Theorem | |
| Lesson 15: Informal Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem | Unit 8Lesson 7: Pictures to Prove It |
| Lesson 16: Applications of the Pythagorean Theorem | Unit 8Lesson 10: Taco TruckPractice Day 2 (Print available) |
Module 3: Similarity
Module 4: Linear Equations
Module 5: Examples of Functions from Geometry
Module 6: Linear Functions
Module 7: Introduction to Irrational Numbers Using Geometry
| Topic A Square and Cube Roots | |
| Lesson 1: The Pythagorean Theorem | Unit 8 Lesson 6: The Pythagorean Theorem |
| Lesson 2: Square Roots | Unit 8 Lesson 2: From Squares to Roots Lesson 3: Between Squares Lesson 4: Root Down [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 3: Existence and Uniqueness of Square Roots and Cube Roots | Unit 8 Lesson 5: Filling Cubes |
| Lesson 4: Simplifying Square Roots | Unit 8 Lesson 2: From Squares to Roots Lesson 3: Between Squares Lesson 4: Root Down [Free lesson] Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Lesson 5: Solving Equations with Radicals | |
| Topic B Decimal Expansions of Numbers | |
| Lesson 6: Finite and Infinite Decimals Lesson 7: Infinite Decimals Lesson 8: The Long Division Algorithm Lesson 9: Decimal Expansions of Fractions, Part 1 Lesson 10: Converting Repeating Decimals to Fractions | Unit 8 Lesson 12: Fractions to Decimals Lesson 13: Decimals to Fractions |
| Lesson 11: The Decimal Expansion of Some Irrational Numbers | |
| Lesson 12: Decimal Expansions of Fractions, Part 2 | |
| Lesson 13: Comparing Irrational Numbers | Unit 8 Lesson 14: Hit the Target |
| Lesson 14: Decimal Expansion of π | |
| Topic C The Pythagorean Theorem | |
| Lesson 15: Pythagorean Theorem, Revisited | Unit 8 Lesson 6: The Pythagorean Theorem Lesson 7: Pictures to Prove It |
| Lesson 16: Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem | Unit 8 Lesson 9: Make It Right |
| Lesson 17: Distance on the Coordinate Plane | Unit 8 Lesson 11: Pond Hopper |
| Lesson 18: Applications of the Pythagorean Theorem | Unit 8 Lesson 10: Taco Truck [Free lesson] Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Topic D Applications of Radicals and Roots | |
| Lesson 19: Cones and Spheres | |
| Lesson 20: Truncated Cones | |
| Lesson 21: Volume of Composite Solids | |
| Lesson 22: Average Rate of Change | |
| Lesson 23: Nonlinear Motion |
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- Use technology or any automated system, such as scripts or bots, to collect user names, passwords, e-mail addresses or any other data from or through the Site, or to circumvent or modify any security technology or software that is part of the Site.
- Send or cause to send (directly or indirectly) unsolicited bulk messages or other unsolicited bulk communications of any kind through the Site. If you do so, you acknowledge you will have caused substantial harm to Company, and that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to measure. As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay to Company $50.00 for each actual or intended recipient of such communication.
- Modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Site.
- Solicit, collect or request any information for commercial or unlawful purposes.
- Post, upload or otherwise transmit an image or video of another person without that person’s consent.
- Use the Site to advertise, promote or engage in any commercial activity (including engaging in sales, contests or sweepstakes) without Company’s prior written consent.
- Frame or mirror the Site without Company’s express prior written consent.
- Use the Site in a manner inconsistent with any applicable law, rule or regulation.
- Use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application or other manual or automatic device to retrieve, index, “scrape,” “data mine,” or in any way gather content of the Site or reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site without Company’s express prior written consent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Company grants to the operators of public search engines the permission to use spiders to copy material from the Site for the sole purpose of, and solely to the extent necessary for, creating publicly-available searchable indices of such material, but not caches or archives of such material. Company reserves the right to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific cases.
- Attempt, facilitate or encourage others to do any of the foregoing.
Company reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in Company’s discretion, violates this Agreement or attempts to do so, including terminating or suspending a user’s Account or access to or use of the Site, or reporting any User Content or conduct to law enforcement authorities.
You (and not Company) are responsible for obtaining and maintaining all telecommunications, broadband and computer hardware, equipment and services needed to access and use the Site, and for paying all charges related thereto.
User disputes
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of the Site, providers of Third Party Services (as defined below) or any other third parties with whom you interact on, through or in connection with the Site.
Purchases
Company may make available products and services for purchase through the Site, and may use third-party suppliers and service providers to enable e-commerce functionality on the Site. You may only purchase products and services that appear on the Site and that are delivered to an address located in the United States. You may only purchase products and services for personal, non-commercial use by you, your educational institution or students of your educational institution. We may limit quantities or refuse any order for any reason or no reason, including if we have reasonable cause to believe an order is for onward sale or resale other than through distribution channels approved by us. We make no promise that products or services available on the Site are appropriate or available for use in locations outside the United States, and purchasing products or services for delivery to or use in territories where their contents are unlawful is prohibited. If you choose to purchase products or services from locations outside the United States, you do so at your own risk. It is your responsibility to ascertain and obey all applicable local, state, federal and international laws (including minimum age requirements) in regard to the possession, use and sale of any product or service made available through the Site.
If you wish to purchase any product or service made available through the Site, you may be asked to supply certain information relevant to your transaction, including your credit card number, the expiration date of your credit card, your billing address and your shipping information. YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO USE ANY CREDIT CARD(S) USED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSACTION. By submitting such information, you grant to Company the right to provide such information to third parties for purposes of facilitating the completion of transactions initiated by you or on your behalf. Verification of information may be required prior to the acknowledgement or completion of any transaction. While it is our practice to confirm orders by e-mail, the receipt of an e-mail order confirmation does not constitute our acceptance of an order or our confirmation of an offer to sell a product or service.
Details of the products and services available for purchase are set forth on the Site. All prices are displayed exclusive of all taxes and shipping/freight charges. Available payment methods, methods of shipping and shipping charges (including charges for expedited shipping, if available) are detailed on the Site. Company may also collect and remit sales tax on your purchase as required by United States law. If you are a tax-exempt entity, please enter the appropriate information where requested on your order form and we will not collect sales tax on your purchase.
Generally, credit and debit cards are not charged until we either ship the product(s) or confirm store availability (at which time you will be charged only for the products we have actually shipped along with any applicable taxes and shipping charges). However, we may pre-authorize your order amount with your credit or debit card issuer at the time you place the order, which may have an effect on your available credit line. When paying for a preorder with a debit card, you will be charged at the time you place your preorder. Please contact your credit or debit card issuer for more information. If you ordered a special delivery product, you will be charged once a delivery time is confirmed. For digitally delivered orders, your credit or debit card will be charged at the time that you initiate the download of the product.
All purchases made through the Site are made pursuant to a shipment contract. As a result, risk of loss and title for products purchased through the Site pass to you upon delivery of the products to the carrier. You are responsible for filing any claims with carriers for damaged and/or lost shipments. Please note that all shipping addresses must be compliant with the shipping restrictions contained on the Site.
Products, services and specifications
All products and services described or depicted on the Site, and all related features, content, specifications and prices, are subject to change at any time without notice. Certain weights, measures and similar descriptions are approximate and are provided for convenience purposes only. Packaging may vary from that shown. We make reasonable efforts to accurately display the attributes of our products, including the applicable colors; however, the actual color you see will depend on your computer system, and we cannot guarantee that your computer will accurately display such colors. The inclusion of any product or service on the Site at a particular time does not imply or warrant that such product or service will be available at any time. Occasionally, the manufacture or distribution of a certain product or service may be delayed for a number of reasons. In such event, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the delay and keep you informed of the revised delivery schedule. By placing an order, you represent that the products and services ordered will be used only in a lawful manner. All DVDs and similar products are sold for private, non-commercial home use (where no admission fee is charged), non-public performance, or classroom or instructional use only, and may not be duplicated.
Return and exchange policy
Unless otherwise specified in the terms associated with a particular product, you may return or exchange any product purchased through the Site within fourteen (14) days of receipt, by calling our customer service hotline, 1–800–823–1969, in the event that the purchased product is defective or you received the wrong product. Except for the foregoing, you may not return, cancel or exchange any product or service. Certain jurisdictions may provide additional statutory rights. Nothing herein is meant to limit your return or cancellation rights under local law. In the event that a return or exchange is due to an incorrect order or faulty product, we will be responsible for the shipping costs associated with such return. We will ship a replacement product upon receiving your defective or incorrect product and verifying the reason for the return or exchange.
Accuracy of information
We attempt to ensure that information on the Site is complete, accurate and current. Despite our efforts, the information on the Site may occasionally be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date. We make no representation as to the completeness, accuracy or currency of any information on the Site. For example, products or services included on the Site may be unavailable, may have different attributes than those listed, or may carry a different price than that stated on the Site. If an item’s correct price is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation. Items in your “Shopping Bag” reflect the current price displayed on the item’s product detail page. Please note that this price may differ from the price displayed when the item was first placed in your Shopping Bag. In addition, we may make changes in information about price and availability without notice.
Chemicals, agricultural materials, and other hazardous materials
Certain products made available through the Site may include chemicals, agricultural materials or other material that may be subject to regulations or restrictions with respect to import or export, or to whom we may sell such material or where or how such material may be used. It is your responsibility to read and abide by all warning notices that accompany any products that you purchase. In addition, we reserve the right to request additional information from you, verify your identity, limit sales to certified educational or research institutions, or cancel or delay your order if required by law or if we believe it is necessary or advisable. Due to special shipping and handling requirements, freight companies routinely impose a surcharge on each package of hazardous material shipped. In such event, we will add such surcharge to your order.
Registration and account security
You may have the ability to create an account on or through the Site (an “Account”). If you submit registration information to create an Account, you represent and warrant that all information submitted to Company in connection with such registration is complete and accurate, and that you will update such information if it changes. If you create an Account, you are responsible for all use of your Account, and for maintaining the confidentiality of the information used to access your Account (including user name and password). You agree not to share your user name or password with anyone, or use anyone else’s Account at any time. You agree to notify Company immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of, or access to, your Account (including your user name and password). You acknowledge that the reuse of your password in connection with accounts on other websites increases the risk that the security of your Account may be compromised.
Third party links and services
The Site may make available, or third parties may provide, links to other websites, applications, resources, advertisements, Content or other products or services created, hosted or made available by third parties (“Third Party Services”), and such third party may use other third parties to provide portions of the Third Party Service to you, such as technology, development or payment services. When you access or use a Third Party Service, you are interacting with the applicable third party, not with Company, and you do so at your own risk. Company is not responsible for and makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the Third Party Services or the providers of such Third Party Services (including the accuracy or completeness of the information provided by such Third Party Service or the privacy practices of any third party). Inclusion of any Third Party Service or a link thereto on the Site does not imply approval or endorsement of such Third Party Service. Company is not responsible or liable for the content or practices of any Third Party Service or third party, even if such Third Party Service links to or is linked by the Site, and even if such Third Party Service is operated by an affiliate of Company or a company otherwise connected with us or the Site
Feedback
Unless we expressly agree otherwise in writing, if you provide us with any ideas, proposals, suggestions or materials (“Feedback”), whether related to the Site or otherwise, you hereby acknowledge and agree that (a) your provision of any Input is gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction and does not place Company under any fiduciary or other obligation; and (b) any Feedback is not confidential and Company has no confidentiality obligations with respect to such Feedback.. You hereby grant to us a world-wide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable and fully sublicensable (through multiple tiers) license, without additional consideration to you or any third party, to reproduce, distribute, perform and display (publicly or otherwise), adapt, modify and otherwise use and exploit such Feedback, in any format or media now known or hereafter developed, and you hereby represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights to grant the foregoing license. We may use Feedback for any purpose whatsoever without permission or notice, compensation or attribution to you or any third party. You are and remain responsible and liable for the content of any Feedback.
Privacy
Please review the Privacy Policy for the Site, available at http://www.amplify.com/privacy, to learn about our information collection, usage and disclosures practices with respect to information collected by us through the Site. Please note that certain products or services made available by us, other than the Site, may be subject to different privacy policies. In addition, the Site’s Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible or liable for, the information collection, usage and disclosures practices of any third party or Third Party Service.
Disclaimers
THE SITE, USER CONTENT, THIRD PARTY SERVICES, AND ALL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES SOLD THROUGH THE SITE (COLLECTIVELY, THE “SITE PRODUCTS”) ARE MADE AVAILABLE “AS-IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” AND COMPANY DOES NOT GUARANTEE OR PROMISE ANY SPECIFIC RESULTS FROM USE OF THE SITE PRODUCTS. COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN PARTICULAR, COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT THE SITE OR USER CONTENT OR THIRD PARTY SERVICES, OR YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE THEREOF, WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, ERROR-FREE, ACCURATE OR RELIABLE. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENCES OF ANY UNAUTHORIZED USE OF THE SITE PRODUCTS THAT VIOLATES ANY APPLICABLE LAW OR REGULATION. CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.
Under no circumstances will Company or its affiliates be responsible for any loss or damage, including property damage, personal injury or death, resulting from use of the Site, Products, problems or technical malfunction in connection with use of the Site, Products, attendance at any Company event or the conduct of any Site users, whether online or offline. Your use of the Site, Products is solely your responsibility and at your own risk. The User Content and Third Party Services do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Company or its affiliates.
Limitations on liability
IN NO EVENT WILL COMPANY OR ITS AFFILIATES BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT DAMAGES, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SITE PRODUCTS, EVEN IF COMPANY OR ONE OF ITS AFFILIATES HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO COMPANY FOR THE SITE PRODUCTS.
Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Company, its affiliates, subcontractors and other partners, and each of their respective officers, agents, partners and employees, from any losses, costs, expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), liabilities, claims or demands, due to or arising out of your use of the Site, your breach or alleged breach of this Agreement, your violation or alleged violation of any rights of another, or any Content that you post or otherwise submit on, through or in connection with the Site.
Termination
This Agreement remains in full force and effect while you access or use the Site. If you create an Account, you may terminate your Account at any time, for any reason, by contacting us at general@amplify.com. Company may terminate or suspend your Account and/or your access to or use of the Site at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice or explanation, and without liability. Upon any such suspension or termination, your right to access and use the Site will immediately cease, and Company may immediately deactivate or delete your Account and all files and other information associated with it, and/or bar any further access to such files and other information. Company shall not be liable to you or any third party for any suspension or termination of your Account or of access to or use of the Site or any such files or other information, and shall not be required to make such files and other information available to you after any such suspension or termination. Sections 2, 5, 13, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 26 shall survive any expiration or termination of this Agreement.
U.S. export controls
All software made available in connection with the Site (“Software”) may be subject to United States export controls. No Software may be downloaded from or through the Site or otherwise exported or re-exported in violation of U.S. export laws.
Governing law
The terms of this Agreement are governed by the laws of the State of New York, U.S.A., without regard to its conflicts of law provisions, and regardless of your location.
Arbitration
EXCEPT FOR DISPUTES THAT QUALIFY FOR SMALL CLAIMS COURT, ALL DISPUTES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, STATUTE, FRAUD, MISREPRESENTATION OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, WILL BE RESOLVED THROUGH FINAL AND BINDING ARBITRATION BEFORE A NEUTRAL ARBITRATOR INSTEAD OF IN A COURT BY A JUDGE OR JURY, AND YOU AGREE THAT COMPANY AND YOU ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY A JURY. YOU AGREE THAT ANY ARBITRATION UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL TAKE PLACE ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS; CLASS ARBITRATIONS AND CLASS ACTIONS ARE NOT PERMITTED AND YOU ARE AGREEING TO GIVE UP THE ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION.
Arbitration procedure
Any arbitration under Section 23 above will be administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules and Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes (“Supplementary Procedures”), as amended by this Agreement. The Supplementary Procedures are available online at http://www.adr.org/aaa/ShowPDF?doc=ADRSTG_015820. The arbitrator will conduct hearings, if any, by teleconference or videoconference, rather than by personal appearances, unless the arbitrator determines upon request by you or by us that an in-person hearing is appropriate. Any in-person appearances will be held at a location which is reasonably convenient to both parties with due consideration of their ability to travel and other pertinent circumstances. If the parties are unable to agree on a location, such determination should be made by the AAA or by the arbitrator. The arbitrator’s decision will follow the terms of this Agreement and will be final and binding. The arbitrator will have authority to award temporary, interim or permanent injunctive relief or relief providing for specific performance of this Agreement, but only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by the individual claim before the arbitrator. The award rendered by the arbitrator may be confirmed and enforced in any court having jurisdiction thereof. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement will preclude you from bringing issues to the attention of federal, state, or local agencies, and, if the law allows, they can seek relief against us for you.
Employment opportunities
Company may, from time to time, post Company employment opportunities on the Site and/or invite users to submit resumes to Company. If you choose to submit your name, contact information, resume and/or other personal information to Company in response to such employment listings, you are authorizing Company to use this information for all lawful and legitimate hiring, employment and other business purposes. Company also reserves the right, at its discretion, to forward such information to Company’s affiliates for their legitimate business purposes. Nothing in this Agreement or contained on the Site will constitute a promise by Company to review any such information, or to contact, interview, hire or employ any individual who submits such information.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (“DMCA”) provides recourse for copyright owners who believe that material appearing on the Internet infringes their rights under U.S. copyright law. If you believe that any material residing on or linked to from the Site infringes your copyright, please send (or have your agent send) to Company’s Copyright Agent a notification of claimed infringement with all of the following information: (a) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works; (b) identification of the claimed infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material on the Site (such as the URL(s) of the claimed infringing material); (c) information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an e-mail address; (d) a statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, the copyright owner’s agent or the law; (e) a statement by you that the above information in your notification is accurate and a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed or are authorized to act on such owner’s behalf; and (f) your physical or electronic signature. Company’s Copyright Agent for notification of claimed infringement can be reached as follows: Copyright Agent, Amplify Education, Inc., 55 Washington Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201; Facsimile: 212-796-2311; Attn: Legal. Company’s Copyright Agent for notification of claimed infringement can also be reached electronically at: legal@amplify.com. Company reserves the right to terminate infringers’ and suspected infringers’ Accounts or their access to or use of the Site.
Notice for California residents
Under California Civil Code Section 1789.3, California users are entitled to the following consumer rights notice: If you have a question or complaint regarding the Site, please contact us by writing to Amplify Education, Inc., 55 Washington Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 or by calling us at 212–213–8177 or sending a fax to 212–796–2311. California residents may reach the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs by mail at 1625 North Market Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (916) 445–1254 or (800) 952–5210.
Other terms
This Agreement does not, and shall not be construed to, create any partnership, joint venture, employer-employee, agency or franchisor-franchisee relationship between you and Company. You may not assign, transfer or sublicense any or all of your rights or obligations under this Agreement without our express prior written consent. We may assign, transfer or sublicense any or all of our rights or obligations under this Agreement without restriction. The failure of Company to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement will not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The Section titles in this Agreement are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. References to and mentions of the word “include,” “includes,” “including,” or “e.g.” will mean “including, without limitation.” References to “discretion” will mean “sole discretion.” This Agreement operates to the fullest extent permissible by law. If any provision of this Agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision is deemed severable from this Agreement and does not affect the validity or enforceability of any remaining provisions. Without limitation, you agree that a printed version of this Agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this Agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. Company will not be responsible for failures to fulfill any obligations due to causes beyond its control.
Please contact us at legal@amplify.com with any questions regarding this Agreement.
Website Privacy Policy
Last Modified: February 2026
Update: February 2, 2026: This Privacy Policy has been updated to address additional rights for individuals in the European Union/UK.
Below is the Website Privacy Policy for the amplify.com site (“Privacy Policy”). For purposes of clarity and as further outlined below, this Privacy Policy does not apply to student data. You can visit this page to read about the principles and policy governing student data collected and maintained on behalf of our school customers.
We advise you to read this Privacy Policy in its entirety, including the jurisdiction-specific provisions in the appendix. Our Notice at Collection for California Residents is available in the Notice for our California Customers.
Who We Are / What This Privacy Policy Covers
Amplify Education, Inc. (“Amplify”) recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we may collect through your use of this website (the “Site”).
This Privacy Policy does not apply to Amplify’s handling of:
- student data or other information collected from users of Amplify’s products that support classroom instruction and learning, which are governed by our Customer Privacy Policy.
- staff or applicant data that we process in accordance with our staff or applicant privacy notice, respectively.
If you have any question as to what legal agreement or privacy policy controls the collection and use of your information, please contact us using information below in the Contact Us section.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to our Website Terms of Use, which governs your use of the Site.
Our Role: We are the controller of all personal information (as defined below) that we receive through our Site and can be reached by email at privacy@amplify.com or by mail at Amplify Education, Inc., 55 Washington St.#800, Brooklyn, NY, 11201.
1. What personal information do we collect?
When you visit and / or interact with our Site, we may collect the following information about you that, alone or in combination, could be used to identify you or your device (“personal information”):
- Contact Information, such as name, district / school name, professional affiliation, title / role, email address, shipping address, address and phone number.
- Account Information, such as customer user login and password.
- Demographic Information, such as age and gender.
- Information You Submit, such as information voluntarily provided on message boards, feedback sections, and other public areas of the Site.
- Site Activity Information, which is collected when you access and interact with the Site, we and our Service Providers (as defined below) may collect certain information about those visits. For example, we or our Service Providers may receive and record information about your computer and browser, including your IP address, browser type, and other software or hardware information. If you access the Site from a mobile or other device, we may collect a unique device identifier assigned to that device, or other characteristics of the device hardware, operating system and configurations for that device. On certain pages of the Site, we may use third party tools to help us look at mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, data or text entered, and the pages you visit.
- Location Information, such as state, country and / or zip code, which we use to help us customize your experience, as well as to help us facilitate your privacy rights.
- Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information: such as customer service interactions, call recordings, chat transcripts, files you attach, and email, text, or other correspondence.
If you make a purchase through our online store, you may provide payment and other information directly to our third party e-commerce platform to complete your purchase.
We ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any government identifiers (such as social security numbers) or information related to racial or ethnic origin, health, or criminal background on or through the Site or otherwise.
2. Where/How do we collect personal information?
Amplify may collect personal information directly from you at various points, including the following:
- Product Information and Newsletters. When you submit a request to obtain information about our products, services or other informational material or subscribe to one of our newsletters, you may be asked to submit information such as name, professional affiliation, email address, company name, address and phone and details on your query or interests in our products and services. This information is collected to help us process your request.
- Customer Support. When you submit a form to contact our customer service, you may be asked to submit information such as name, e-mail, district, customer user login and password and details on your query. In addition, some features of our Site, such as our customer live chat functionality or other customer service systems may allow you to voluntarily provide personal information to us. This information is collected to help us process your request. Please only provide what is needed to facilitate the support request.
- Product Orders. If you use e-commerce areas of our Site to order our products, we request information from you on our order form. To purchase products through the Site, you must provide contact information (such as name and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. We will also use this information to contact you to confirm your order or to inform you of any issues or delays.
- Registration. You may be asked to submit information to use certain parts of the Site (such as posting comments on certain areas of the Site), register for an event or webinar, or view restricted content that may be available on the Site. For instance, you may be asked to provide your name, email address and event or webinar-related preferences to help us process your registration or content request.
- Public Areas and Discussion Forums. Any information you share in public areas, such as message boards or feedback sections, becomes public. Please be careful about what you disclose and do not post any personal information that you expect to keep private.
- Contests and Sweepstakes. When we run a contest or sweepstakes relating to the Site or Amplify, it will be accompanied by a set of rules. The rules for each contest/sweepstakes will specify how the information gathered from you for your entry will be used and disclosed.
As you visit or use our Site, we may collect Site activity information through cookies and similar technologies.
- Cookies, Pixels, and Other Tracking Technologies. Cookies and other tracking technologies (such as pixels, beacons, and Adobe Flash technology) are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They allow the website or mobile app to remember your actions and preferences over a period of time. We use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies – These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Site. These cookies are not generally stored beyond the browser session and are less likely to include personal information. This category of cookies cannot be disabled.
- Functionality Cookies – We use these cookies so that we recognize you on our Site and remember your previously selected preferences. These cookies are stored on your device between browsing sessions but expire after a pre-defined period. These cookies enable our Site to “recognize” you when you use our Site, including your preferences such as your preferred language , time, and location. A mix of first party (placed by us) and third-party cookies (placed by third parties) are used.
- Analytics Cookies – These cookies help us and our Service Providers compile statistics and analytics about users of the Site, including Site Activity Information. For example, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how users interact with the Platform. Google Analytics uses cookies to track your interactions with the Site, then collects that information and reports it to us. This information helps us improve the Site so that we can better serve you. To learn more about Google Analytics, visit https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en. If you wish, you can opt-out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available on https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- Advertising Cookies – We use these cookies to collect information about your visit to our Site, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. We sometimes share some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share Site Activity Information collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our Site.
For information on how to opt-out of these technologies, please see What Choices Do You Have? below.
- Social Plugins. Certain areas of our Site permit you to utilize social media functionality, such as the Facebook “Like” or Google “+1” buttons (“Social Plugins”). To use a Social Plugin, you must authorize the third-party provider of that Social Plugin, e.g. Facebook or Google, to access, collect, and/or disclose your information related to your use of that Social Plugin, subject to that company’s privacy policies, which may differ from this Privacy Policy. In addition, such providers may be able to collect information about you, including your activity on the Site, and they may notify your connections on their social networking platform about your use of the Site. Such services may also employ unique identifiers that allow your activity to be monitored across multiple websites for purposes of delivering more targeted advertising to you.
Amplify also receives information from other sources.
- Information from Other Sources. We may supplement any information we collect via this Site with information from publicly or commercially available sources.
3. How do we use personal information?
We may use any personal information and other information we collect from and about you for the following purposes and as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy:
- To provide and manage the Site. We use the personal information we collect from and about you to provide the Site and features to you, including to measure and improve its services and features, to personalize your experience by delivering relevant content, to deliver marketing messages, to allow you to comment on content, to provide you with customer support, and to respond to inquiries. We may also use and disclose aggregate or anonymous data about your use of and activity on the Site to assist us in this regard and for any other purpose.
- To contact you. Amplify may periodically send promotional materials (e.g., newsletters) or notifications related to the Site and to Amplify’s business to the contact information you provided to us at registration.
- To improve our products and services. We may use your personal information for our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, developing new products and services, enhancing the Site, improving our services, identifying usage trends, and determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.
- For marketing and advertising. We may use your personal information to help us market our products to you or your school district.
4. To whom do we disclose personal information?
We may disclose any personal information and other information we collect from and about you for the following purposes and as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy:
- To share with our affiliated education companies. Amplify may share your personal information with Amplify’s affiliated education companies for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
- To allow service providers to assist us. We may engage third party service providers, agents and partners (“Service Providers”) to perform functions on our behalf, such as analytics, credit card processing, shipping or stocking orders and providing customer service. We may disclose your personal information to such Service Providers to enable them to assist us in these efforts.
- To allow our marketing and advertising partners to assist us. We may engage marketing and advertising partners to help us market and advertise our products and services, including via digital ads sent in connection with your visit to the Site. We may disclose Site Activity information, as well as contact information and other aggregate insights to such partners to enable them to assist us in these efforts.
- To protect the rights of Amplify and our users. There may be instances when Amplify may disclose your personal information, in situations where Amplify has a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary or appropriate in order to: (i) protect, enforce, or defend the legal rights, privacy, safety, operations, or property of Amplify, our parents, subsidiaries or affiliates or our or their employees, agents and contractors (including enforcement of our agreements, including our terms of use); (ii) protect the rights, safety, privacy, security or property of users of the Site or others; (iii) protect against fraud or for risk management purposes; (iv) comply with the law or legal process, including laws outside your country of residence; (v) respond to requests from public and government authorities, including those outside your country of residence; or (vi) allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
- To complete a merger or sale of assets. If Amplify sells all or part of its business or makes a sale or transfer of its assets or is otherwise involved in a merger, transfer or other disposition of all or part of its business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings), Amplify may transfer your personal information to the party or parties involved in the transaction.
5. What rights and choices do you have?
Opt-out of Marketing Communications. If you want to stop receiving promotional materials from Amplify, you can follow the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email. There are certain service notification emails that you may not opt-out of, such as notifications of changes to the Site or policies. If you have additional questions, please contact us using information below in the Contact Us section.
Opt-of Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies. There are a few ways to opt out or delete cookies.
- On Your Browser. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies, but your browser may permit you to change your settings to notify you of a cookie being set or updated, or to block cookies altogether. Please consult the “Help” section of your browser for more information. Please note that by blocking any or all cookies you may not have access to certain features, content or personalization that may be available through the Site. Please also note that you must opt out separately on each device (including each web browser on each device) that you use to access our Site if you wish to opt out, and if you clear your cookies or if you use a different browser or device, you will need to renew your opt-out preferences.
- Interest-Based Advertising. Some advertisers and marketing companies participate in the self-regulatory programs of the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) and European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (“eDAA”) in connection with online interest-based advertising. DAA and eDAA provide consumers with the ability to opt out of receiving interest-based advertising from their program participants at the following links:
What Rights Do You Have?
- Please see section 3 of our supplemental disclosures: “Additional U.S. State Privacy Law Rights” for information about your U.S. privacy rights
- Please see section 4 of our supplemental disclosures: “Notice for European Economic Area and United Kingdom Customers” for information about your EU/UK privacy rights.
6. Security
Amplify uses commercially reasonable administrative, technical, personnel and physical measures to safeguard personal information in its possession against loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure or modification.
7. Data retention / Deletion
We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law. Even after we have deleted your personal information from our systems, copies of some information from your account may remain viewable in some circumstances – where, for example, you have shared information with social media platforms and other unaffiliated services. We may also retain backup information related to your account on our servers for some time after cancellation for fraud detection or to comply with applicable law or our internal security policies. Because of the nature of caching technology, your account may not be instantly inaccessible to others, and there may be a delay in the removal of the content from elsewhere on the Internet and from search engines.
8. Data Storage and Transfers
We are a United States Company, and our servers are hosted, managed, and controlled by us in the United States. If you are outside of the United States, we use industry standards to protect your data when it leaves your country of residence and your data will always be protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy, Applicable Laws and our Agreement regardless of the storage location.
Additionally, where we transfer your personal information to service providers outside of the United Kingdom (UK), European Economic Area (EEA), or other region that offers similar protections, we use specific appropriate safeguards to contractually obligate such service providers to protect personal information in accordance with Amplify’s commitment to privacy and security and applicable data protection laws.
If you have questions or wish to obtain more information about the international transfer of your personal information or the implemented safeguards, please contact us using the contact information below.
9. External third-party services
The Site may be linked to sites operated by unaffiliated companies, and may carry advertisements or offer content, functionality, games, newsletters, contests or sweepstakes, or applications developed and maintained by unaffiliated companies. Amplify is not responsible for the privacy practices of unaffiliated companies, and once you leave the Site via a link or enable an unaffiliated service, you are subject to the applicable privacy policy of the unaffiliated service.
10. Updates to this policy
Amplify may modify this Privacy Policy. Please look at the Last Revised Date at the top of this Privacy Policy to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site. If you do not wish to be bound by the terms of the revised Privacy Policy, you must discontinue your use of the Site.
11. Contact us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Email: privacy@amplify.com
Mail: Amplify Education, Inc.
55 Washington St.#800
Brooklyn, NY, 11201
Phone: (800) 823-1969
Attn: General Counsel
Appendix – Supplemental Disclosures
1. Notice for our California Customers
We retain your personal information for as long as you are an active user of our Site or continue to have an account with us, and in accordance with our legal obligations (which may require us to hold information to provide financial and other reporting and to defend against potential claims). If you are a California resident, please see below for information about your rights pursuant to California law.
Personal Information We Collect |
How We Use Personal Information |
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Some of the information described above may be considered “sensitive” under the laws of certain jurisdictions (including payment information and account login credentials (“Sensitive Information”). Whether information is Sensitive Information will depend on the laws of your jurisdiction. We only use Sensitive Information, such as payment information and account credentials for necessary or reasonably expected purposes – specifically, to provide you with our Services (i.e., fulfill purchases and to allow account logins).
Shine the Light
California’s Shine the Light law (Civil Code § 1798.83) permits California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of certain categories of personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. We do not share personal information, as defined by California’s Shine the Light law, with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.
Notice of Financial Incentive
As part of our services, there may be opportunities for you to complete surveys and questionnaires. As an incentive for completing the survey or questionnaire, you can voluntarily provide your personal information, which in turn enters you into a raffle drawing or enables us to provide you with other benefits, discounts, offers, or deals that may constitute a financial incentive under California law (“Financial Incentive”). The categories of personal information required for us to provide the Financial Incentives include: contact information and any other information that you choose to provide when you complete the survey.
Participation is voluntary and you can opt out at any time before your survey is complete.
The value of the personal information we collect in connection with our Financial Incentives is equivalent to the value of the benefit offered.
2. Additional U.S. State Privacy Law Rights
Residents of certain U.S. states have the following rights, regarding your personal information (each of which are subject to various exceptions and limitations):
- Access. You have the right to request, up to two times every 12 months, that we disclose to you the categories of personal information collected about you, the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected, the categories of personal information sold or shared, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing the personal information, the categories of third parties with whom personal information was shared, and the specific pieces of personal information collected about you.
- Correct. You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information collected from you.
- Deletion. You can request that we delete your personal information that we maintain about you.
- Opt-out (Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information). Under several U.S. state privacy laws, consumers have the right to opt-out of the “sale” of their personal information (defined very broadly to include situations where we provide personal information to partners who provide advertising services to us) and the “sharing” of personal information in connection with the display of targeted advertising across third party websites. While we do not sell your personal information, we do share it in connection with our advertising efforts. Please also note that we do not knowingly sell or share the Personal Information of minors under 16 years of age.
We also honor the Global Privacy Control, a browser-based opt-out signal. We do not respond to other browser-based signals that do not meet applicable state law requirements, which may include older Do Not Track signals.
- No Discrimination. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
- Appeals. You have a right to appeal decisions concerning your ability to exercise your consumer rights.
- Submission of Requests. You may exercise the above rights by emailing us at privacy@amplify.com. Note that we may deny certain requests, or fulfill a request only in part, based on our legal rights and obligations. For example, we may retain personal information as permitted by law, such as for tax or other record keeping purposes, to maintain an active account, and to process transactions and facilitate customer requests.
- Authorized Agent. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. When submitting the request, please ensure the authorized agent identifies himself/herself/itself as an authorized agent and can show written permission from you to represent you. We may contact you directly to confirm that you have authorized the agent to act on your behalf or confirm your identity.
- Verification. Whether you submit a request directly on your own behalf, or through an authorized agent, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity prior to responding to your requests. The verification steps will vary depending on the sensitivity of the personal information and whether you have an account with us.
3. Notice for European Economic Area and United Kingdom Customers
As detailed at the beginning of our Privacy Policy (under the section titled “Our Role”), Amplify acts as a controller with respect to personal information collected as you interact with our Site.
Lawful Basis for Processing
We rely on the following lawful bases for our processing activities:
- Consent;
- We obtain your consent to collect and process device and usage data via cookies on our Site to understand how individuals use our Site and to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing campaigns.
- Pursuant to a contract with the user of our Site;
- We process all categories of personal information that we collect to provide and manage our Site, including payment processing, where this is required in order for us to perform our obligations under our contract with you.
- To comply with our legal obligations;
- We process all categories of personal information that we collect to ensure the safety and security of our Site where we are complying with security requirements under data protection and cyber and information security law.
- We process all categories of personal information that we collect to comply with our legal obligations which includes, for example, to access, retain or share certain personal information where we receive a valid request from a government body, law enforcement body, judicial body regulator or similar, to deal with legal claims and prospective legal claims, and to ensure we are complying with applicable laws.
- When we have a legitimate interest in doing so, which is not outweighed by the risks to the individual. We rely on our legitimate interest to process all categories of personal information:
- to provide, manage, and improve the Site where such activities are not strictly required under our contract, including personalizing your experience on the Site.
- to ensure the safety and security of our Site where this is important but not required under the data protection law or cyber and information security laws.
- to respond to queries or otherwise communicate with you in relation to our Site and the operation of our business where this is not strictly required under a contract with you.
- internal research and certain marketing purposes (e.g. to periodically send newsletters and other promotional materials), which will not be based on Student Data or directed to K–12 students.
Your Data Subject Rights
If you are located in the EEA/UK, you have the following rights, subject to certain exceptions:
- Right of access: You have the right to ask us for confirmation on whether we are processing your personal information and access to that personal information.
- Right to correction: You have the right to have your personal information corrected.
- Right to erasure: You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information.
- Right to withdraw consent: You have the right to withdraw consent that you have provided.
- Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
- Right to restriction of processing: You have the right to request the limiting of our processing under limited circumstances.
- Right to data portability: You have the right to receive the personal information that you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit that information to another controller, including to have it transmitted directly, where technically feasible.
- Right to object: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information
To exercise any of these rights, contact us as set forth in the section entitled “Contact Us” above and specify which European privacy right you intend to exercise. We may require additional information from you to allow us to confirm your identity. Please note that we store information as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, and may continue to retain and use the information even after a data subject request for purposes of our legitimate interests, including to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, and enforce our agreements.
Complaints
If you have any issues with our compliance, you have the right to lodge a complaint with an EEA or UK supervisory authority. We would, however, appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns before you approach a data protection regulator, and would welcome you directing an inquiry first to us. To do so, please contact us by email at privacy@amplify.com or by mail at Amplify Education, Inc., 55 Washington St.#800, Brooklyn, NY, 11201.
Amplify Classroom and Polypad free and commercial use guidelines
If you’d like to use Amplify’s tools or content in your work, please review these guidelines to determine if your specific use is allowed and whether you need to submit a request for approval.
Overview
Amplify Classroom offers free prebuilt interactive and print-based lessons, interactive lesson-building tools, and Polypad virtual manipulatives. See amplify.com/classroom and polypad.amplify.com for more information.
Amplify Classroom features:
- Activity Builder (labeled “Custom Activities” in the platform): This content-creating and publishing tool enables educators to create their own interactive lessons and edit existing lessons.
- Polypad virtual manipulatives: These virtual manipulatives allow teachers and students to explore concepts, express their creativity, and visualize their thinking. Polypad virtual manipulatives can be embedded directly into lessons via Activity Builder or used as a stand-alone, dynamic workspace.
- Computation Layer: This feature enables educators to further customize lessons created with Activity Builder. Computation Layer is the code that allows components within the lessons to “talk” to one another, enabling users to connect representations; customize content; and provide dynamic, interpretive feedback. Computation Layer is accessible through Activity Builder.
Amplify Classroom includes activities and lessons across many subjects, created by the thousands of educators on our platform. Content created by Amplify is tagged “By Amplify,” “By Amplify Classroom,” or “By Desmos Classroom.”
Amplify also publishes paid core curriculum programs, including Amplify Desmos Math, Amplify Science, Amplify CKLA, Amplify Caminos, and Amplify ELA. These products can be reviewed and purchased by schools or districts interested in comprehensive resources aligned to standards and designed to motivate students. Some of the lessons that are free to use on Amplify Classroom (labeled Try It! lessons) are also part of these paid products. Learn more about our products and request a sample.
Amplify Classroom tools and content (other than paid products) are free for personal, educational, and non-commercial use, subject to our Acceptable Use Policy and Usage Guidelines. These guidelines also permit certain commercial uses. You generally don’t need to submit a request to use our free tools and resources for the permitted purposes covered in these guidelines. As long as you are following our Acceptable Use Policy and Usage Guidelines, as well as making appropriate Attributions and Disclaimers, you are permitted to move forward with your project. To make sure your use is permitted, please read these guidelines thoroughly and in their entirety. If you would like to explore a license for a use not permitted here, please submit this form.
Amplify does not own but partners with Desmos Studio, the maker of a suite of free math tools, including a graphing calculator used by over 75 million people around the world. (See desmos.com for more information.) Please contact Desmos Studio for information on using their content or tools.
Usage guidelines
Please adhere to the following guidelines for using Amplify Classroom tools and content in each of the scenarios set out below. You are required to follow our General Guidelines and Attribution requirements below when making permitted uses. You are responsible for clearing any third party marks and content you use in your applications or publications.
Uses labeled “PERMITTED USES” do not require permission, and you do not need to tell us about them—but we do appreciate hearing from you! Feel free to fill out this form to tell us about how you are using our tools and materials, and the ways in which you are finding them useful.
Uses labeled “CONTACT US” do require permission. If you are interested in such use, please submit this form, and someone from our team will endeavor to follow up with you as soon as possible.
Teaching and education services
This section provides guidelines on using Amplify Classroom for teaching and education services.
| PERMITTED USES | Educators creating, modifying (where permitted), and using Amplify Classroom content for classroom teaching in a school | |
| Public school districts, charter schools, and networks creating, modifying (where permitted) and using Amplify Classroom content for classroom teaching | ||
| Private tutors creating or using Amplify Classroom content in 1:1 or small-group tutoring sessions | ||
| CONTACT US | For-profit school or network of schools implementing Amplify Classroom for the school or network | |
| Education publishers and EdTech organizations (whether for profit or non-profit) using or linking to Amplify Classroom content and tools | ||
| Any organizations or individuals embedding the teaching and learning experience from the Amplify Classroom lessons in their websites or applications (except API/iFrames Polypad integrations permitted below) | ||
| Educators or other individuals authoring lessons for commercial purposes (e.g., to sell on Teachers Pay Teachers and similar websites) | ||
| School districts, states, education publishers or technology providers, educators or any other individual or organization (whether for profit or non-profit) using Amplify Classroom content or platform to create paid curricula, educational courses, assessments, or any materials or curricula for submission for a state adoption list; or for offering, marketing, or sale to any schools or educational agencies or organizations, in or outside of the U.S. | ||
| Instructional/tutoring organizations (whether for profit or non-profit), seeking to use Amplify Classroom for its tutors or instructors |
Print and presentations
This section provides guidelines on including content from Amplify Classroom, such as portions of free lessons or images generated using our tools, in printed materials or presentations.
| PERMITTED USES | Books, including textbooks, up to two thousand copies | |
| Periodicals (newspapers, magazines, journals, etc.) | ||
| Business documents such as company reports, proposals, presentations, etc. | ||
| Academic publications, research papers, Ph.D. theses, and portfolios | ||
| Conferences, presentations and accompanying slides | ||
| CONTACT US | Books, more than two thousand copies, or as cover art for a book | |
| As content within platforms, mobile and tablet applications, PDFs, ebooks, multimedia materials, or other digital resources or products | ||
| Consumer and retail goods or packaging (e.g., shirts, beach towels, shower curtains, mugs, posters, stationery) |
Web and apps
This section provides guidelines for embedding Amplify Classroom tools into your platform.
| PERMITTED USES | ![]() | Individuals and schools embedding Polypad in their materials for instructional use are permitted to do so; for integration options, see below. |
![]() | Organizations (whether for profit or non-profit) offering paid services embedding Polypad with <10k requests per year | |
| CONTACT US | ![]() | Organizations (whether for profit or non-profit) offering paid services embedding Polypad with >10k requests per year |
![]() | Individuals or organizations looking to embed Activity Builder/Computation Layer in their applications | |
![]() | Individuals or organizations looking to embed Amplify Classroom tools in larger applications, more complex integrations, white-labeling, or hosting Amplify’s JS files on their own infrastructure | |
![]() | Polypad links, screenshots, iFrames, or API uses behind a paywall |
Polypad integration options
There are two integration options for using Polypad within your own applications, including:
- Using iFrames hosted by Amplify.
- As a white-labeled JavaScript API that can be self-hosted and embedded in other websites or apps.
Developers can customize the features and behavior through numerous options and event listeners, and interact with the canvas programmatically to build custom functionality.
Visit the Polypad API page to learn more about Polypad API license terms and to generate API Key.
General guidelines
Copyright fair use
Your use of our content may be acceptable under principles of fair use (or other similar concepts in other countries). Under the fair use doctrine of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, it is permissible to use limited portions of a work for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, and scholarly reports.
Whether a particular use qualifies as fair use depends on a number of factors. For more information see resources from the U.S. Copyright Office, Circular 21, Reproductions of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians, and Fair Use Index. Amplify can’t tell you if your use of this content would be fair use, so you may wish to obtain your own legal advice.
Use of trademarks
Our trademarks are valuable assets of Amplify and its licensors, and we want to ensure our users and partners use them correctly. These trademarks include the Amplify word mark and logo, Polypad word mark, Core Knowledge Foundation word mark and logo, the Lawrence Hall of Science word mark and logo, and the Desmos and Amplify Classroom word marks and logos.
Logos
Our logos can only be used if you have an existing partnership, and you’ve reached out to your Amplify contact to secure formal approval from Amplify’s brand team.
Logos must never be used in a way that implies an endorsement or affiliation with Amplify where such a relationship does not exist.
Please contact media@amplify.com if you need to use an Amplify or Amplify Classroom logo.
Please contact Desmos Studio for Desmos Studio branding guidelines and licensing.
Use of product names and features
If making a use permitted under these guidelines or approved by Amplify, you may use the Amplify name or one of our product names or features in plain text to indicate that your product or service integrates with, or relates to, an Amplify product or service.
However, all references must be honest and accurate, and you can’t incorporate these names into your own name or imply an endorsement by Amplify or any of its licensors.
| REQUIRED | ![]() | Use the complete name “Amplify Classroom” when referencing the platform. |
![]() | Use “Amplify Classroom lessons” when talking about specific lessons authored in the Amplify Classroom platform. | |
![]() | Use “Teacher-created Amplify Classroom lessons” or “[Company name]-authored Amplify Classroom lessons” when talking about a lesson that has been authored by anyone other than Amplify personnel. | |
![]() | Include required attribution and disclaimers. | |
| PROHIBITED | ![]() | Do not imply an endorsement or affiliation with Amplify where such a relationship does not exist. |
Attribution and disclaimers
You are required to include a link to the homepage of Amplify Classroom (amplify.com/classroom) and a prominent disclaimer of affiliation when making permissible uses described above in at least one place in your materials, preferably the cover page or landing page.
Visit Amplify Classroom for free lessons, lesson-building tools, and Polypad virtual manipulatives at amplify.com/classroom. This content is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Amplify or any of its licensors. Amplify®, Amplify Classroom™, and related trademarks are the property of Amplify Education, Inc.
If your current attribution language refers to Desmos Classroom, please update the attribution to “Amplify Classroom” instead of “Desmos Classroom.”
Contact us
Amplify Classroom and Polypad usage inquiry form for uses labeled “Contact Us”
Thank you for your interest in using Amplify Classroom and/or Polypad. If your intended use falls into one of the categories labeled “Contact us,” please fill out this form, so we can determine the appropriate permissions or licenses:
Amplify Classroom and Polypad usage inquiry form for uses labeled “Permitted”
Thank you for your interest in using Amplify Classroom and/or Polypad. If your intended use falls under the “Permitted” categories outlined in our use guidelines, please let us know by filling out the form below. This helps us understand how our tools are being used.
Note: If your intended use falls under one of the “CONTACT US” categories outlined in our use guidelines, please fill out this form.
Amplify Classroom and Polypad Permitted Use Form
Grade 6
Unit 1: Area and Surface Area
| Illustrative Mathematics | Desmos Math 6–A1 |
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| Topic A: Reasoning to Find Area | |
| Lesson 1: Tiling the Plane | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Shapes on a Plane [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 2: Finding Area by Decomposing and Rearranging Lesson 3: Reasoning to Find Area | Unit 1 Lesson 2: Letters |
| Topic 2: Parallelograms | |
| Lesson 4: Parallelograms Lesson 5: Bases and Heights of Parallelograms Lesson 6: Area of Parallelograms | Unit 1 Lesson 3: Exploring Parallelograms (Print available) [Free lesson] Lesson 4: Off the Grid |
| Topic 3: Triangles | |
| Lesson 7: From Parallelograms to Triangles | Unit 1 Lesson 3: Exploring Parallelograms (Print available) [Free lesson] Lesson 4: Off the Grid Lesson 6: Triangles and Parallelograms |
| Lesson 8: Area of Triangles | Unit 1 Lesson 5: Exploring Triangles (Print available) |
| Lesson 9: Formula for the Area of a Triangle Lesson 10: Bases and Heights of Triangles | Unit 1 Lesson 4: Off the Grid Lesson 6: Triangles and Parallelograms |
| Topic 4: Polygons | |
| Lesson 11: Polygons | Unit 1 Lesson 2: Letters Lesson 8: Pile of Polygons Practice Day 1 (Print available) Unit 7 Lesson 11: Polygon Maker |
| Topic 5: Surface Area | |
| Lesson 12: What is Surface Area? | Unit 1 Lesson 9: Renata´s Stickers [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 13: Polyhedra | Unit 1Lesson 10: Plenty of Polyhedra |
| Lesson 14: Nets and Surface Area | Unit 1 Lesson 10: Plenty of Polyhedra Lesson 11: Nothing But Nets (Print available) Lesson 13: Take It To Go |
| Lesson 15: More Nets, More Surface Area | Unit 1 Lesson 10: Plenty of Polyhedra Lesson 11: Nothing But Nets (Print available) Lesson 12: Face Value Lesson 13: Take It To Go (Print available) Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Lesson 16: Distinguishing Between Surface Area and Volume | |
| Topic 6: Squares and Cubes | |
| Lesson 17: Squares and Cubes | Unit 6 Lesson 12: Squares and Cubes |
| Lesson 18: Surface Area of a Cube | |
| Topic 7: Let’s Put It to Work | |
| Lesson 19: Designing a Tent | Unit 1 Lesson 13: Take It To Go (Print available) |
Unit 2: Introducing Ratios
Unit 3: Rates and Percentages
| Topic 1: Units of Measurement | |
| Lesson 1: The Burj Khalifa | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Model Trains |
| Topic 2: Unit Conversion | |
| Lesson 2: Anchoring Units of Measurement | Unit 3 Lesson 1: Many Measurements (Print available) [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 3: Measuring with Different-Sized Units Lesson 4: Converting Units | Unit 3 Lesson 2: Counting Classrooms Lesson 3: Pen Pals |
| Topic 3: Rates | |
| Lesson 5: Comparing Speeds and Prices | Unit 2 Lesson 8: World Records (Print available) Unit 3 Lesson 4: Model Trains Lesson 5: Soft Serve [Free lesson] Lesson 6: Welcome to the Robot Factory |
| Lesson 6: Interpreting Rates Lesson 7: Equivalent Ratios Have the Same Unit Rates | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Model Trains Lesson 5: Soft Serve [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 8: More About Constant Speed | Unit 2 Lesson 8: World Records (Print available) Unit 3 Lesson 4: Model Trains |
| Lesson 9: Solving Rate Problems | Unit 3 Lesson 7: More Soft Serve |
| Topic 4: Percentages | |
| Lesson 10: What Are percentages | Unit 3 Lesson 8: Lucky Duckies [Free lesson] Lesson 9: Bicycle Goals |
| Lesson 11: Percentages and Double Number Lines | Unit 3 Lesson 9: Bicycle Goals Lesson 10: What’s Missing? (Print available) |
| Lesson 12: Percentages and Tape Diagrams | Unit 3 Lesson 10: What’s Missing? (Print available) |
| Lesson 13: Benchmark percentages | Unit 3 Lesson 8: Lucky Duckies [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 14: Solving Percentage Problems Lesson 15: Finding This Percent of That Lesson 16: Finding the Percentage | Unit 3 Lesson 10: What’s Missing? (Print available) Lesson 11: Cost Breakdown Lesson 12: More Bicycle Goals Lesson 13: A Country as a Village |
| Topic 5: Let’s Put It to Work | |
| Lesson 17: Painting a Room | Unit 3 Lesson 13: A Country as a Village |
| Lesson 7: Equivalent Ratios Have the Same Unit Rates | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Model Trains Lesson 5: Soft Serve [Free lesson] |
Unit 4: Dividing Fractions
| Topic 1: Making Sense of Division | |
| Lesson 1: Size of Divisor and Size of Quotient Lesson 2: Meanings of Division | Unit 4Lesson 1: Cookie Cutter |
| Lesson 3: Interpreting Division Situations | Unit 4Lesson 2: Making Connections (Print available) |
| Topic 2: Meanings of Fraction Division | |
| Lesson 4: How Many Groups (Part 1) | Unit 4Lesson 3: Flour Planner [Free lesson]Lesson 4: Flower Planters |
| Lesson 5: How Many Groups (Part 2) | Unit 4Lesson 5: Garden Bricks (Print available) |
| Lesson 6: Using Diagrams to Find the Number of Groups | Unit 4Lesson 5: Garden Bricks (Print available)Lesson 6: Fill the Gap [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 7: What Fraction of a Group? Lesson 8: How Much in Each Group? (Part 1) Lesson 9: How Much in Each Group? (Part 2) | Unit 4Lesson 8: Potting Soil |
| Topic 3: Algorithm for Fraction Division | |
| Lesson 10: Dividing by Unit and Non-Unit Fractions | Unit 4Lesson 7: Break It DownLesson 8: Potting SoilLesson 9: Division Challenges |
| Lesson 11: Using an Algorithm to Divide Fractions | Unit 4Lesson 9: Division ChallengesPractice Day |
| Topic 4: Fractions in Lengths, Areas, and Volumes | |
| Lesson 12: Fractional Lengths | Unit 4Lesson 11: Classroom Comparisons |
| Lesson 13: Rectangles with Fractional Side Lengths | Unit 4Lesson 12: Puzzling Areas (Print available) [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 14: Fractional Lengths in Triangles and Prisms | |
| Lesson 15: Volume of Prisms | Unit 4Lesson 13: Volume Challenges |
| Topic 5: Let’s Put It to Work | |
| Lesson 16: Solving Problems with Fractions | Unit 4Lesson 10: Swap Meet (Print available) |
| Lesson 17: Fitting Boxes into Boxes | Unit 4Lesson 14: Planter Planner (Print available) |
Unit 5: Arithmetic in Base Ten
| Topic 1: Warming Up to Decimals | |
| Lesson 1: Using Decimals in a Shopping Context | Unit 5Lesson 1: Dishing Out Decimals (Print available) [Free lesson] |
| Topic 2: Adding and Subtracting Decimals | |
| Lesson 2: Using Decimals to Represent Addition and Subtraction | Unit 5Lesson 3: Fruit by the PoundLesson 4: Missing Digits |
| Lesson 3: Adding and Subtracting Decimals with Few Non-Zero Digits | Unit 5Lesson 4: Missing Digits |
| Lesson 4: Adding and Subtracting Decimals with Many Non-Zero Digits | |
| Topic 3: Multiplying Decimals | |
| Lesson 5: Decimal Points in Products | Unit 5Lesson 5: Decimal Multiplication |
| Lesson 6: Methods for Multiplying Decimals | Unit 5Lesson 5: Decimal MultiplicationLesson 6: Multiplying with AreasLesson 7: Multiplication methods (Print available) |
| Lesson 7: Using Diagrams to Represent Multiplication | Unit 5Lesson 5: Decimal MultiplicationLesson 6: Multiplying with Areas |
| Lesson 8: Calculating Products of Decimals | Unit 5Lesson 6: Multiplying with Areas |
| Topic 4: Dividing Decimals | |
| Lesson 9: Using the Partial Quotients Method | Unit 5Lesson 8: Division Diagrams |
| Lesson 10: Using Long Division | Unit 5Lesson 8: Division DiagramsLesson 9: Long Division Launch (Print available)Lesson 10: Return of the Long Division (Print available) |
| Lesson 11: Dividing Numbers That Result in Decimals Lesson 12: Dividing Decimals by Whole Numbers Lesson 13: Dividing Decimals by Decimals | Unit 5Lesson 9: Long Division Launch (Print available)Lesson 10: Return of the Long Division (Print available) |
| Topic 5: Let’s Put It to Work | |
| Lesson 14: Using Operations on Decimals to Solve Problems | Unit 5Lesson 11: Movie Time [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 15: Making and Measuring Boxes | |
| Lesson 12: Dividing Decimals by Whole Numbers | |
| Lesson 13: Dividing Decimals by Decimals | Unit 5Lesson 9: Long Division Launch (Print available)Lesson 10: Return of the Long Division (Print available) |
Unit 6: Expressions and Equations
Unit 7: Rational Numbers
| Topic 1: Positive and Negative Numbers | |
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| Lesson 1: Positive and Negative Numbers | Unit 7Lesson 1: Can You Dig In [Free lesson]Lesson 2: Digging Deeper |
| Lesson 2: Points on the Number Line | Unit 7Lesson 2: Digging Deeper |
| Lesson 3: Comparing Positive and Negative Numbers Lesson 4: Ordering Rational Numbers | Unit 7Lesson 3: Order in the Class (Print available) [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 5: Using Negative Numbers to make Sense of Contexts | Unit 7 Lesson 4: Sub-Zero |
| Lesson 6: Absolute Value of Numbers Lesson 7: Comparing Numbers and Distance from Zero | Unit 7Lesson 5: Distance on the Number Line |
| Topic 2: Inequalities | |
| Lesson 8: Writing and Graphing Inequalities | Unit 7Lesson 13: Popcorn Possibilities |
| Lesson 9: Solutions of Inequalities Lesson 10: Interpreting Inequalities | Unit 7Lesson 6: Tunnel Travel [Free lesson]Lesson 7: Comparing WeightsLesson 8: Shira´s Solutions |
| Topic 3: The Coordinate Plane | |
| Lesson 11: Points on the Coordinate Plane Lesson 12: Constructing the Coordinate Plane | Unit 7Lesson 9: Sand Dollar SearchLesson 10: The A-maze-ing Coordinate Plane |
| Lesson 13: Interpreting Points on a Coordinate Plane | Unit 7Lesson 9: Sand Dollar SearchLesson 10: The A-maze-ing Coordinate PlaneLesson 11: Polygon Maker |
| Lesson 14: Distances on a Coordinate Plane | Unit 7Lesson 11: Polygon MakerLesson 12: Graph Telephone (Print available) |
| Lesson 15: Shapes on the Coordinate Plane | Unit 1Lesson 1: Shapes on a Plane [Free lesson]Lesson 2: LettersLesson 5: Exploring Triangles (Print available)Lesson 6: Triangles and ParallelogramsUnit 7Lesson 3: Exploring Parallelograms (Print available)Lesson 11: Polygon MakerLesson 12: Graph Telephone (Print available) |
| Topic 4: Common Factors and Common Multiples | |
| Lesson 16: Common Factors | Unit 5Lesson 15: Common factors |
| Lesson 17: Common Multiples | Unit 5Lesson 14: Common Multiples |
| Lesson 18: Using Common Multiples and Common Factors | Unit 5Lesson 14: Common MultiplesLesson 15: Common factorsPractice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Topic 5: Let’s Put It to Work | |
| Lesson 19: Drawing on the Coordinate Plane | Unit 7Lesson 11: Polygon MakerLesson 12: Graph Telephone (Print available) |
Unit 8: Data Sets and Distributions
| Topic 1: Data, Variability, and Statistical Questions | |
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| Lesson 1: Got Data? Lesson 2: Statistical Questions | Unit 8Lesson 1: Screen TimeLesson 2: Dot Plots |
| Topic 2: Dot Plots and Distributions | |
| Lesson 3: Representing Data Graphically Lesson 4: Dot Plots Lesson 5: Using Dot Plots to Answer Statistical Questions | Unit 8Lesson 2: Dot PlotsLesson 3: Minimum Wage (Print available) [Free lesson]Lesson 4: Lots More Dots |
| Lesson 6: Interpreting Histograms Lesson 7: Using Histograms to Answer Statistical Questions Lesson 8: Describing Distributions on Histograms | Unit 8Lesson 5: The Plot Thickens [Free lesson]Lesson 6: DIY Histograms (Print available) |
| Topic 3: Measures of Center and Variability | |
| Lesson 9: Mean Lesson 10: Finding and Interpreting the Mean as a Balance Point | Unit 8Lesson 7: Snack Time |
| Lesson 11: Variability and MAD | Unit 8Lesson 8: Pop It! |
| Lesson 12: Using Mean and MAD to Make Comparisons | Unit 8Lesson 9: Hoops |
| Topic 4: Median and IQR | |
| Lesson 13: Median | Unit 8Lesson 11: Toy Cars [Free lesson]Lesson 12: In the News |
| Lesson 14: Comparing Mean and Median | Unit 8Lesson 12: In the News |
| Lesson 15: Quartiles and Interquartile Range | Unit 8Lesson 13: Pumpkin Patch |
| Lesson 16: Box Plots | Unit 8Lesson 14: Car, Plane, Bus, or Train? (Print available) |
| Lesson 17: Using Box Plots | Unit 8Lesson 14: Car, Plane, Bus, or Train? (Print available)Lesson 15: Hollywood Part 2Lesson 16: Hollywood Part 3 (Print available)Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Topic 5: Let’s Put It to Work | |
| Lesson 18: Using Data to Solve Problems | Unit 8Lesson 16: Hollywood Part 3 (Print available) |
Unit 9: Putting It All Together
| Topic 1: Making Connections | |
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| Lesson 1: Fermi Problems Lesson 2: In Our Class Were the World | Unit 3Lesson 13: A Country as a Village |
| Lesson 3: Rectangle Madness | Unit 5Lesson 14: Common MultiplesLesson 15: Common factors |
| Topic 2: Voting | |
| Lesson 4: How Do We Choose? | Unit 2Lesson 13: City PlanningLesson 14: Lunch Waste (Print available) |
| Lesson 5: More than Two Choices | Unit 3Lesson 13: A Country as a Village |
| Lesson 6: Picking Representatives | Unit 8Lesson 16: Hollywood Part 3 (Print available) |
Grade 7
Unit 1: Scale Drawings
| Illustrative Mathematics | Desmos Math 6–A1 |
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| Topic 1: Scaled Copies | |
| Lesson 1: What are Scaled Copies? | Unit 1Lesson 1: Scaling Machines [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 2: Corresponding Parts and Scale Factors | Unit 1Lesson 2: Scaling Robots Unit 3Lesson 1: Toothpicks |
| Lesson 3: Making Scaled Copies Lesson 4: Scaled Relationship | Unit 1Lesson 3: Make It Scale Unit 4Lesson 3: Sticker Sizes |
| Lesson 5: The Size and the Scale Factor | Unit 1Lesson 4: Scale Factor Challenges |
| Lesson 6: Scaling and Area | Unit 1Lesson 5: TilesPractice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Topic 2: Scale Drawings | |
| Lesson 7: Scale Drawings | Unit 1Lesson 6: Introducing ScaleLesson 7: Will It Fit? (Print available) [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 8: Scale Drawings and Maps | |
| Lesson 9: Creating Scale Drawings Lesson 10: Changing Scales in Scale Drawings | Unit 1Lesson 8: Scaling StatesLesson 9: Scaling BuildingsLesson 10: Room Redesign (Print available) |
| Lesson 11: Scales without Units | |
| Lesson 12: Units in Scale Drawings | Unit 1Lesson 8: Scaling StatesLesson 9: Scaling BuildingsLesson 10: Room Redesign (Print available)Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Topic 3: Let’s Put It to Work | |
| Lesson 13: Draw It to Scale | Unit 1Lesson 10: Room Redesign (Print available) |
Unit 2: Introducing Proportional Relationships
| Topic 1: Representing Proportional Relationships with Tables | |
| Lesson 1: One of These Things Is Not Like the Others | Unit 2Lesson 1: Paint [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 2: Introducing Proportional Relationships with Tables | Unit 2Lesson 2: Balloon FloatLesson 3: Sugary Drinks (Print available)Lesson 4: Robot Factory |
| Lesson 3: More About Constant of Proportionality | Unit 2Lesson 3: Sugary Drinks (Print available)Unit 4Lesson 3: Sticker Sizes |
| Topic 2: Representing Proportional Relationships with Equations | |
| Lesson 4: Proportional Relationships with Equations | Unit 2Lesson 4: Robot FactoryLesson 5: SnapshotsLesson 6: Two and Two (Print available) [Free lesson]Lesson 7: All Kinds of Equations |
| Lesson 5: Two Equations for Each Relationship Lesson 6: Using Equations to Solve Problems | Unit 2Lesson 6: Two and Two (Print available) [Free lesson]Lesson 7: All Kinds of EquationsPractice Day |
| Topic 3: Comparing Proportional and Nonproportional Relationships | |
| Lesson 7: Comparing Relationships with Tables | Unit 2Lesson 2: Balloon FloatLesson 3: Sugary Drinks (Print available)Lesson 4: Robot Factory |
| Lesson 8: Comparing Relationships with Equations | Unit 2Lesson 4: Robot FactoryLesson 5: SnapshotsLesson 6: Two and Two (Print available) [Free lesson]Lesson 7: All Kinds of EquationsLesson 11: Four RepresentationsLesson 12: Water Efficiency |
| Lesson 9: Solving Problems About Proportional Relationships | Unit 2Lesson 12: Water Efficiency |
| Topic 4: Representing Proportional Relationships with Graphs | |
| Lesson 10: Introducing Graphs of Proportional Relationships Lesson 11: Interpreting Graphs of Proportional Relationships Lesson 12: Using Graphs to Compare Relationships Lesson 13: Two Graphs for Each Relationship | Unit 2Lesson 8: Dino Pops [Free lesson]Lesson 9: Gallon ChallengeLesson 10: Three TurtlesLesson 11: Four RepresentationsLesson 12: Water Efficiency |
| Topic 5: Let’s Put It to Work | |
| Lesson 14: For Representations | Unit 2Lesson 11: Four Representations (Print available) |
| Lesson 15: Using Water Efficiency | Unit 2Lesson 12: Water Efficiency |
Unit 3: Measuring Circles
| Topic 1: Circumference of a Circle | |
| Lesson 1: How Well Can You Measure? | Unit 3Lesson 1: Toothpicks |
| Lesson 2: Exploring Circles Lesson 3: Exploring Circumference Lesson 4: Applying Circumference | Unit 3Lesson 2: Is It a Circle?Lesson 3: Measuring Around [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 5: Circumference and Wheels | |
| Topic 2: Area of a Circle | |
| Lesson 6: Estimating Areas | Unit 3Lesson 5: Area Strategies |
| Lesson 7: Exploring the Area of a Circle Lesson 8: Relating Area to Circumference | Unit 3Lesson 5: Area StrategiesLesson 6: Radius Squares (Print available)Lesson 7: Why Pi?Lesson 8: Area Challenges [Free lesson]Lesson 9: Circle vs. SquarePractice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Lesson 9: Applying Area of Circles | Unit 3Lesson 6: Radius Squares (Print available) |
| Topic 3: Let’s Put It to Work | |
| Lesson 10: Distinguishing Circumference and Area | Unit 3Lesson 7: Why Pi? |
| Lesson 11: Stained-Glass Windows | Unit 3Lesson 5: Area StrategiesLesson 6: Radius Squares (Print available) |
Unit 4: Proportional Relationships and Percentages
Unit 5: Rational Number Arithmetic
| Topic 1: Interpreting Negative Numbers | |
| Lesson 1: Interpreting Negative Numbers | Unit 5Lesson 1: Floats and Anchors [Free lesson] |
| Topic 2: Adding and Subtracting Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 2: Changing Temperatures Lesson 3: Changing Elevation | Unit 5Lesson 2: More Floats and AnchorsLesson 3: BumpersLesson 4: Draw Your Own (Print available) [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 4: Money and Debts | |
| Lesson 5: Representing Subtraction | Unit 5Lesson 5: Number Puzzles |
| Lesson 6: Subtracting Rational Numbers Lesson 7: Adding and Subtracting to Solve Problems | Unit 5Lesson 3: BumpersLesson 4: Draw Your Own (Print available) [Free lesson]Lesson 5: Number PuzzlesLesson 10: Integer Puzzles [Free lesson]Lesson 11: Changing TemperaturesLesson 13: Solar Panels and More (Print available)Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Topic 3: Multiplying and Dividing Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 8: Position, Speed, and Direction Lesson 9: Multiplying Rational Numbers Lesson 10: Multiply! | Unit 5Lesson 7: Back in Time |
| Lesson 11: Dividing Rational Numbers | Unit 5Lesson 8: Speeding Turtles |
| Lesson 12: Negative Rates | |
| Topic 4: Four Operations with Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 13: Expressions with Rational Numbers | Unit 5Lesson 9: Expressions (Print available) |
| Lesson 14: Solving Problems with Rational Numbers | Lesson 11: Changing Temperatures Lesson 12: Arctic Ice Sea (Print available) Lesson 13: Solar Panels and More (Print available) |
| Topic 5: Solving Equations When There Are Negative Numbers | |
| Lesson 15: Making and Measuring Boxes | |
| Lesson 16: Representing Contexts with Equations | |
| Topic 6: Let’s Put It to Work | |
| Lesson 17: The Stock market |
Unit 6: Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities
Unit 7: Angles, Triangles, and Prisms
| Topic 1: Angle Relationships | |
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| Lesson 1:Relationships of Angles | Unit 7 Lesson 1: Pinwheels Lesson 2: Friendly Angles [Free lesson] Lesson 3: Angle Diagrams |
| Lesson 2: Adjacent Angles Lesson 3: Nonadjacent Angles | Unit 7Lesson 2: Friendly Angles [Free lesson]Lesson 3: Angle Diagrams |
| Lesson 4: Solving for Unknown Angles | Unit 7Lesson 2: Friendly Angles [Free lesson]Lesson 3: Angle DiagramsLesson 4: Missing Measures (Print available) |
| Lesson 5: Using Equations to Solve for Unknown Angles | Unit 7Lesson 3: Angle DiagramsLesson 4: Missing Measures (Print available) [Free lesson] |
| Topic 2: Drawing Polygons with Given Conditions | |
| Lesson 6: Building Polygons (Part 1) Lesson 7: Building Polygons (Part 2) | Unit 7Lesson 6: Is It Enough? |
| Lesson 8: Triangles with 3 Common Measures | Unit 7Lesson 13: Popcorn Possibilities |
| Lesson 9: Drawing Triangles (Part 1) Lesson 10: Drawing Triangles (Part 2) | Unit 7Lesson 5: Can You Build It? [Free lesson]Lesson 6: Is It Enough?Lesson 7: More Than OneLesson 8: Can You Draw It? (Print available)Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Topic 3: Solid Geometry | |
| Lesson 11: Slicing Solids | Unit 7Lesson 9: Slicing Solids |
| Lesson 12: Volume of Right Prisms | Unit 7Lesson 10: Simple Prisms |
| Lesson 13: Decomposing Bases for Areas | Unit 7Lesson 11: More Complicated Prisms |
| Lesson 14: Surface Area of Right Prisms | Unit 7Lesson 10: Simple PrismsLesson 11: More Complicated PrismsLesson 12: Surface Area Strategies (Print available) |
| Lesson 15: Distinguishing Volume and Surface Area | |
| Lesson 16: Applying Volume and Surface Area | Unit 7Lesson 13: Popcorn Possibilities |
| Topic 4: Let’s Put It to Work | |
| Lesson 17: Building Prisms |
Unit 8: Probability and Sampling
Grade 8
Unit 1: Rigid Transformations and Congruence
Unit 2: Dilations, Similarity, and Introducing Slope
Unit 3: Linear Relationships
Unit 4: Linear Equations and Linear Systems
Unit 5: Functions and Volume
Unit 6: Associations in Data
Unit 7: Exponents and Scientific Notation
| Topic 1: Exponent Review | |
| Lesson 1: Exponent Review | Unit 7 Lesson 1: Circles [Free lesson]Lesson 2: Combining Exponents |
| Topic 2: Exponent Rules | |
| Lesson 2: Multiplying Powers of 10 Lesson 3: Powers of Powers of 10 Lesson 4: Dividing Powers of 10 | Unit 7 Lesson 3: Power Pairs (Print available) [Free lesson]Lesson 4: Rewriting Powers |
| Lesson 5: Negative Exponents with Powers of 10 | Unit 7 Lesson 5: Zero and Negative ExponentsLesson 6: Write a Rule (Print available)Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Lesson 6: What about Other Bases? | |
| Lesson 7: Practice with Rational Bases | |
| Lesson 8: Combining Bases | |
| Topic 3: Scientific Notation | |
| Lesson 9: Describing Large and Small Numbers using Powers of 10 | Unit 7 Lesson 7: Scales and Weights |
| Lesson 10: Representing Large Numbers on the Number Line Lesson 11: Representing Small Numbers on the Number Line | Unit 7 Lesson 8: Point Zapper |
| Lesson 12: Applications of Arithmetic with Powers of 10 | Unit 7 Lesson 8: Point ZapperLesson 9: Use Your Powers |
| Lesson 13: Defining Scientific Notation Lesson 14: Multiplying, Dividing, and Estimating with Scientific Notation | Unit 7 Lesson 10: Solar System [Free lesson]Lesson 11: Balance the Scales [Free lesson]Lesson 13: Star Power |
| Lesson 15: Adding and Subtracting with Scientific Notation | Unit 7 Lesson 10: Solar System [Free lesson]Lesson 11: Balance the Scales [Free lesson]Lesson 12: City LightsLesson 13: Star Power |
| Topic 4: Let’s Put It to Work | |
| Lesson 16: Is a Smartphone Smart Enough to Go to the Moon? | Lesson 13: Star Power Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
Unit 8: Pythagorean Theorem and Irrational Numbers
| Topic 1: Side Lengths and Areas of Squares | |
| Lesson 1: The Areas of Squares and Their Side Lengths | Unit 8Lesson 1: Tilted Squares |
| Lesson 2: Side Lengths and Areas | Unit 8Lesson 2: From Squares to RootsLesson 3: Between Squares |
| Lesson 3: Rational and Irrational Numbers | |
| Lesson 4: Square Roots on the Number Line | |
| Lesson 5: Reasoning about Square Roots | Unit 8Lesson 2: From Squares to RootsLesson 3: Between SquaresLesson 4: Root Down [Free lesson]Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Topic 2: The Pythagorean Theorem | |
| Lesson 6: Finding Side Lengths of Triangles | Unit 8Lesson 6: The Pythagorean TheoremLesson 7: Pictures to Prove ItLesson 8: Triangle-Tracing Turtle [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 7: A Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem | Unit 8Lesson 7: Pictures to Prove It |
| Lesson 8: Finding Unknown Side Lengths | Unit 8Lesson 11: Pond Hopper |
| Lesson 9: The Converse | Unit 8Lesson 9: Make It Right |
| Lesson 10: Applications of the Pythagorean Theorem | Unit 8Lesson 10: Taco Truck [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 11: Finding Distances in the Coordinate Plane | Unit 8Lesson 11: Pond Hopper |
| Topic 3: Side Lengths and Volumes of Cubes | |
| Lesson 12: Edge Lengths and Volumes Lesson 13: Cube Roots | Unit 8Lesson 5: Filling Cubes |
| Topic 4: Decimal Representation of Rational and Irrational Numbers | |
| Lesson 14: Decimal Representation of Rational and Numbers Lesson 15: Infinite Decimal expansions | Unit 8Lesson 12: Fractions to DecimalsLesson 13: Decimals to Fractions |
| Topic 5: Let’s Put It to Work | |
| Lesson 16: When Is the Same Size Not the Same Size? | Unit 8Lesson 10: Taco Truck [Free lesson] |
Unit 9: Putting It All Together
| Topic 1: Tessellations | |
| Lesson 1: Tessellations of the Plane | |
| Lesson 2: Regular Tessellations | |
| Lesson 3: Tessellating Polygons | |
| Topic 2: The Weather | |
| Lesson 4: What Influences Temperature? | |
| Lesson 5: Plotting the Weather | |
| Lesson 6: Using and Interpreting a Mathematical Model |
Remote & hybrid learning
Rich, engaging content is at the center of Amplify CKLA instruction. Students build subject area knowledge in history, science, literature, and the arts by learning to read and write. We have built new resources to make our high-quality preK–5 program easy to use in remote or hybrid settings during the 2020–2021 school year.

Supporting back to school 2021–2022
As students return to school this fall, Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts® (CKLA) will be offering resources to help you flexibly transition from the physical classroom to at-home learning as needed. This includes a new digital Hub for students to access videos, readers, and an interactive Vocab App from anywhere, and the Foundational Skills Boost to help students fill in gaps from spring 2020.
Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) will be offering resources to help you flexibly transition from the physical classroom to at-home learning as needed. This includes a new digital Hub for students to access videos, readers, and an interactive Vocab App from anywhere, and the Foundational Skills Boost to help students fill in gaps from spring 2020.
Foundational Skills Boost website
To address foundational skills instruction missed during COVID-19 school closures, we are providing a free resource for educators and parents. This new website includes video-based instruction for students in Grades 1–3, covering the last nine weeks of the previous school year to give students the boost they need. The video-based, self-guided lessons pull from Amplify CKLA instructional resources and are designed for students to complete independently, either at home or in the classroom. Access it here!

The site features:
- Video lessons targeting phonemic awareness and phonics
- Decodable readers for practice
- Optional teacher-led small group activities
- Family resources for additional practice
- A planner for educators and caregivers to track students’ progress.
Scope and Sequences: These documents show the scope and sequence of the Foundational Skills Boost.
- Grade 1 Foundational Skills Boost Scope and Sequence
- Grade 2 Foundational Skills Boost Scope and Sequence
- Grade 3 Foundational Skills Boost Scope and Sequence
These documents show how Foundational Skills Boost aligns with the Amplify CKLA grade-level curriculum. If you’re using Amplify CKLA, download the PDFs below to use with Foundational Skills Boost.
- Grade 1 Foundational Skills Boost / Amplify CKLA Scope and Sequence
- Grade 2 Foundational Skills Boost / Amplify CKLA Scope and Sequence
- Grade 3 Foundational Skills Boost / Amplify CKLA Scope and Sequence
Back-to-school instructional recommendations
- Begin grade-level instruction with Unit 1 in every grade, utilizing recommended instructional minutes.
- In grades 1–3, CKLA instruction begins with review from the previous year.
- For grades 4–5, you may choose the optional novel guide unit to start the school year.
- For grades 1–3, we recommend you schedule an additional 30-minute instructional block for unfinished foundational skills instruction from spring 2020. We will offer the Foundational Skills Boost for use during this block.
New back-to-school features for remote and hybrid learning

Recorded daily Read-Alouds
Teachers and students will have access to video recordings of all K–2 Knowledge Read-Alouds with pictures from the Flip Books.

Digital Hub for students and teachers
Students can now access materials that support K–5 instruction from anywhere, including student Readers in an audio-enabled eReader. Teachers will find multimedia resources on the Hub and digital versions of all instructional components on the Teacher Resource Site.

Parent access
Parents will now have access to important student resources via the digital Hub. We will have a parent login available and a letter in both English and Spanish that explains how to use the resources.

Skills at home
Grade-level foundational skills guidance for parents includes instructions and materials to teach and practice grade-level phonics at home. Resources include sound videos, Readers, and a how-to video with editable instructions that teachers can customize to meet individual classroom needs.
How to use Amplify CKLA during remote learning
We’ve developed a variety of resources to ensure you have the tools you need to support students in developing foundational skills and building background knowledge—no matter where learning is happening. On the following pages, you’ll find information on using Amplify CKLA for extended periods of remote learning, both in situations where students have access to technology and those where technology is limited.
For remote learning with access to technology at home, we recommend teacher-led virtual lessons for daily Skills Strand lessons in K–2 and daily lessons in 3–5, while students access application activities, recorded Knowledge Strand Read-Alouds, and the Foundational Skills Boost online. In the Student Hub, students will have access to K–2 Skills Strand components such as student Readers and the Sound Library, K–2 Knowledge components like Knowledge Builders, and the 3–5 Vocab App.
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Amplify CKLA’s resources ensure students can continue learning at home. If students have limited access to technology, Activity Books and student Readers can be sent home with editable family letters. If students have access to a smartphone, K–2 Knowledge Strand recorded Read-Alouds are mobile friendly, as are Student Readers and other multimedia on the Hub.
Grades K–2 sample daily schedule

Foundational skills lesson
Teacher-led virtual Skills lesson on Zoom or a similar platform

Independent skills practice
Students use the Hub to practice sound-spellings in the eReader, using the audio as additional support. Then, they complete an activity page.

Independent Knowledge Read-Aloud
Students engage with the daily recorded Read-Aloud

Knowledge discussion and application
Teacher-led virtual knowledge discussion and application
Foundational Skills Boost
For students in grades 1–2, we recommend setting aside an additional 30 minutes for Foundational Skills Boost lessons covering unfinished instruction from the previous year. Foundational Skills Boost lessons are video modules that students can complete on their own at home.

Grades 3–5 sample daily schedule

Daily lesson and discussion
Teacher-led virtual lesson on Zoom or a similar platform

Reading and writing application
Students use the Hub to access the eReader, using the audio as additional support. Students complete daily application activities online.

Independent vocabulary practice
Students work on vocabulary in the Vocab App on the Hub.

Optional novel study (grades 4–5)
Teacher-led virtual discussion in conjunction with independent reading and writing
Foundational Skills Boost
For students in grade 3, we recommend setting aside an additional 30 minutes for Foundational Skills Boost lessons covering unfinished instruction from the previous year. Foundational Skills Boost lessons are video modules that students can complete on their own at home.

Resources for remote learning with limited student access to technology
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How to use Amplify CKLA during hybrid learning
We know that back to school will look different for every district. You may be considering staggered schedules or alternating between remote and in-person days. Amplify CKLA’s resources for hybrid learning ensure that students continue to develop critical foundational skills both in the classroom and at home.
Resources for hybrid learning with student access to technology
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Eureka Math²
Level K
Module 1: Counting and Cardinality
Topic A: Classify to Make Categories and Count
| Lesson 1: Compare objects based on their attributes. | Connecting Cubes |
| Lesson 3: Classify objects into two categories and count. | Skye’s Style |
Topic B: Answer How Many Questions with Up to 5 Objects
| Lesson 3: Sort by Same Color | Matching Groups |
Topic C: Write Numerals and Create Sets of Up to 5 Objects
| Lesson 10: Count out a group of objects to match a numeral. | Designing Shoes with Skye |
Topic E: Answer How Many Questions with Up to 10 Objects
| Lesson 19: Organize, count, and represent a collection of objects. | Investigate: Cafeteria Math |
| Lesson 20: Count objects in 5-group and array configurations and match to a numeral. | Fingers as Math Tools |
| Lesson 23: Conserve number regardless of the order in which objects are counted. | Moving and Grooving |
Module 2: Two- and Three- Dimensional Shapes
Topic A: Analyze and Name Two-Dimensional Shapes
| Lesson 1: Find and describe attributes of flat shapes. | So Much Sorting |
| Lesson 2: Classify shapes as triangles or nontriangles. | What’s That Shape Called? |
| Lesson 3: Classify shapes as circles, hexagons, or neither. | What’s That Shape Called? |
| Lesson 4: Classify shapes as rectangles or nonrectangles, with square rectangles as a special case. | Another Shape |
Module 3: Comparison
Topic C: Compare Sets Within 10
| Lesson 12: Relate more and fewer to length. | More, Fewer, or the Same Forest Friends |
| Lesson 13: Compare sets by using more than, fewer than, and the same number as. | Fingers and Counters Comparing Words |
Module 4: Composition and Decomposition
Topic A: Explore Composition and Decomposition
| Lesson 1: Compose flat shapes and count the parts. | Investigate: Casey’s Town |
| Lesson 2: Decompose flat shapes and count the parts. | How Many Objects? |
| Lesson 3: Decompose a group to identify parts and total. | How Many Objects in Pictures? |
Topic B: Record Composition and Decomposition
| Lesson 5: Sort to decompose a number in more than one way. | How Will You Count? |
| Lesson 6: Decompose a number in more than one way and record. | Harry Explores the Ocean |
Module 5: Addition and Subtraction
Topic A: Represent Addition
| Lesson 1: Represent add to with result unknown story problems by using drawings and numbers. | What Does It Mean to Add? |
Topic B: Represent Subtraction
| Lesson 8: Understand taking away as a type of subtraction. | What Does It Mean to Subtract? |
Topic C: Make Sense of Problems
| Lesson 15: Identify the action in a problem to represent and solve it. | The Bus Depot |
Level 1
Module 1: Counting, Comparison, and Addition
Topic A: Count and Compare with Data
| Lesson 2: Organize and represent data to compare two categories. | Shapes Ying Saw |
Module 2: Addition and Subtraction Relationships
Topic A: Reason About Take From Situations
| Lesson 1: Represent result unknown problems and record as addition or subtraction number sentences. | Packing for a Picnic |
| Lesson 3: Subtract 1 or subtract 1 less than the total. | What’s the Difference? Leaping Lily Pads! |
Topic B: Relate and Distinguish Addition and Subtraction
| Lesson 5: Use the Read–Draw–Write process to solve result unknown problems. | Investigate: Let’s Grow! |
| Lesson 6: Represent and solve related addition and subtraction result unknown problems. | Tutu’s Garden in Maui |
| Lesson 7: Count on or count back to solve related addition and subtraction problems. | The Kalo Plants |
Topic C: Find an Unknown Part in Change Unknown Problems
| Lesson 8: Interpret and find an unknown change. | Replanting Huli |
| Lesson 11: Represent and solve take from with change unknown problems. | Helping Others A Community Working Together |
Module 3: Properties of Operations to Make Easier Problems
Topic B: Make Easier Problems to Add
| Lesson 9: Make ten with either addend. | Making 10 Kitten Coaster |
Topic D: Reason about Ten as a Unit to Add or Subtract
| Lesson 16: Identify ten as a unit. | Same Number, Different Ways |
Module 5: Place Value Concepts to Compare, Add, and Subtract
Topic A: Grouping Units in Tens and Ones
| Lesson 2: Count a collection and record the total in units of tens and ones. | Investigate: Game Points Meeting Yara |
| Lesson 4: Represent a number in multiple ways by trading 10 ones for a ten. | It’s a Match |
| Lesson 6: Add 10 or take 10 from a two-digit number. | How Many Cubes? |
Topic D: Addition and Subtraction of Tens
| Lesson 15: Count on and back by tens to add and subtract. | Boris’s Thimbles |
| Lesson 16: Use related single-digit facts to add and subtract multiples of ten. | How Many Tens? |
Level 2
Module 1: Place Value Concepts Through Metric Measurement and Data · Place Value, Counting, and Comparing Within 1,000
Topic A: Representing Data to Solve Problems
| Lesson 3: Use information presented in a bar graph to solve put together and take apart problems. | Exploring Within 10 Ways to Make 10 |
| Lesson 4: Use information presented in a bar graph to solve compare problems. | Awesome Aquariums |
Topic C: Estimate, Measure, and Compare Lengths
| Lesson 12: Model and reason about the difference in length. | Lengths of Jungle Animals |
Topic D: Solve Compare Problems by Using the Ruler as a Number Line
| Lesson 15: Use a measuring tape as a number line to add efficiently. | Investigate: Where Am I? Time to Line Up! What’s That Number? |
| Lesson 17: Represent and solve comparison problems by using measurement contexts. | Greater Than, Less Than, or Equal to |
Module 2: Addition and Subtraction Within 200
Topic A: Simplifying Strategies for Addition
| Lesson 1: Reason about addition with four addends. | Investigate: Activities at the Block Party |
Module 5: Money, Data, and Customary Measurement
Topic A: Problem Solving with Coins and Bills
| Lesson 1: Organize, count, and represent a collection of coins. | Discovering Coins (Part 1) Discovering Coins (Part 2) |
| Lesson 2: Use the fewest number of coins to make a given value. | How Much Money? |
| Lesson 5: Use different strategies to make 1 dollar or to make change from 1 dollar. | The Toy Stand |
| Lesson 3: Solve one- and two-step word problems to find the total value of a group of coins. | The Craft Stand at the Block Party |
Topic B: Use Customary Units to Measure and Estimate Length
| Lesson 12: Identify unknown numbers on a number line by using the interval as a reference point. | In Full Bloom |
Topic C: Use Measurement and Data to Solve Problems
| Lesson 15: Use measurement data to create a line plot. | Messy Measurements |
| “Lesson 16: Create a line plot to represent data and ask and answer questions. 60 min | Bracelets and Wristbands |
Level 3
Module 1: Multiplication and Division with Units of 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10
Topic A: Conceptual Understanding of Multiplication
| Lesson 2: Interpret equal groups as multiplication. | Equal Groups |
Topic C: Properties of Multiplication
| Lesson 10: Demonstrate the commutative property of multiplication using a unit of 2 and the array model. | Arrays of Flavor |
Topic D: Two Interpretations of Division
| Lesson 15: Model division as an unknown factor problem. | It’s Chili in Here |
Module 2: Place Value Concepts Through Metric Measurement
Topic A: Understanding Place Value Concepts Through Metric Measurement
| Lesson 1: Connect the composition of 1 kilogram to the composition of 1 thousand. | Investigate: Create a Photo Gallery |
Topic C: Simplifying Strategies to Find Sums and Differences
| Lesson 13: Collect and represent data in a scaled bar graph and solve related problems. | Puppy Pile |
| Lesson 14: Use place value understanding to add and subtract like units. | Adding Your Way |
| Lesson 15: Use the associative property to make the next ten to add. | Panda Patterns |
| Lesson 16: Use compensation to add. | How Would You Solve It? |
Topic D: Two- and Three-Digit Measurement Addition and Subtraction
| Lesson 20: Add measurements using the standard algorithm to compose larger units once. | What is an Algorithm? Using Fewer Digits |
| Lesson 21: Add measurements using the standard algorithm to compose larger units twice. | Determining Sums of 2 or More Addends Adding Strategically |
Module 3: Multiplication and Division with Units of 0, 1, 6, 7, 8, and 9
Topic B: Multiplication and Division Concepts with an Emphasis on the Unit of 7
| Lesson 11: Use the break apart and distribute strategy to divide with units of 7. | Relating Quotients to Familiar Products |
| Lesson 12: Solve one-step word problems involving multiplication and division. | Division and Multiplication Equations |
Module 4: Multiplication and Area
Topic A: Foundations for Understanding Area
| Lesson 2: Recognize area as an attribute of polygons. | Investigate: Comparing Rugs Which Covers More Space? |
| Lesson 3: Tile polygons to find their areas. | Tiling Figures Area Hunt |
Topic B: Concepts of Area Measurement
| Lesson 6: Tile rectangles with squares to make arrays and relate the side lengths to area. | Rectangles and Arrays |
| Lesson 7: Draw rows and columns to complete a rectangular array and determine its area. | Area Hunt |
Module 6: Geometry, Measurement, and Data
Topic D: Collecting and Displaying Dat
| Lesson 23: Solve problems by creating scaled picture graphs and scaled bar graphs. | 2, 5, or 10? |
Level 4
Module 1: Place Value Concepts for Addition and Subtraction
Topic A: Multiplication as Multiplicative Comparison
| Lesson 1: Interpret multiplication as multiplicative comparison. | How Does It Grow? |
Module 2: Place Value Concepts for Multiplication and Division
Topic E: Factors and Multiples
| Lesson 24: Recognize that a number is a multiple of each of its factors. | Hamster Homes Factor or Multiple? |
| Lesson 25: Explore properties of prime and composite numbers up to 100 by using multiples. | A Number Game |
Module 4: Foundations for Fraction Operations
Lesson 1: Decompose whole numbers into a sum of unit fractions.
| Lesson 1: Decompose whole numbers into a sum of unit fractions. | Investigate: Building Your Own Number Line |
| Lesson 3: Decompose fractions into a sum of fractions. | Math Pizzeria |
| Lesson 4: Represent fractions by using various fraction models. | Fraction Strips Chop It |
| Lesson 5: Rename fractions greater than 1 as mixed numbers. | All Kinds of Fractions |
Topic D: Add and Subtract Fractions
| Lesson 21: Solve addition and subtraction word problems and estimate the reasonableness of the answers. | Pizza Problems |
Topic F: Repeated Addition of Fractions as Multiplication
| Lesson 32: Multiply a fraction by a whole number by using the associative property. | Equal Groups of Fractions |
Module 5: Place Value Concepts for Decimal Fractions
Topic A: Exploration of Tenths
| Lesson 1: Organize, count, and represent a collection of money. | Investigate: Different Units |
| Lesson 3: Represent tenths as a place value unit. | A New Way to Write Tenths |
| Lesson 4: Write mixed numbers in decimal form with tenths. | A New Way to Write Tenths |
Topic B: Tenths and Hundredths
| Lesson 5: Decompose 1 one and express hundredths in fraction form and decimal form. | Are They Equivalent? |
| Lesson 6: Represent hundredths as a place value unit. | A New Way to Write Hundredths |
| Lesson 7: Write mixed numbers in decimal form with hundredths. | A New Way to Write Hundredths |
Topic C: Comparison of Decimal Numbers
| Lesson 10: Use pictorial representations to compare decimal numbers. | How Can You Compare? |
| Lesson 11: Compare and order decimal numbers. | Robot Factory What’s the Order? |
Level 5
Module 1: Place Value Concepts for Multiplication and Division with Whole Numbers
Topic B: Multiplication of Whole Numbers
| Lesson 8: Multiply two- and three-digit numbers by two-digit numbers by using the distributive property. | Partial Products Everywhere |
| Lesson 9: Multiply two- and three-digit numbers by two-digit numbers by using the standard algorithm. | How Do They Compare? |
Topic C: Division of Whole Numbers
| Lesson 15: Divide three-digit numbers by two-digit numbers in problems that result in two-digit quotients. | Emptying the Water Tank |
Module 2: Addition and Subtraction with Fractions
Topic A: Fractions and Division
| Lesson 1: Interpret a fraction as division. | Investigate: Sharing Sandwiches Sharing More Sandwiches Dance Breaks |
| Lesson 3: Represent fractions as division by using models. | Making Generalizations |
| Lesson 4: Solve word problems involving division and fractions. | Division Story Problems |
Module 3: Multiplication and Division with Fractions
Topic B: Multiplication of Fractions
| Lesson 7: Multiply fractions less than 1 by unit fractions pictorially. | Investigate: Folding Paper |
| Lesson 8: Multiply fractions less than 1 pictorially. | Parts of Parts One Part of One Part Rows and Columns |
| Lesson 9: Multiply fractions by unit fractions by making simpler problems. | Messy Multiplication |
| Lesson 10: Multiply fractions greater than 1 by fractions. | Making Food Installing Turf |
| Lesson 11: Multiply fractions. | Applying Fraction Multiplication Chores at Animal Haven The Re-size-inator |
Module 5: Addition and Multiplication with Area and Volume
Topic C: Volume Concepts
| Lesson 17: Find the volume of right rectangular prisms by packing with unit cubes and counting. | Which is Largest |
| Lesson 18: Find the volume of right rectangular prisms by packing with improvised units. | Packing the Barge |
Topic D: Volume and the Operations of Multiplication and Addition
| Lesson 25: Find the volumes of solid figures composed of right rectangular prisms. | Putting It Together Figures Made of Prisms |
Level 6
Module 1: Ratios, Rates, and Percents
Topic A: Ratios
| Lesson 2: Introduction to Ratios | Pizza Maker |
Topic B: Collections of Equivalent Ratios
| Lesson 6: Ratios Tables and Double Number Lines | Fruit Lab |
| Lesson 9: Multiplication Patterns in Ratio Relationships | Disaster Preparation |
Topic D: Rates
| Lesson 16: Speed | World Records |
| Lesson 17: Rates | Many Measurements Soft Serve |
| Lesson 18: Comparing Rates | Welcome to the Robot Factory |
| Lesson 19: Unit Rates to Convert Units | Model Trains More Soft Serve |
| Lesson 20: Solving Rate Problems | Lucky Duckies |
Module 2: Operations with Fractions and Multi-Digit Numbers
Topic B: Dividing Fractions
| Lesson 6: Dividing a Whole Number by a Fraction | Flour Planner |
| Lesson 8: Dividing Fractions by Making Common Denominators | Fill the Gap |
Topic C: Dividing Fractions Fluently
| Lesson 9: Dividing Fractions by Using Tape Diagrams | Puzzling Areas |
Topic D: Decimal Addition, Subtraction, and Multiplication
| Lesson 13: Decimal Addition and Subtraction | Dishing Out Decimals |
| Lesson 16: Applications of Decimal Operations | Decimal Diagrams and Algorithms |
Topic F: Decimal Division
| Lesson 21: Dividing a Decimals by a Whole Number | Movie Time |
| Lesson 22: Dividing a Decimal by a Decimal Greater than 1 | Movie Time |
| Lesson 23: Dividing a Decimal by a Decimal Less than 1 | Movie Time |
Module 3: Rational Numbers
Topic A: Integers and Rational Numbers
| Lesson 1: Positive and Negative Numbers | Can You Dig It? |
| Lesson 3: Rational Numbers | Order in the Class |
Module 4: Expressions and One-Step Equations
Topic B: Expressions and Real-World Problems
| Lesson 9: Addition and Subtraction Expressions from the Real-World | Subway Fares |
Topic C: Equivalent Expressions Using the Properties of Operations
| Lesson 13: The Distributive Property | Products and Sums |
Topic D: Equations and Inequalities
| Lesson 17: Equations and Solutions | Five Equations |
| Lesson 18: Inequalities and Solutions | Hanging It Up Tunnel Travels |
| Lesson 19: Solving Equations with Addition and Subtraction | Weight for It |
| Lesson 20: Solving Equations with Multiplication and Division | Hanging Around |
| Lesson 21: Solving Problems with Equations | Swap and Solve |
Module 5: Area, Surface Area, and Volume
Topic A: Areas of Polygons
| Lesson 1: The Area of a Parallelogram | Exploring Parallelograms, Part 1 |
| Lesson 2: The Area of a Right Triangle | Off the Grid, Part 2 |
| Lesson 3: The Area of a Triangle | Exploring Parallelograms, Part 2 Off the Grid, Part 1 |
| Lesson 4: Areas of Triangles in Real-World Situations | Exploring Triangles |
Topic B: Problem Solving with Area
| Lesson 5: Perimeter and Area in the Coordinate Plane | Shapes on a Plane |
| Lesson 6: Problem Solving with Area in the Coordinate Plane | Letters |
| Lesson 7: Areas of Trapezoids and Other Polygons | Triangles and Parallelograms |
| Lesson 8: Areas of Composite Rigures in Real-World Situations | Pile of Polygons |
Topic C: Nets and Surface Area
| Lesson 12: From Nets to Surface Area | Renata’s Stickers |
Module 6: Statistics
Topic A: Understanding Distributions
| Lesson 2: Describing a Data Distribution | Hoops |
| Lesson 3: Creating a Dot Plot | Minimum Wage |
| Lesson 4: Creating a Histogram | The Plot Thickens |
Topic B: Mean and Mean Absolute Deviation
| Lesson 7: Using the Mean to Describe Center | Toy Cars |
Level 7
Module 1: Ratios and Proportional Relationships
Topic A: Understanding Proportional Relationships
| Lesson 1: An Experiment with Ratios and Rates | Paint |
| Lesson 2: Exploring Tables and Proportional Relationships | Two and Two |
| Lesson 4: Exploring Graphs of Proportional Relationships | DinoPops |
Topic C: Scale Drawing and Proportional Relationships
| Lesson 14: Extreme Bicycles | Scaling Machines |
| Lesson 15: Scale Drawing | Scaling Robots |
| Lesson 16: Using Scale Factor | Scale Factor Challenges |
| Lesson 17: Finding Actual Distances from Scale | Make it Scale |
| Lesson 18: Relating Areas of Scale Drawing | Tiles Will It Fit |
Module 2: Operations with Rational Numbers
Topic A: Adding Rational Numbers
| Lesson 2: Adding Integers | Floats and Anchors |
Topic B: Subtracting Rational Numbers
| Lesson 8: Subtracting Integers, Part 1 | More Floats and Anchors |
| Lesson 10: Subtracting Rational Numbers, Part 1 | Draw Your Own |
Topic E: Numberical Expressions with Rational Numbers
| Lesson 25: Writing and Evaluating Expressions with Rational Numbers | Integer Puzzles |
Module 3: Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities
Topic A: Equivalent Expressions
| Lesson 1: Equivalent Expressions | Collect the Squares |
Topic B: Unknown Angle Measurements
| Lesson 7: Angle Relationships and Unknown Angle Measures | Friendly Angles |
Topic C: Solving Equations
| Lesson 11: Dominoes and Dominoes | Keeping it True |
Topic D: Inequalities
| Lesson 18: Understanding Inequalities and Their Solutions | I Saw the Signs |
| Lesson 19: Using Equations to Solve Inequalities | Unbalanced Hangers |
| Lesson 20: Preserving and Reversing | Shira the Sheep |
| Lesson 21: Solving Two-Step Inequalities | Budgeting |
| Lesson 22: Solving Problems Involving Inequalities | Write Them and Solve Them |
Module 4: Geometry
Topic A: Constructing Geometric Figures
| Lesson 3: Side Lengths of a Triangle | Can You Build It |
| Lesson 4: Angles of a Triangle | Friendly Angles |
Topic C: Circumference and Areas of Circles
| Lesson 10: The Outside of a Cicle | Measuring Around |
| Lesson 11: The Inside of a Circle | Why Pi? |
| Lesson 14: Composite Figures with Circular Regions | Area Challenges |
Module 5: Percent and Applications of Percent
Topic A: Proportion and Percent
| Lesson 3: Percent as a Rate per 100 | Mosaics |
| Lesson 4: Proportion and Percent | More and Less |
Topic C: More of Less Than 100%
| Lesson 10: Percent Increase | All the Equations |
Topic D: Applications of Percent
| Lesson 16: Markups and Discount | 100% |
| Lesson 18: Simple Interest – Solving for Unknown Values | Percent Machines |
Topic E: Problems Involving Percent
| Lesson 20: Making Money, Day 1 | Back in My Day |
Module 6: Probability and Populations
Topic A: Calculating and Interpreting Probabilities
| Lesson 2: Empirical Probability | How Likely |
| Lesson 4: Theoretical Probability | Prob-bear-bilities |
Topic B: Estimating Probabilities
| Lesson 7: The Law of Large Numbers | Is It Fair? |
Topic C: Random Sampling
| Lesson 11: Populations and Samples | Crab Island |
Level 8
Module 1: Scientific Notation, Exponents, and Irrational Numbers
Topic A: Introduction to Scientific Notation
| Lesson 2: Comparing Large Numbers | Specific and Scientific (formerly Solar System) |
| Lesson 4: Adding and Subtracting Numbers Written in Scientific Notation | Balance the Scale |
Topic B: Properties and Definitions of Exponents
| Lesson 6: More Properties of Exponents | Circles |
| Lesson 7: Making Sense of the Exponent 0 | Power Pairs |
Topic D: Perfect Squares, Perfect Cubes, and the Pythagorean Theorem
| Lesson 18: The Pythagorean Theorem | Triangle Tracing Turtle |
| Lesson 19: Using the Pythagorean Theorem | Taco Truck |
| Lesson 23: Ordering Irrational Numbers | Root Down |
Module 2: Rigid Motions and Congruent Figures
Topic A: Rigid Motion and Their Properties
| Lesson 1: Motions in the Plane | Transformers Moving Day |
| Lesson 2: Translations | Spinning, Flipping, Sliding Moving Day |
| Lesson 4: Translations and Reflections on the Coordinate Plane | Getting Coordinated, Part 1 |
| Lesson 6: Rotations on the Coordinate Plane | Getting Coordinated, Part 2 |
Topic B: Rigid Motions and Congruent Figures
| Lesson 8: Sequencing the Rigid Motions | Transformation Golf |
Topic C: Angle Relationships
| Lesson 12: Lines Cut by a Transversal | Puzzling It Out |
Module 3: Dilations and Similar Figures
Topic A: Dilations
| Lesson 1: Exploring Dilations | Sketchy Dilations |
| Lesson 3: Reductions and More Enlargments | Dilation Mini Golf |
Topic B: Properties of Dilations
| Lesson 5: Figures and Dilations | Social Scavenger Hunt |
Module 4: Linear Equations in One and Two Variables
Topic A: Linear Equations in One Variable
| Lesson 3: Solving Linear Equations with Rational Coefficients | Equation Roundtable |
Topic D: Slope of a Line
| Lesson 16: Proportional Relationships and Slope | Turtle Time Trials |
| Lesson 17: Slopes of Rising Lines | Flags Ups and Downs |
| Lesson 18: Slopes of Falling Lines | Flags Water Cooler Ups and Downs |
Topic E: Different Forms of a Linear Equation
| Lesson 20: Slope-Intercept form of the Equation of a Line | Stacking Cups (Optional) |
| Lesson 21: Slopes and Parallel Lines | Translations |
Module 5: Systems of Linear Equations
Topic A: Solving Systems of Linear Equations Graphically
| Lesson 1: Solving Problems with Equations and Their Graphs | Make Them Balance |
Topic B: Solving Systems of Linear Equations Algebraically
| Lesson 6: Solving Systems of Linear Equations without Graphing | Line Zapper |
Module 6: Functions and Bivariate Statistics
Topic A: Functions
| Lesson 1: Motion and Speed | Turtle Crossing |
| Lesson 2: Definition of a Function | Guess My Rule |
Topic B: Linear and Nonlinear Functions
| Lesson 9: Increasing and Decreasing Functions | The Tortoise and the Hare |
Topic C: Bivariate Numerical Data
| Lesson 11: Scatter Plots | Robots Dapper Cats |
| Lesson 12: Patterns in Scatter Plots | Interpreting Scatter Plots |
| Lesson 13: Informally Fitting a Line to Data | Find the Fit (called Fit Fights in Desmos Math) |
| Lesson 14: Determining an Equation of a Line Fit to Data | Interpreting Slopes |
| Lesson 15: Linear Model | Animal Brains |
| Lesson 16: Using the Investigative Process | Scatter Plot City |
| Lesson 17: Analyzing the Modle | Scatter Plot City |
Topic D: Bivariate Categorical Data
| Lesson 18: Bivariate Categorical Data | Finding Associations |
Topic E: Volume
Algebra 1
Module 1: Expressions, Equations and Inequalities in One Variable
| Lesson 1: The Growing Pattern of Ducks | More Visual Patterns |
| Lesson 8: Solution Sets for Equations and Inequalities in One Variable | Same Position |
| Lesson 9: Solving Linear Equations in One Variable | Working Backwards Solving Strategies |
| Lesson 12: Rearranging Formulas | Subway Seats Various Variables Shelley the Snail Five Representations |
| Lesson 13: Solving Linear Inequalities in One Variable | Pizza Delivery |
| Lesson 21: Describing Variability in a Univariate Distribution with Standard Deviation | Finding Desmo |
Module 2: Equations and Inequalities in Two Variables
| Lesson 1: Solution Sets of Linear Equations in Two Variables | Subway Seats Various Variables Shelley the Snail Five Representations |
| Lesson 6: Applications of Linear Equations and Inequalities | Subway Seats Various Variables Shelley the Snail Five Representations Pizza Delivery |
| Lesson 8: Systems of Linear Equations in Two Variables | Shape It Up Lizard Lines |
| Lesson 12: Solution Sets of Systems of Linear Inequalities | Quilts |
| Lesson 13: Graphing Solution Sets of Systems of Linear Inequalities | Seeking Solutions |
| Lesson 16: Using Lines to Model Bivariate Quantitative Data | City Data |
| Lesson 17: Modeling Relationships with a Line | Penguin Populations |
| Lesson 18: Calculating and Analyzing Residuals | Residual Fruit |
| Lesson 20: Interpreting Correlation | Correlation Coefficient How Hot Is It? City Slopes |
| Lesson 21: Analyzing Bivariate Quantitative Data | Behind the Headlines |
Module 3: Functions and Their Representations
| Lesson 7: Exploring Key Features of a Function and Its Graph | Craft-a-Graph |
| Lesson 17: Piecewise Linear Functions in Context | Pumpkin Prices |
Module 4: Quadratic Functions
| Topic A: Quadratic Functions and Their Graphs | Robot Launch |
| Lesson 1: Falling Objects | Quadratic Visual Patterns |
| Lesson 2: Projectile Motion | Stomp Rockets |
| Lesson 3: Analyzing Functions That Model Projectile Motion | Stomp Rockets in Space |
| Lesson 4: Graphs of Quadratic Functions | On the Fence Plenty of Parabolas |
| Lesson 5: Solving Equations that Contain Factored Expressions | Shooting Stars |
| Lesson 11: Graphing Quadratic Functions from Factored Form | Two for One Parabola Zapper |
| Lesson 14: Solving Quadratic Equations by Completing the Square | Square Tactic |
| Lesson 27: Search and Rescue Helicopter | City Data |
Module 5: Linear and Exponential Functions
| Topic A: Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences | More Visual Patterns Sequence Carnival |
| Lesson 8: Exponential Functions | Carlos’s Fish |
| Topic A: Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences | Sequence Carnival |
| Topic A: Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences | Revisiting Visual Patterns, Part 1 |
| Lesson 18: Modeling Populations | Sorting Relationships |
| Lesson 20: Comparing Growth of Functions | Plane, Train, and Automobile Sorting Relationships |
Module 6: Modeling with Functions
| Topic A: Modeling Bivariate Quantitative Data | City Data |
| Topic B: Developing Models for Contexts | Detroit’s Population, Part 1 Detroit’s Population, Part 2 |
Embracing artificial intelligence in the math classroom

Artificial intelligence seems to be everywhere these days. We use it when we ask Alexa or Siri for the morning weather report. We use it when GPS tells us how to best avoid traffic. We use it when we chill at the end of the day with a recommendation from Netflix.
But what about during the day—and specifically, at school? Even more specifically, can AI be leveraged to enhance the math classroom?
“While AI is an amazing tool, you’ve really got to make sure that you are focusing in on your expertise as well,” says veteran math educator and STEM instructional coach Kristen Moore, “And saying, ‘How can I use this to make something better?’ and not just, ‘How can I use this to make something?’”
In this post, we’ll talk about the current state of AI in math education, and how it can support educators in making math better. (SPOILER: It’s not going to replace you!)
First, some STEM learning for us: What is artificial intelligence?
Artificial intelligence, or AI, refers to the development of computer systems able to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence.
It involves creating algorithms and systems that enable computers to learn from data, adapt to new situations, and make decisions or predictions.
AI aims to mimic human cognitive functions such as understanding language, recognizing patterns, solving problems, and making decisions. It encompasses a range of techniques and technologies, including machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, and robotics.
The term “artificial intelligence” was introduced in 1956. The availability of vast amounts of data and advancements in computer power in the 2010s led to additional breakthroughs. And with the proliferation of smartphones, smart devices, and the internet, AI technologies began to work their way into our homes, cars, pockets, and everyday lives.
What’s the state of AI in education?
AI is already commonplace in schools and classrooms. Here are just a few examples:
- Adaptive learning: This software uses AI algorithms to adjust the difficulty and content of lessons based on a student’s performance, helping students remain engaged and challenged at their optimal level.
- Assistive technologies: AI helps students with disabilities by providing assistive technologies like text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools, making educational content more accessible.
- Plagiarism detection: These tools use AI algorithms to identify instances of copied or unoriginal content in students’ assignments, essays, and projects.
- Data analysis for teachers: AI analyzes data from student assessments to identify trends and insights, helping teachers make informed decisions about instructional strategies. It can also predict students’ performance trends, helping teachers identify at-risk students early and intervene to provide additional support.
- Grammar, spelling, and style checkers: AI can provide real-time feedback to students (and teachers!) on their writing work.
Embracing AI technology in your math classroom
While AI is not here to replace teachers, it is here to stay. And experts say it’s only going to become more commonplace. But despite how common AI is already—both outside and inside school—not all teachers are familiar with its numerous applications and potential. Now is a great time for educators to start exploring its uses and get ahead of the curve.
Here are a few easy entry points for math teachers.
ChatGPT: A common AI tool, ChatGPT is designed to understand and generate human-like text based on the input it receives. It’s trained on a wide range of internet text, which enables it to generate responses to a vast array of prompts and questions.
Most students have likely experimented with ChatGPT, while teachers—though aware of it—are less likely to use it. ChatGPT has highly practical applications for both groups, though—including in the math (and science) classroom.
It can, for example, help teachers plan interesting, relevant math lessons for their students. Kristen Moore, who discusses this topic on Math Teacher Lounge, suggests that math teachers use ChatGPT to:
- Connect topics to student interests and vice-versa. (Teachers can ask ChatGPT for real-life applications of polynomials and select those that might pique student interest, or ask about math applications derived from students’ hobbies and pursuits.)
- Generate word problems (including step-by-step solutions), lessons, projects and rubrics, and more.
Toward the (near) future
As AI advances, it will continue to revolutionize education. Here are a few time-saving ways that educators can look forward to using it in their classrooms.
- AI tutors: AI-powered virtual tutors will help math students with homework questions and provide explanations for various concepts. These tutors can be available at home 24/7, allowing students to seek an AI homework helper whenever they need it.
- Automatic graders: Some AI tools can automatically grade math work, including multiple-choice and short-answer assignments. These tutors can be available at home 24/7 in any household with internet access, allowing students to seek more personalized instruction.
- Personalized learning paths: These AI-powered platforms will work particularly well for math students by adapting to each student’s skill level and pace, offering tailored exercises and challenges that cater to their strengths and identify areas of improvement. They will analyze students’ performance and adjust the difficulty of content, ensuring that students get targeted support and opportunities to progress.
More to explore
To dive deeper into AI in math education—and get rolling with AI in your classroom—check out this two-episode mini-series on our Math Teacher Lounge podcast focused on just that:
- Season 5, Episode 7: Discerning the role of AI in education with former teacher, current education technology entrepreneur, and general partner at Reach Capital Jennifer Carolan, who has a lot to share about how AI can partner with educators to foster social learning opportunities.
- Season 5, Episode 8: Utilizing AI as a teaching tool with educator Kristen Moore, who discusses how she uses ChatGPT to revolutionize student learning and streamline lesson planning.
“I’m a believer that learning is inherently social,” says Carolan, who is quick to emphasize how technology can enhance that quality, not replace it. The same can be said for the role teachers play in the classroom—a role technology can support, but never take away. To learn more about this topic (and discuss it with your fellow educators!), head to our Math Teacher Lounge community!
Amplify Desmos Math California
Welcome, K–8 Reviewers!
We’re honored to introduce you to Amplify Desmos Math California. We’re confident you’ll find this comprehensive program to be a powerful tool for bringing the vision of the California Math Framework to life in classrooms across the state.
Please start with the video on the right to learn how to navigate the program and access key features referenced within our submission. Below you’ll find additional resources to support your review.
Your Review Samples
As a curriculum that incorporates both print and digital resources, it’s important that you explore both our physical materials (delivered to you in grade-specific tubs) and our digital materials (accessible through our platform). We invite you to explore both types of resources using the instructions and tips below.
Print Samples
Your print samples should have arrived in grade-specific tubs with a copy of two Reviewer binders. The K-5 Reviewer binder is contained within the Grade K shipping box and the Grade 6-8 Reviewer binder can be located in the Grade 6 shipping box. As you begin the process of organizing your materials, please refer to the inventory checklist found inside each tub as well as within your Reviewer Binder.
Digital Samples
In order to access your digital samples, you’ll need to log into our platform using your unique login credentials found on a Digital Access Flyer inside of your Reviewer Binder. Once you have located the flyer:
- Click the orange button below to access the platform.
- Click “Log in with Amplify.”
- Enter the username and password provided on your Digital Access Flyer.
Navigation Tips
Below you will find helpful tips for navigating Amplify Desmos Math California. We recommend reading these pages alongside the program’s print materials and digital experience to gain a deeper understanding of the program.
Click the links below to read about navigating program features including:
- Navigating the print program (Grades K–1)
- Navigating the print program (Grades 2–5)
- Navigating the print program (Grades 6–8)
- Navigating the digital program
Built for California
The Amplify Desmos Math California program is designed around the vision articulated in the California Mathematics Framework to enable all California students to become powerful users of mathematics. Our program incorporates the latest research in student learning, meaning that we:
- Focus on the Big Ideas: Amplify Desmos Math California’s courses, units, and lessons are centered around the Big Ideas. Big Ideas, like standards, are not considered in isolation. In addition to each unit and lesson’s focal Big Ideas, Amplify Desmos Math California also provides connections among the Big Ideas across units and lessons.
- Center on open and engaging tasks: Amplify Desmos Math California is grounded in engaging tasks meant to address students’ often-asked question: “Why am I learning this?” Students are invited into learning with low-floor, high-ceiling tasks that provide an entry point for all. Open tasks in Amplify Desmos Math California provide the space for students to try on multiple strategies and represent their thinking in different ways, and allow student explanation and discussion to serve as the center of the classroom. All lessons offer both print and digital representations of lessons.
- Provide enhanced digital experiences: Amplify Desmos Math California includes digitally-enhanced lesson activities, incorporating interactive digital tools alongside print materials. These purposefully-placed resources allow students to visualize mathematical concepts, receive actionable feedback while practicing, encounter personalized learning support from an onscreen tutor, and engage in discussions about their thinking and approaches.
- Treat core instruction and differentiation as integral partners: The Amplify Desmos Math California curriculum provides teachers with lessons, strategies, and resources to eliminate barriers and increase access to grade-level content without reducing the mathematical demand of tasks. Every activity has multiple entry points to ensure that all students are supported and challenged. Intervention and personalized learning activities are directly connected to lesson content and offer students the individualized support as they dive into the mathematics.
Category 1: Mathematics Content/Alignment with the Standards
Standards Maps
The links below provide the Standards Maps for Amplify Desmos Math California for each grade level.
Evaluation Criteria Map
Linked here is the Evaluation Criteria Map for grades K–8. Please note that you will need to be logged into the digital platform to access the links in the Evaluation Criteria Map.
Standards for Mathematical Practice
The links below provide the alignment of Amplify Desmos Math California to the Standards for Mathematical Practice at each grade level.
Drivers of Investigation and Content Connections
Amplify Desmos Math California incorporates the Drivers of Investigation (DIs) and Content Connection (CCs) throughout the program. Throughout the year, students engage with open and authentic tasks of varying durations — from lesson activities to unit-level Explore lessons and longer course-level Investigations. Every lesson and investigation opportunity is grounded around the why, how, and what of the learning experience, and helps teachers bring mathematical concepts to life.

California English Language Development Standards
The links below provide the alignment of Amplify Desmos Math California to the California English Language Development Standards at each grade level.
California Environmental Principles and Concepts
Select lessons, performance tasks, and investigations across grade levels in Amplify Desmos Math California are aligned to one or more of the California Environmental Principles and Concepts. Click the links below to view how the California Environmental Principles and Concepts are represented in each grade level.
Category 2: Program Organization
Amplify Desmos Math California 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.
Big Ideas
Amplify Desmos Math California’s courses, units, and lessons are centered around the Big Ideas. In addition to each unit and lesson’s focal Big Ideas, Amplify Desmos Math California also provides connections among the Big Ideas across units and lessons. Please refer to Keeping the Big Ideas at the Center (linked below) for specific lesson designs and alignment with the Big Ideas for each grade level.
Program Structure
Amplify Desmos Math California combines the best of problem-based lessons, intervention, personalized practice, and assessments into a coherent and engaging experience for both students and teachers.

Lessons and units in Amplify Desmos Math California are designed around a Proficiency Progression, a model that steps out problem-based learning by systematically building students’ curiosity into lasting grade-level understanding.

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.
Scope and Sequence
Below you can view the scope and sequence for each grade level.











Lesson Design and Structure

Amplify Desmos Math California is designed with a structured approach to problem-based learning that systematically builds on students’ curiosity and allows students to grapple with the Big Ideas of the California Framework. Every lesson activity is organized into a Launch, Monitor, Connect format.
- Launch: The launch is a short, whole-class conversation that creates a need or excitement, provides clarity, or helps students connect their prior knowledge or personal experience, which ensures that everyone has access to the upcoming work.
- Monitor: As students work individually, in pairs, or in groups, teachers explore student thinking, ask questions, and provide support to help move the conversations closer to the intended math learning goal.
- Connect: Teachers connect students’ ideas to the key learning goals of the lesson, facilitating class discussions that help synthesize and solidify the Big Ideas.
Each lesson within Amplify Desmos Math California follows the same structure.
- Warm-Up: Every Amplify Desmos Math California lesson begins with a whole class Warm-Up. Warm-Ups are an invitational Instructional Routine intended to provide a social moment at the start of the lesson in which every student has an opportunity to contribute. Warm-Ups may build fluency or highlight a strategy that may be helpful in the current lesson or act as an invitation into the math of the lesson.
- Lesson Activities: Each lesson includes one or two activities. These activities are the heart of each lesson. Students notice, wonder, explore, calculate, predict, measure, explain their thinking, use math to settle disputes, create challenges for their classmates, and more. Guidance is provided to help teachers launch, monitor, and connect student thinking over the course of the activity.
- Synthesis and Show What You Know: The Synthesis is an opportunity for the teacher and students to pull all the learning of the lesson together into a lesson takeaway. Students engage in a facilitated discussion to consolidate and refine their ideas about the learning goals, and the teacher synthesizes students’ learning. Show What You Know is a daily assessment opportunity for students to show what they know about the learning goals and what they are still learning.
- Centers (K–5): Centers are hands-on activities for students in grades K–5 to play collaboratively to strengthen their understanding of key skills and concepts. In grades K–1, students have Daily Center Time built into every lesson.
- Practice and Differentiation: Daily practice problems for the day’s lesson are included both online and in the print Student Edition, including fluency, test practice, and spiral review.
Kindergarten–Grade 1

Grades 2–5

Grades 6–8

Routines
Amplify Desmos Math California features a variety of lesson routines. Instructional routines and Math Language Routines (MLRs) are used within lessons to highlight student-developed language and ideas, cultivate conversation, support mathematical sense-making, and promote meta-cognition. Both are called out at point-of-use within the Teacher Edition and Teacher Presentation Screens. Below are the types of routines used throughout the Amplify Desmos Math California curriculum:
Math Language Routines
- MLR1: Stronger and Clearer Each Time
- MLR2: Collect and Display
- MLR3: Critique, Correct, Clarify
- MLR5: Co-Craft Questions
- MLR6: Three Reads
- MLR7: Compare and Connect
- MLR 8: Discussion Supports
Instructional Routines
- Decide and Defend
- Notice and Wonder
- Number Talk
- Tell a Story
- Think-Pair-Share
- Which One Doesn’t Belong?
Category 3: Assessments
A variety of performance data in Amplify Desmos Math California provides evidence of student learning, while helping students bolster their skills and understanding.
Unit-Level Assessment
Amplify Desmos Math California has embedded unit assessments that offer key insights into students’ conceptual understanding of math. These assessments provide regular, actionable information about how students are thinking about and processing math, with both auto-scoring and in-depth rubrics that help teachers anticipate and respond to students’ learning needs.
- Pre-Unit Check: Each unit in grades 2–8 begins with a formative assessment designed to identify the student skills that will be particularly relevant to the upcoming unit. This check is agnostic to the standards covered in the following unit and serves not as a deficit-based acknowledgment of what students do not know, but rather as an affirmation of the knowledge and skills with which students come in.
- End-of-Unit Assessment: Students engage with rigorous grade-level mathematics through a variety of formats and tasks in the summative End-of-Unit Assessment. A combination of auto-scored (when completed digitally) and rubric-scored items provides deep insights into student thinking. All Amplify Desmos Math California End-of-Unit Assessments include two forms.
- Sub-Unit Quizzes: Sub-Unit Quizzes are formative assessments embedded regularly in Grades Kindergarten through Algebra 1. In these checks, students are assessed on a subset of conceptual understandings from the unit, with rubrics that help illuminate students’ current understanding and provide guidance for responding to student thinking.
- Sub-Unit Checklists: These checklists enable teachers to observe key skills and concepts that cannot be assessed on a pencil-and-paper assessment in Kindergarten–Grade 1. The checklists outline the supports students need to achieve mathematical growth and success.
- Performance Tasks: At the end of each unit in grades 3–8, there is a summative assessment performance task provided to evaluate students’ proficiency with the concepts and skills addressed in the unit.
Lesson-Level Assessments
Amplify Desmos Math California lessons include daily moments of assessment to provide valuable evidence of learning for both the teacher and student. Beyond formative, summative, and benchmark assessments, students also have opportunities for self-reflection with Watch Your Knowledge Grow. Students take ownership of their learning by reflecting and tracking their progress before and after each unit.
- Show What You Know: Each lesson has a daily formative assessment focused on one of the key concepts in the lesson. Show What You Know moments are carefully designed to minimize completion time for students while maximizing daily teacher insights to attend to student needs during the following class.
- Responsive Feedback™: Teachers have the ability to see and provide in-the-moment feedback as students progress through a digital lesson. Responsive Feedback motivates students and engages them in the learning process.
Diagnostic Assessment
Every grade level features an asset-based diagnostic assessment designed to be administered at the beginning of the year. Delivered digitally and to the whole class, our diagnostic assessment is uniquely designed to reveal underlying math thinking and identify what students know about grade-level math. With data beyond just right and wrong, teachers have the type of deeper level of insights need to take the right next step.
CAASPP-Aligned Assessment Preparation
Amplify Desmos Math is designed to support students’ mathematical development through problem-based learning, differentiation, and embedded assessments. The program’s emphasis on conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application aligns with the mathematical practices and content standards assessed by the CAASPP.
Amplify Desmos Math California includes a CAASPP-aligned Item Bank. This standards-aligned bank of questions allows teachers to filter and search by grade and standard to find items. Once assigned on the digital platform, students will experience CAASPP-like practice with the online digital tools.
Data and Reporting
Amplify Desmos Math California provides teachers and administrators with unified reporting and insights so that educators have visibility into what students know about grade-level math—and can plan instruction accordingly for the whole class, small groups, and individual students. Reporting functionality integrates unit assessments, lesson assessments, diagnostic data, and progress monitoring for a comprehensive look at student learning. Program reports show proficiency and growth by domain, cluster, standard, and priority concept using performance data from unit assessments, then highlight areas of potential student need to allow teachers to modify their instruction and target differentiated support.
Administrator reporting provides a complete picture of student, class, and district performance, allowing administrators to implement instructional and intervention plans.
Category 4: Access and Equity
The Amplify Desmos Math California curriculum provides teachers with lessons, strategies, and resources to eliminate barriers and increase access to grade-level content without reducing the mathematical demand of tasks. Our lessons are developed using the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to proactively ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.
Every activity has multiple entry points to ensure that all students are supported and challenged. Intervention and personalized learning activities are directly connected to the day’s content and offer students the individualized supports they need to be successful.
Each lesson and unit contains guidance for teachers on how to identify students who may need support, students who need to keep strengthening their understanding, and students who may be ready to stretch their learning. In addition, teachers are provided with recommendations for resources to use with each group of students.
Universal Design for Learning
Each lesson in the program incorporates opportunities for engagement, representation, action, and expression based on the guidelines of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
- Multiple Means of Engagement: Students engage in both print and digital learning, and are regularly participating in discussions and hands-on activities. Students are invited to build their own challenge for other students to solve, which provides opportunities for choice and
autonomy, as well as joy and play. - Multiple Means of Representation: Students are encouraged to demonstrate their learning using mathematical representations, both print and digital, and regularly engage with their peers in analyzing multiple possible solutions. Classes engage in open-ended discussions about what individual students notice and wonder about mathematical concepts.
- Multiple Means of Action and Expression: Learners differ in how they navigate learning environments and express what they know. Students can communicate their ideas in multiple ways, including in print, sketching, uploading photos, or recording an audio response.
Accessibility
Lesson facilitation supports
Every lesson includes at least one specific suggestion the teacher can use to increase access to the lesson without reducing the mathematical demand of the tasks. These suggestions address the following areas:
- Visual-spatial processing
- Conceptual processing
- Executive functioning
- Memory and attention
- Fine motor skills
Accessibility tools
Students have the ability to control accessibility tools so that each learning experience is customized to their individual needs. In many instances, these tools can be turned on or off at any point of instruction.
- Text to speech: Reads text instructions to students in multiple languages
- Enlarged font: Increases the size of all text on screen
- Braille mode: Includes narration of digital interactions
- Language selection: Toggles between languages
Differentiation: In-Lesson Teacher Moves
Within every lesson activity, teachers can use the suggestions in the Differentiation Teacher Moves table to provide in-the-moment instructional support while students are engaged in the work of the lesson. This table can help teachers anticipate the ways students may approach the activity, and provides prompts that they can use during the lesson to Support, Strengthen, and Stretch individual students in their thinking. Teachers are provided with clear student actions and understanding to look for, each matched with immediately usable suggestions for how to respond to the student thinking illustrated in each row of the table. In addition to using these suggestions in the moment as teachers monitor student work, teachers can review the Differentiation table in advance to help them anticipate how students are likely to approach the activity.

Differentiation: Beyond the Lesson
Teachers are provided with recommendations for resources to use with each group of students needing support, strengthening, and stretching after each lesson. Support, Strengthen, and Stretch resources include:
- Mini-Lessons: 15-minute, small-group direct instruction lessons targeted to a specific concept or skill
- Item Banks: Space for teachers to create practice and assessments by using filters and searching for standards, summative-style items, and more
- Fluency Practice: Adaptive, personalized practice built out for basic operations and more
- Centers (K–5): Lesson-embedded routines and practice for students that are vertically aligned across grade levels
- Extensions: Lesson-embedded Teacher Moves including possible stretch questions and activities for students
- Lesson Practice: Additional practice problems support every lesson
- Math Adventures: Strategy-based math games where students engage with math concepts and practice skills in a fun digital environment
- Lesson Summary Support: Support for students and caregivers that provides efficient explanation of the learning goal with clear examples
Math Identity and Community
The Math Identity and Community feature supports teachers in helping students build confidence in their own mathematical thinking, develop skills to work with and learn from others when doing math, and learn how math is an interwoven part of their broader community. The embedded prompts throughout the lessons are designed to highlight what it means to be good at math, the value of sharing ideas, and the power of flexible and creating thinking. Here are some examples of the Math Identity and Community supports embedded in each lesson:
- I can be all of me in math class. You will work with partners every day in math class. What do you want your partners to know about you?
- We are a math community. What does good listening look like and sound like in a math community?
- I am a doer of math. What math strengths did you use today?
Unit Stories
Every unit in grades K–5 contains a Unit Story. These Unit Stories are brief fiction stories read aloud by the teacher at the beginning of each unit that connect to the math of the unit and introduce characters that students will get to know as they engage in the unit. Teachers read the story aloud from their Teacher Edition while projecting illustrations for students from the story, found in the Teacher Presentation Screens for the story. Across the unit, the Unit Story context and characters are used at appropriate points to inspire and engage students in the math as well as in reflections about their math identity and community.
Math Language Development
Every lesson in Amplify Desmos Math California includes opportunities for all students to develop mathematical language as they experience the content. Amplify Desmos Math California purposefully progresses language development from lesson to lesson and across units by supporting students in making their arguments and explanations stronger, clearer, and more precise. This systematic approach to the development of math language can be broken down into the following four categories of support:
- Vocabulary: Units and lessons start by surfacing students’ language for new concepts, then building connections between their language and the new vocabulary for that unit. This honors the language assets that students bring into their learning.
- Language goals: Language goals attend to the mathematics students are learning, and are written through the lens of one or more of four language modalities: reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
- Math Language Routines: Math Language Routines are used within lessons to highlight student-developed language and ideas, cultivate conversation, support mathematical sense-making, and promote meta-cognition.
- Multilingual/English learner supports: Supports for multilingual/English learners (ML/ELs) are called out at intentional points within each lesson. These specific, targeted suggestions support ML/ELs with modifications that increase access to a task, or through development of contextual or mathematical language (both of which can be supportive of all learners).
Multilingual and English Learner Supports
Partnership with English Learner Success Forum
Amplify partnered with the English Learner Success Forum (ELSF), a national nonprofit organization that advocates for high-quality instructional materials that are inclusive of multilingual learners. ELSF reviewed Amplify Desmos Math California, and provided directional guidance and feedback to ensure that the program reflects their research-based instructional strategies for multilingual/English learners.
Math Language Development Resources
Our Math Language Development Resources book contains lesson-specific strategies and activities for all levels of English Learners (i.e., Emerging, Expanding, Bridging). With support for every lesson, teachers are empowered to help all students, regardless of their language skills, to participate fully, grasp the material, and excel in their mathematical journey.
Multilingual Glossary
Amplify Desmos Math California includes a digital glossary for languages other than Spanish. Translations will be provided for up to nine languages.
Spanish Version
Amplify Desmos Math California will include Spanish student-facing materials beginning in the 2026–27 school year.
Category 5: Instructional Planning and Support
Amplify Desmos Math California includes a variety of embedded instructional supports to empower teachers to lead effectively and gain actionable insights into student growth and progress. Teachers are equipped with a comprehensive set of resources designed to fulfill the requirements of Category 5.
Grade-level concepts
Within the Teacher Edition front matter:
- Scope and sequence
- Big Ideas, Drivers of Investigation, and Content Connections
- Grade level standards
- Standards for Mathematical Practice
- English Language Development Standards
- Environmental Principals and Concepts
Within each Unit and Sub-Unit Overview:
- Big Ideas, Drivers of Investigation, and Content Connections
- Math that Matters Most
- Grade level standards
- Standards for Mathematical Practice
- English Language Development Standards
- Environmental Principals and Concepts
Within each Lesson:
- Big Ideas, Drivers of Investigation, and Content Connections
- Grade level standards
- Standards for Mathematical Practice
- English Language Development Standards
- Environmental Principals and Concepts
How to implement the program
At the course level (within the Teacher Edition front matter):
- Navigating the Program (both print and digital)
- Facilitating Lesson Activities with Launch, Monitor and Connect
- Overview of the Digital Facilitation Tools
At the lesson level:
- Suggestions for timing
- What materials to prep
- How to organize and group students
- Key lesson takeaways with the Synthesis
- Recommendations for Differentiation
- Strategies for intervention and extensions (in the Intervention, Extensions, and Investigation Resources book)
At the activity level:
- Differentiation recommendations
- Accessibility tips
- ML / EL tips
- Teacher look-fors
- Recommended Teacher Moves
- Prompts for guiding student thinking
- Sample student responses
Development of Math Language
A variety of language development supports are provided within the Student and Teacher Editions and Math Language Development Resources book.
At the lesson level:
- Diagrams and visuals
- Sentence frames and word banks
- Graphic organizers, including Frayer models
- Vocabulary routines
- Embedded language supports aligned to the CA ELDs
- Lesson-specific strategies for Emerging, Expanding, and Bridging
At the unit level:
- Words With Multiple Meanings
- Contextual vocabulary
At the course level:
- English/Spanish cognates
- Multilingual Glossary
Other Curriculum Guidance
- Additional Practice Resources book
- Assessment Resources book
- Assess and Respond guidance paired with each assessment opportunity
- Show-What-You-Know activities
- Answer keys and rubrics
- Performance tasks
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Integration partners
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Teachers, students, and administrators can enjoy a more seamless experience through single sign-on, by accessing Amplify products directly through Schoology, and by syncing grades from applicable Amplify products to Schoology.
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What’s new
The Tech User Manual has been updated for EOY.
About mCLASS in Louisiana
The Louisiana Department of Education is committed to providing literacy instruction for all by:
- Aligning core curriculum, instruction, and assessments with the Science of Reading.
- Providing appropriate literacy interventions to address difficulty with reading development.
- Implementing practices based on the Science of Reading in every classroom, every day.
- Offering aligned resources to parents, guardians, and family members.
Built on decades of research at the Center on Teaching and Learning at the University of Oregon (a national center for early childhood assessment and instruction), the mCLASS suite meets Louisiana’s early literacy goals for its students with a robust core curriculum and a suite of reporting, grouping, lesson, and caregiver support features.
| DIBELS measures at each grade level | ||||
| Measure | Grade K | Grade 1 | Grade 2 | Grade 3 |
| Letter naming fluency | ||||
| Phonemic segmentation fluency | ||||
| Nonsense word fluency | ||||
| Word reading fluency | ||||
| Oral reading fluency | ||||
| Maze (basic comprehension) | ||||
Enrollment resources
EOY enrollment timeline:
- 3/3- 3/17: Admin Portal closed
- Students and staff are still able to log into mCLASS
- Students are still able to assess Progress Monitoring
- No EOY assessments taking place at this time
- Data Reporting (classroom and aggregate reports) is still available
- 3/18: Admin Portal reopens
- 4/1: EOY begins
Student Transfers:
For instructions on transferring students into a district from a different district within the state, see the Transferring Students section of the Test Coordinator Manual: K–3 EOY.
To add students to your district who are transferring to your school from outside of LDOE, please follow the process in the Enrolling Students section of this article.
End of Year and G3 Summer window resources
- Test Coordinator Manual (District and School Test Coordinators only): This manual provides instructions for administrative tasks for DTCs and STCs.
- Test Administrator Manual for the Secure K–2 End of Year Literacy Assessment: This manual for Test Administrators provides instructions for administering the secure EOY assessment.
- Test Administration Manual: Grade 3 End of Year Literacy Assessment: This manual for Test Administrators provides instructions for administering EOY assessment to Grade 3 students.
- Grade 3 Additional Attempts support video
- Tech User Guide: This manual for District and School Technology Coordinators provides instructions for installing the safe browser (Windows/Mac) or kiosk mode applications (Chromebook) needed for secure EOY assessment.
- Accessibility and Accommodations Manual: This manual includes information about the accessibility features offered for secure EOY assessment, as well as the standard DIBELS 8th Edition Accommodations.
- For information about student demographics in the Admin Portal, see LDOE Admin Portal: Demographics.
- New Troubleshooting for ChromeOS Kiosk Mode guide is available for Technology Coordinators supporting Test Administrators who encounter an error message when launching the Chrome kiosk mode applications.
How to: Install the Safe Exam Browser
This section provides instructions for installing the Safe Exam Browser (SEB), which is needed to assess K-2 students during EOY in Louisiana. Depending on your device type, download the SEB app from the Apple App Store or this site.
If you are using a Chromebook, you will use kiosk mode instead of the SEB. The Tech User Guide includes instructions for installing the applications needed to use kiosk mode, as well as instructions for installing the SEB and additional information to set up devices for secure End of Year (EOY) assessment.
Windows
Browser: Chrome (latest 2 versions)
- Download the desired installer file type:
- A download page opens in a new tab, displaying the download progress. When the download is complete, close the tab.
- For instructions on installing the SEB, see the Tech User Manual.
iPad
- Navigate to Safe Exam Browser in the App Store on your iPad.
- Tap the Safe Exam Browser app icon to open the app page.
- Tap Get to download and install the app.
- For instructions on installing the SEB, see the Tech User Manual.
macOS
- Download the DMG file.
- Depending on your browser, a download page may open in a new tab, displaying the download progress. When the download is complete, close the tab.
- For instructions on installing the SEB, see the Tech User Manual.
Progress Monitoring
This guide provides instructions for administering progress monitoring (PM) assessments in Louisiana schools.
Please note that the steps for accessing and administering PM assessments are different for schools with an mCLASS Intervention license than for schools that do not have an mCLASS Intervention license.
Amplify Tutoring: HDT driven by mCLASS data

Grounded in evidence-based practices and taught by caring, consistent tutors, our high-impact tutoring programs use high-quality instructional materials and data-driven mCLASS® products to empower students.
- Data-driven, personalized instruction
- Research-backed solutions tailored to support your MTSS framework
- Customizable–before, during or after school year-long, semester-long and summer programming
- Comprehensive program management and staffing support
Professional development
Amplify professional development (PD) provides learning experiences that intentionally develop the knowledge and skills you need for effective and self-sustaining implementation.
Go to the PD Library to access self-paced online courses, webinar recordings, videos, and more to help you learn how to administer and score the assessment and develop a deeper understanding of reporting and instruction.
If you are interested in purchasing additional PD for your school or district, please reach out to your account executive.
Additional mCLASS information
mCLASS gives you instant results and clear next steps for each student. Quick and actionable reports provide detailed insight into students’ reading development across foundational literacy skills for teachers, specialists, administrators, and caregivers.
View the EOY mCLASS Reporting Guide to learn more.
View the BOY/MOY mCLASS Reporting Guide to learn more.
Additional resources around mCLASS reporting can be found by navigating to the Programs & Apps section and then selecting PD Library.

To continue your own professional learning around the Science of Reading, join your colleagues who’ve subscribed to our podcasts and communities!
Science of Reading: The Podcast delivers the latest insights from researchers and practitioners in early reading. Further your professional development with each episode by subscribing and downloading now.
Science of Reading: The Community is built for those committed to fostering conversation around the Science of Reading and implementing best practices in the classroom (including the virtual classroom).
What does classroom instruction look like when it is based on Science of Reading practices? We’ve outlined a Science of Reading action plan to guide your evaluation in our new FREE ebook, Science of Reading: Making the shift.

The mCLASS Home Connect website houses literacy resources for parents and caregivers, including at-home lessons organized by skill to help students at home during remote learning. Our mCLASS parent/caregiver letters in English and Spanish ensure that families know how to best support their students.

mCLASS support
Our chat agents are standing by to assist you!
Simply log in at my.amplify.com/login/louisiana and select the orange button in the lower right corner to chat live with our support team.
Important note:
Our support hours are Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. CT.
Check out the DIBELS 8 LDOE Help Center for more help at any point during implementation.

Additional Amplify products
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Eureka Math-NEW
Eureka Math® crosswalk to Amplify Desmos Math free lessons
Grade 6
Module 1: Ratios and Unit Rates
| Eureka Math | Amplify Classroom |
| Topic A Representing and Reasoning About Ratios | |
| Lesson 3: Equivalent Ratios Lesson 4: Equivalent Ratios | Unit 2 Lesson 4: Fruit Lab |
| Topic C Unit Rates | |
| Lesson 16: From Ratio to Rates | Unit 3 Lesson 6: Soft Serve |
| Lesson 18: Finding a Rate by Dividing Two Quantities | Unit 3 Lesson 6: Soft Serve |
| Lesson 24: Percent and Rates per 100 | Unit 3 Lesson 9: Lucky Duckies |
Module 2: Arithmetic Operations Including Division of Fractions
| Topic A Dividing Fractions by Fractions | |
| Lesson 2: Interpreting Division of a Whole Number by a Fraction —Visual Models. | Unit 4 Lesson 3: Flour Planner |
| Lesson 3: Interpreting and Computing Division of a Fraction by a Fraction—More Models Lesson 4: Interpreting and Computing Division of a Fraction by a Fraction—More Models | Unit 4 Lesson 6: Fill the Gap |
| Lesson 8: Dividing Fractions and Mixed Numbers | Unit 4 Lesson 6: Fill the Gap |
| Topic B Multi-Digit Decimal Operations—Adding, Subtracting, and Multiplying | |
| Lesson 9: Sums and Differences of Decimals | Unit 5 Lesson 2: Decimal Diagrams and Algorithms |
Module 3: Rational Numbers
| Topic B Order and Absolute Value | |
| Lesson 7: Ordering Integers and Other Rational Numbers Lesson 8: Ordering Integers and Other Rational Numbers Lesson 9: Comparing Integers and Other Rational Numbers | Unit 7Lesson 4: Order in the Class |
Module 4: Expressions and Equations
| Topic D Expanding, Factoring, and Distributing Expressions | |
| Lesson 9: The Relationship of Addition and Subtraction | Unit 6 Lesson 8: Products and Sums Take Away (coming soon!) |
| Lesson 10: Writing and Expanding Multiplication Expressions Lesson 11: Factoring Expressions Lesson 12: Distributing Expressions | Unit 6 Lesson 8: Products and Sums Take Away (coming soon!) |
| Topic F Writing and Evaluating Expressions and Formulas | |
| Lesson 18: Writing and Evaluating Expressions—Addition and Subtraction Lesson 19: Substituting to Evaluate Addition and Subtraction Expressions Lesson 20: Writing and Evaluating Expressions—Multiplication and Division Lesson 21: Writing and Evaluating Expressions—Multiplication and Addition | Unit 6 Lesson 8: Products and Sums Take Away (coming soon!) |
| Topic G Solving Equations | |
| Lesson 23: True and False Number Sentences Lesson 24: True and False Number Sentences | Unit 6 Lesson 1: Weight for It |
| Lesson 25: Finding Solutions to Make Equations True | Unit 6 Lesson 1: Weight for It |
| Lesson 26: One-Step Equations—Addition and Subtraction | Unit 6 Lesson 1: Weight for It |
| Topic H Applications of Equations | |
| Lesson 33: From Equations to Inequalities Lesson 34: Writing and Graphing Inequalities in Real-World Problems | Unit 7 Lesson 7: Tunnel Travels |
Module 5: Area, Surface Area, and Volume Problems
| Topic A: Area of Triangles, Quadrilaterals, and Polygons | |
| Lesson 1: The Area of Parallelograms Through Rectangle Facts | Unit 1 Lesson 3: Exploring Parallelograms Exploring Parallelograms, Part 2 |
| Topic D Nets and Surface Area | |
| Lesson 18: Determining Surface Area of Three-Dimensional Figures | Unit 1 Lesson 10: Renata’s Stickers |
Module 6: Statistics
| Topic A Understanding Distributions | |
| Lesson 2: Displaying a Data Distribution Lesson 3: Creating a Dot Plot | Unit 8 Lesson 3: Minimum Wage |
| Lesson 4: Creating a Histogram Lesson 5: Describing a Distribution Displayed in a Histogram | Unit 8 Lesson 5: The Plot Thickens |
| Topic C Summarizing a Distribution That Is Skewed Using the Median and the Interquartile Range | |
| Lesson 12: Describing the Center of a Distribution Using the Median | Unit 8 Lesson 11: Toy Cars |
| Topic D Summarizing and Describing Distributions | |
| Lesson 18: Connecting Graphical Representations and Numerical Summaries | Unit 8 Lesson 5: The Plot Thickens |
| Lesson 3: Creating a Dot Plot | Unit 8 Lesson 3: Minimum Wage |
Grade 7
Module 1: Ratios and Proportional Relationships
| Eureka Math | Amplify Classroom |
| Topic A Proportional Relationships | |
| Lesson 1: An Experience in Relationships as Measuring Rate | Unit 2 Lesson 1: Paint Unit 4 Lesson 1: Mosaics |
| Lesson 5: Identifying Proportional and Non-Proportional Relationships in Graphs Lesson 6: Identifying Proportional and Non-Proportional Relationships in Graphs | Unit 2 Lesson 8: Dino Pops |
| Topic B Unit Rate and the Constant of Proportionality | |
| Lesson 8: Representing Proportional Relationships with Equations Lesson 9: Representing Proportional Relationships with Equations | Unit 2 Lesson 6: Two and Two |
| Lesson 10: Interpreting Graphs of Proportional Relationships | Unit 2 Lesson 8: Dino Pops |
| Topic C Ratios and Rates Involving Fractions | |
| Lesson 11: Ratios of Fractions and Their Unit Rates Lesson 12: Ratios of Fractions and Their Unit Rates | Unit 2 Lesson 6: Two and Two |
| Lesson 15: Equations of Graphs of Proportional Relationships Involving Fractions | Unit 2 Lesson 8: Dino Pops |
| Topic D Ratios of Scale Drawings | |
| Lesson 16: Relating Scale Drawings to Ratios and Rates | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Scaling Machines |
| Lesson 18: Computing Actual Lengths from a Scale Drawing | Unit 1 Lesson 7: Will It Fit? |
| Lesson 19: Computing Actual Areas from a Scale Drawing | Unit 1 Lesson 7: Will It Fit? |
Module 2: Rational Numbers
| Topic A Addition and Subtraction of Integers and Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 1: Opposite Quantities Combine to Make Zero | Unit 5 Lesson 1: Floats and Anchors |
| Lesson 2: Using the Number Line to Model the Addition of Integers Lesson 3: Understanding Addition of Integers Lesson 4: Efficiently Adding Integers and Other Rational Numbers Lesson 5: Understanding Subtraction of Integers and Other Rational Numbers | Unit 5 Lesson 4: Draw Your Own Lesson 10: Integer Puzzles |
| Lesson 7: Addition and Subtraction of Rational Numbers | Unit 5 Lesson 4: Draw Your Own Lesson 10; Integer Puzzles |
| Topic B Multiplication and Division of Integers and Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 10: Understanding Multiplication of Integers Lesson 11: Develop Rules for Multiplying Signed Numbers | Unit 5 Lesson 10: Integer Puzzles |
| Lesson 15: Multiplication and Division of Rational Numbers | Unit 5 Lesson 10: Integer Puzzles |
Module 3: Expressions and Equations
| Topic A Use Properties of Operations to Generate Equivalent Expressions | |
| Lesson 3: Writing Products as Sums and Sums as Products Lesson 4: Writing Products as Sums and Sums as Products | Unit 6 Lesson 10: Collect the Squares |
| Topic B Solve Problems Using Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities | |
| Lesson 8: Using If-Then Moves in Solving Equations Lesson 9: Using If-Then Moves in Solving Equations | Unit 6Lesson 10: Collect the Squares |
| Lesson 10: Angle Problems and Solving Equations | Unit 7 Lesson 2: Friendly Angles Lesson 4: Missing Measures |
| Lesson 12: Properties of Inequalities Lesson 13: Inequalities Lesson 14: Solving Inequalities | Unit 6 Lesson 16: Shira the Sheep |
| Topic C Use Equations and Inequalities to Solve Geometry Problems | |
| Lesson 16: The Most Famous Ratio of All | Unit 3 Lesson 3: Measuring Around |
| Lesson 17: The Area of a Circle | Unit 3 Lesson 9: Area Challenges |
| Lesson 18: More Problems on Area and Circumference | Unit 3 Lesson 9: Area Challenges |
Module 4: Percent and Proportional Relationships
| Topic A Finding the Whole | |
| Lesson 1: Percent | Unit 4 Lesson 1: Mosaics |
| Lesson 2: Part of a Whole as a Percent | Unit 4 Lesson 1: Mosaics |
| Lesson 3: Comparing Quantities with Percent | Unit 4 Lesson 1: Mosaics |
| Lesson 4: Percent Increase and Decrease | Unit 4 Lesson 5: Percent MachinesLesson 12: Posing Percent Problems(coming soon!) |
| Lesson 5: Finding One Hundred Percent Given Another Percent | |
| Lesson 6: Fluency with Percents | Unit 4 Lesson 5: Percent MachinesLesson 12: Posing Percent Problems(coming soon!) |
| Topic B Percent Problems Including More Than One Whole | |
| Lesson 7: Markup and Markdown Problems | Unit 4 Lesson 5: Percent MachinesLesson 12: Posing Percent Problems(coming soon!) |
| Lesson 8: Percent Error Problems Lesson 9: Problem Solving When the Percent Changes | Unit 4 Lesson 5: Percent MachinesLesson 12: Posing Percent Problems(coming soon!) |
| Lesson 10: Simple Interest | |
| Lesson 11: Tax, Commissions, Fees, and Other Real-World Percent Applications | Unit 4 Lesson 12: Posing Percent Problems (coming soon!) |
| Topic C Scale Drawings | |
| Lesson 13: Changing Scales | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Scaling Machines Lesson 7: Will It Fit? |
| Lesson 14: Computing Actual Lengths from a Scale Drawing | Unit 1 Lesson 7: Will It Fit? |
| Topic D Population, Mixture, and Counting Problems Involving Percents | |
| Lesson 16: Population Problems | Unit 8 Lesson 10: Crab Island |
Module 5: Statistics and Probability
| Topic A Calculating and Interpreting Probabilities | |
| Lesson 1: Chance Experiments | Unit 8 Lesson 1: How Likely? Lesson 2: Prob-bear-bilities |
| Topic C Random Sampling and Estimating Population Characteristics | |
| Lesson 13: Populations, Samples, and Generalizing from a Sample to a Population | Unit 8 Lesson 10: Crab Island |
| Lesson 14: Selecting a Sample Lesson 15: Random Sampling Lesson 16: Methods for Selecting a Random Sample | Unit 8 Lesson 10: Crab Island |
| Topic D Comparing Populations | |
| Lesson 22: Using Sample Data to Compare the Means of Two or More Populations Lesson 23: Using Sample Data to Compare the Means of Two or More Populations | Unit 8 Lesson 10: Crab Island |
Module 6: Geometry
| Topic A Unknown Angles | |
| Lesson 1: Complementary and Supplementary Angles | Unit 7 Lesson 2: Friendly Angles |
| Lesson 2: Solving for Unknown Angles Using Equations Lesson 3: Solving for Unknown Angles Using Equations Lesson 4: Solving for Unknown Angles Using Equations | Unit 7 Lesson 4: Missing Measures |
| Topic B Constructing Triangles | |
| Lesson 8: Drawing Triangles | Unit 7 Lesson 5: Can You Build It? |
| Lesson 11: Conditions on Measurements That Determine a Triangle | Unit 7 Lesson 5: Can You Build It? |
| Topic D Problems Involving Area and Surface Area | |
| Lesson 22: Area Problems with Circular Regions | Unit 3 Lesson 9: Area Challenges |
Grade 8
Module 1: Integer Exponents and Scientific Notation
| Eureka Math | Amplify Classroom |
| Topic A Exponential Notation and Properties of Integer Exponents | |
| Lesson 1: Exponential Notation | Unit 7 Lesson 1: Circles |
| Lesson 2: Multiplication of Numbers in Exponential Form Lesson 3: Numbers in Exponential Form Raised to a Power | Unit 7 Lesson 3: Power Pairs |
| Topic B Magnitude and Scientific Notation | |
| Lesson 9: Scientific Notation Lesson 10: Operations with Numbers in Scientific Notation | Unit 7 Lesson 9: Specific and Scientific Lesson 11: Balance the Scale |
Module 2: The Concept of Congruence
| Topic A Definitions and Properties of the Basic Rigid Motions | |
| Lesson 1: Why Move Things Around? Lesson 2: Definition of Translation and Three Basic Properties | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Transformers Lesson 2: Spinning, Flipping, Sliding |
| Lesson 3: Translating Lines | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Transformers Lesson 2: Spinning, Flipping, Sliding |
| Lesson 4: Definition of Reflection and Basic Properties Lesson 5: Definition of Rotation and Basic Properties Lesson 6: Rotations of 180 Degrees | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Transformers Lesson 2: Spinning, Flipping, Sliding Lesson 4: Moving Day |
| Topic B Sequencing the Basic Rigid Motions | |
| Lesson 9: Sequencing Rotations Lesson 10: Sequences of Rigid Motions | Unit 1 Lesson 13: Tessellate |
| Lesson 14: More on the Angles of a Triangle | Unit 1 Lesson 12: Puzzling It Out |
Module 3: Similarity
| Topic A Dilation | |
| Lesson 1: What Lies Behind “Same Shape”? | Unit 2 Lesson 1: Sketchy Dilations Lesson 2: Dilation Mini Golf |
| Lesson 2: Properties of Dilations Lesson 3: Examples of Dilations | Unit 2 Lesson 1: Sketchy Dilations Lesson 2: Dilation Mini Golf |
| Lesson 4: Fundamental Theorem of Similarity Lesson 5: First Consequences of FTS | Unit 2 Lesson 6: Social Scavenger Hunt |
| Topic B Similar Figures | |
| Lesson 8: Similarity Lesson 9: Basic Properties of Similarity | Unit 2 Lesson 6: Social Scavenger Hunt |
| Topic C The Pythagorean Theorem | |
| Lesson 13: Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem | Unit 8 Lesson 8: Triangle-Tracing Turtle |
Module 4: Linear Equations
| Topic A Writing and Solving Linear Equations | |
| Lesson 4: Solving a Linear Equation | Unit 4 Lesson 5: Equation Roundtable |
| Lesson 5: Writing and Solving Linear Equations | Unit 4 Lesson 5: Equation Roundtable |
| Lesson 6: Solutions of a Linear Equation | Unit 4 Lesson 5: Equation Roundtable |
| Topic B Linear Equations in Two Variables and Their Graphs | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Flags |
| Lesson 10: A Critical Look at Proportional Relationships | Unit 3 Lesson 1: Turtle Time TrialsLesson 4: Flags |
| Lesson 11: Constant Rate | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Flags |
| Lesson 13: The Graph of a Linear Equation in Two Variables | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Flags |
| Topic C Slope and Equations of Lines | |
| Lesson 15: The Slope of a Non-Vertical Line | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Flags |
| Lesson 18: There Is Only One Line Passing Through a Given Point with a Given Slope | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Flags |
| Lesson 19: The Graph of a Linear Equation in Two Variables Is a Line | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Flags |
| Lesson 20: Every Line Is a Graph of a Linear Equation | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Flags |
| Lesson 22: Constant Rates Revisited | Unit 3 Lesson 1: Turtle Time Trials |
| Topic D Systems of Linear Equations and Their Solutions | |
| Lesson 25: Geometric Interpretation of the Solutions of a Linear System | Unit 4 Lesson 11: Make Them Balance Lesson 12: Line Zapper |
Module 5: Examples of Functions from Geometry
| Topic A Functions | |
| Lesson 1: The Concept of a Function | Unit 5 Lesson 1: Turtle Crossing Lesson 2: Guess My Rule |
| Lesson 2: Formal Definition of a Function | Unit 5 Lesson 1: Turtle Crossing Lesson 2: Guess My Rule |
| Lesson 3: Linear Functions and Proportionality | Unit 3 Lesson 1: Turtle Time Trials |
| Lesson 5: Graphs of Functions and Equations | Unit 5 Lesson 5: The Tortoise and the Hare |
| Lesson 6: Graphs of Linear Functions and Rate of Change | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Flags |
| Lesson 7: Comparing Linear Functions and Graphs | Unit 5 Lesson 5: The Tortoise and the Hare |
| Topic B Volume | |
| Lesson 10: Volumes of Familiar Solids—Cones and Cylinders | Unit 5 Lesson 11: Cylinders |
Module 6: Linear Functions
| Topic A Linear Functions | |
| Lesson 2: Interpreting Rate of Change and Initial Value | Unit 3 Lesson 1: Turtle Time Trials |
| Lesson 4: Increasing and Decreasing Functions Lesson 5: Increasing and Decreasing Functions | Unit 5 Lesson 1: Turtle CrossingLesson 5: The Tortoise and the Hare |
| Topic B Bivariate Numerical Data | |
| Lesson 6: Scatter Plots Lesson 7: Patterns in Scatter Plots | Unit 6 Lesson 3: Robots |
| Lesson 8: Informally Fitting a Line | Unit 6 Lesson 4: Dapper Cats Lesson 6: Find the Fit |
| Lesson 10: Linear Models Lesson 11: Using Linear Models in a Data Context | Unit 5 Lesson 5: The Tortoise and the Hare |
| Topic D Bivariate Categorical Data | |
| Lesson 14: Association Between Categorical Variables | Unit 6 Lesson 11: Finding Associations |
Module 7: Introduction to Irrational Numbers Using Geometry
| Topic A Square and Cube Roots | |
| Lesson 2: Square Roots | Unit 8 Lesson 4: Root Down |
| Lesson 4: Simplifying Square Roots | Unit 8 Lesson 4: Root Down |
| Topic C The Pythagorean Theorem | |
| Lesson 18: Applications of the Pythagorean Theorem | Unit 8 Lesson 10: Taco Truck |
Algebra 1
Module 1: Relationships Between Quantities and Reasoning with Equations and Their Graphs
Topic A: Introduction to Functions Studied this Year—Graphing Stories
| Lesson 1: Graphs of Piecewise Functions | Pumpkin Prices |
| Lesson 2: Graphs of Quadratic Functions | Revisiting Visual Patterns, Part 1 Quadratic Visual Patterns |
Topic C: Solving Equations and Inequalities
| Lesson 10: True and False Equations | Same Position |
| Lesson 11: Solution Sets for Equations and Inequalities | Working Backwards Solving Strategies Shelley the Snail |
| Lesson 19: Rearranging Formulas | Subway Seats Various Variables |
| Lesson 21: Solution Sets to Inequalities with Two Variables | Pizza Delivery |
| Lesson 22 & Lesson 23: Solution Sets to Simultaneous Equations (and Inequalities) | Shape It Up Lizard Lines Quilts Seeking Solutions |
Module 2: Descriptive Statistics
Topic D: Numerical Data on Two Variables
| Lesson 14: Modeling Relationships with a Line | City Slopes Residual Fruit Penguin Populations |
| Lesson 19: Interpreting Correlation | Correlation Coefficient How Hot Is It? Behind the Headlines City Data |
Module 3: Linear and Exponential Functions
Topic A: Linear and Exponential Sequences
| Lesson 3: Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences | Sequence Carnival More Visual Patterns |
| Lesson 5: The Power of Exponential Growth | Carlos’s Fish |
Topic B: Describing Variability and Comparing Distributions
| Lesson 4: Summarizing Deviations from the Mean | Finding Desmo |
| Lesson 13: Interpreting the Graph of a Function | Craft-a-Graph |
| Lesson 14: Linear and Exponential Models – Comparing Growth Rates | Detroit’s Population, Part 1 Detroit’s Population, Part 2 |
Topic D: Using Functions and Graphs to Solve Problems
| Lesson 21: Comparing Linear and Exponential Models Again | Plane, Train, and Automobile |
| Lesson 21: Comparing Linear and Exponential Models Again | Carlos’s Fish |
Module 4: Polynomial and Quadratic Expressions, Equations, and Functions
Topic A: Quadratic Expressions, Equations, Functions, and Their Connection to Rectangles
| Lesson 8: Exploring the Symmetry in Graphs of Quadratic Functions | On the Fence Plenty of Parabolas Robot Launch |
| Lesson 9: Graphing Quadratic Functions from Factored Form, 𝑓(𝑥)=𝑎(𝑥−𝑚)(𝑥−𝑛) | Two for One Parabola Zapper Shooting Stars |
| Lesson 10: Interpreting Quadratic Functions from Graphs and Tables | Stomp Rockets |
Topic B: Using Different Forms for Quadratic Functions
| Lessons 11–12: Completing the Square | Square Tactic |
| Lesson 15: Using the Quadratic Formula | Stomp Rockets in Space |
Topic C: Function Transformations and Modeling
| Lesson 18: Graphing Cubic, Square Root, and Cube Root Functions | Sorting Relationships |
| Lesson 22: Comparing Quadratic, Square Root, and Cube Root Functions Represented in Different Ways | Sorting Relationships |
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Amplify launches custom speech recognition technology using AI to power next-generation voice-enabled learning
Brooklyn, NY – Amplify, a publisher of next-generation curriculum and assessment programs, announced the development of a custom Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system designed to power voice-enabled education products.
The Amplify ASR system converts spoken language into written text, enabling users to interact with educational software using voice command while providing detailed feedback on pronunciation, prosody, and more. The technology supports multiple applications, including reading assessment, conversational tutoring, digital activity input, and classroom monitoring. Amplify’s ASR application will also compare student speech to target texts and identify areas where teachers can provide additional support for reading fluency and comprehension.
“Voice interaction is becoming increasingly important for young students using educational software, and we’re seeing tremendous potential for growth in this area,” said Amplify’s Chief Product Officer, Alexandra Walsh. “By developing our own ASR solution, we can test, refine, and deliver voice-enabled features that directly support student learning outcomes while meeting our high standards for safety, accountability, fairness, and efficacy.”
The Amplify ASR application will support Amplify’s voice-interactive instructional programs for the 2025-2026 school year across four key categories:
1. Reading assessment and practice, focusing on phonics, automaticity, and prosody
2. Conversational tutoring systems
3. Voice input for digital activities and assessments
4. Classroom monitoring tools that provide teacher feedback and student insights
The Amplify ASR application will initially replace Soapbox’s ASR functionality in Amplify’s mCLASS Literacy and Boost Reading programs, with plans for organization-wide expansion.
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
A curiosity-driven K–12 program that builds lifelong math proficiency
Amplify Desmos Math thoughtfully combines conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application. Each math 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.
What is Amplify Desmos Math?
Amplify Desmos Math supports teachers in building students’ lifelong math proficiency. The program:
- Supports social classrooms, invites mathematical creativity, and evokes wonder, creating a welcoming learning space where students are empowered to see themselves and their classmates as having brilliant mathematical ideas.
- Provides teachers with clear, step-by-step moves to build systematically from students’ prior knowledge to grade-level learning.
- Connects students to each other’s thinking and to an understanding that they can use math to make sense of the world.
- Enables access to grade-level understanding for every student, every day.
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.

Experience Amplify Desmos Math
Click the links below to explore our interactive digital lessons, where you’ll also find print Teacher Edition and Student Edition pages for each lesson.
For helpful navigation tips and more program information, download our Grades K–5, Grades 6–Algebra 1, and Grades 9–12 program guides.
You can also watch a product expert walk through a lesson and the available program components with a lesson walkthrough video.
Diagnostic screening and progress monitoring assessments
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.

Personalized learning and support
Amplify Desmos Math includes digital, adaptive practice that provides the personalized support a student needs to access grade-level math every day. Boost Personalized Learning activities target a skill or concept aligned to the day’s core lesson, with each student receiving personalized scaffolds based on what they already know. This technology complements daily learning and provides another layer of support to the in-lesson differentiation and instructional guidance provided to teachers. Click here to try a Boost Personalized Learning activity. More activities coming soon!
The Fluency Practice of Amplify Desmos Math uses an evidence-based approach to memory retention—spaced repetition—for the basic operations. Students around the world have answered more than 120 million multiplication questions within our application. Try it now!
Indiana Amplify Desmos Math resources for your review

Contact us
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Amplify’s Subprocessors
This page provides the current list of third party service providers that Amplify engages to help us provide our services and may have access to Personal Information of our customers (“Subprocessors”) as outlined in Amplify’s Customer Privacy Policy.
How to get notified of changes
Please use the “Subscribe to Updates” functionality at the top of the page to receive emails from Amplify regarding updates to the list of Subprocessors and/or changes to the information provided on this page. Should you choose not to use this functionality to receive email notifications, it is our expectation that you check the link regularly for any updates.
Our commitments regarding Service Providers
All of the Subprocessors listed below have a legitimate need to access Personal Information in order to provide their service to Amplify as a part of Amplify’s provision of the services to our customers. With regard to Subprocessors, Amplify commits to:
- Conduct due diligence on the data privacy and security measures of new Subprocessors before providing access to Personal Information and monitor on an annual basis thereafter. As part of this process, Amplify reviews the Subprocessor’s security documentation, practices, and posture to ensure alignment with Amplify’s information security program and standards;
- Enter into a written agreement which requires at least the same level of protection for Personal Information and individuals as set out in Amplify’s Customer Privacy Policy and our agreements with customers, as applicable, before providing access to Personal Information;
- Restrict the Subprocessor’s access to Personal Information to only what is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations or as otherwise permitted under the agreements with our customers or under applicable data privacy laws; and
- Remain liable for any processing of Personal Information carried out by Subprocessors to the same extent we would be liable if performing the services ourselves.
Subprocessors
Amplify’s Subprocessors of Personal Information are:
| Subprocessor | Purpose | Location | Student Data | Educator Data |
| Amazon Web Services | Cloud hosting services | United States | |
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| Anthology (formerly Blackboard) | Video conferencing and attendee tracking for tutoring services | United States | |
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| Boomi, Inc. | Data integration | United States | ||
| Datadog | Performance and security monitoring | United States | |
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| dbt Labs, Inc. | Run database queries | United States | |
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| Egnyte, Inc. | Secure file exchange | United States | |
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| Fivetran, Inc. | Database loading | United States | |
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| Gainsight, Inc. | Customer support | United States | ||
| Google, LLC | Cloud hosting services | United States | |
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| Google, LLC (Looker) | Data warehouse analytics | United States | |
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| HubSpot | Email delivery | United States | ||
| MongoDB, Inc. | Database hosting | United States | ||
| Salesforce | Customer relationship management | United States | ||
| SchoolDay (formerly GG4L) | Secure rostering | United States | ||
| Snowflake, Inc. | Database hosting | United States | ||
| Talkdesk, Inc. | Customer support | United States | ||
| Twilio, Inc. (Sendgrid) | Email delivery | United States |
Updates
| Date of Change | Change | Notes |
| October 10, 2025 | Changed Blackboard to Anthology and GG4L to SchoolDay. Update MongoDB purpose. Added Datadog to the Students Subprocessor List. Created Educators Subprocessor List. | Anthology and SchoolDay updated their corporate branding. Added list of Educator Data Subprocessors to clarify which partners process educator data. |
| June 14, 2024 |
Removed Desmos Studio, PBC, Qualfon Data Services Group, LLC, and Zendesk, Inc. | These partners and services are no longer used for customer support. |
| July 27, 2023 |
Added Fivetran |
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| September 15, 2022 |
Corrected name of Desmos Studio, PBC. |
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| July 21, 2022 | Added Desmos Collective LLC, Google, MongoDB, Twilio, and Zendesk | These services support Mathigon.org and Desmos Classroom |
| July 20, 2022 | Added Qualfon Data Services Group, LLC | – |
| October 4, 2021 | Added Blackboard, Inc. | – |
| July 26, 2021 | Fishtown Analytics, Inc. renamed to dbt Labs, Inc. | – |
| June 17, 2021 | Updated with data warehousing and roster services providers | – |
| May 28, 2021 | Initial public posting. | – |
Celebrating our 2026 Activity Builder Spotlight Contest winners
Teachers in our community have built over a million activities in Amplify Classroom, and our annual Activity Builder Spotlight Contest helps educators across the globe discover these resources. Each year, teachers submit custom activities in one of two categories: Beginner (for users just starting their activity-building journey) or Pro (for those who’ve mastered Computation Layer or embedded advanced graphs to create student interactions). Our community votes on their favorites, and winners receive a prize plus permanent placement in our Featured Collection.
Meet this year’s winners! Try these incredible teacher-created activities in your classroom, or copy and edit them to fit your grade level(s) or unique classroom needs:
Fractions NF5-13 by Krystal Centinello
Beginner category
Students build conceptual understanding by interpreting a fraction as the division of the numerator by the denominator.
Balance This by Wes Overton
Beginner category
Using an interactive balance scale, students experiment with properties of equality and learn to solve equations with variables on both sides.
Exploring Expressions and Like Terms With Coins! by Michael Felias
Beginner category
By sorting coins and calculating their total value, students discover what expressions are and how to combine like terms.
The Accumulator Function by Pablo Garcia
Beginner category
This activity prepares students for the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and applications of integration by introducing accumulator functions.
Bike Jumps! by Michael Bostick
Beginner category
This modeling activity introduces lines, parabolas, and rates of change through the context of bike jumps.
SWEEP! – Coding Introduction by Nathaniel Heading
Pro submission
This introduction to coding for beginners builds foundational skills in sequential thinking, functions, and loops.
Combining Like Terms (With Algebra Tiles) by Kayla Skidmore
Pro submission
Through visual algebra tiles, students learn to model expressions and practice combining like terms.
Coordinate Plane Darts by Richard Hung
Pro category
Students sharpen their coordinate graphing skills through an engaging game of darts! The teacher dashboard will show a checkmark if students score at least one point in three rounds.
Metroid Trig by Matthew Stack
Pro category
Students apply trigonometric ratios and the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate side lengths of right triangles.
Bath Time! by Bryn Humberstone
Pro category
This activity takes students through real-world application of linear graphs exploring the relationship between bath volume and time.
Thinking about joining other Amplify Classroom users and building your own activity? Our on-demand Lesson Building Toolkit has bite-size tutorials to get you started.
Welcome, Program 3 reviewers!
We’re honored to introduce you to Amplify California Language Arts. We’re confident you’ll find this comprehensive program to be a powerful tool for bringing the vision of the California ELA/ELD Framework to life in classrooms across the state.
Please start with the video on the right to learn how to navigate the program and access key features referenced within our submission. Below you’ll find additional resources to support your review.
Your review samples
We’re excited for you to begin your review of Amplify California Language Arts, a comprehensive biliteracy program for kindergarten through grade 6.
Reviewer Binders (K–6)
Your physical samples should have arrived in grade-specific boxes with three Reviewer Binders.
- The first binder will contain logistical program review information and the printed Evaluation Criteria Map.
- The second binder will contain the printed Standards Maps for grades K–2.
- The third binder will contain the printed Standards Maps for grades 3–6.
Physical samples (trade books)
Your review of the program will be entirely digital with the exception of the trade books that you will be receiving as physical samples. You can expect to receive 13 boxes of physical materials for your review. Twelve boxes of trade books, one for each grade K–5, in English and Spanish, and one box containing your Reviewer Binders.
As you begin the process of organizing your materials, please refer to the inventory checklist found inside each box as well as within your Reviewer Binder.
Digital review materials
In order to access your digital review materials, you’ll need to log in to our platform using your unique login credentials found on a Digital Review Credential flyer inside of your Reviewer Binder. Once you have located the flyer:
- Click the orange button below to access the platform.
- Click “Log in with Amplify.”
- Enter the username and password provided on your Digital Review Credential flyer.
Navigation tips
Before you get started, please review these important functionality notes:
Criteria Map and Standards Maps must be opened on Microsoft Word on your desktop to function as intended. If you open the documents without Microsoft Word on your desktop, citations will be cut off at the bottom of most tables within the document.
Many of our citations are deep-links to PDFs, meaning they will take you to the right page or the first page in the sequence for the citation in question. To ensure this functionality works, please disable any PDF-viewing extensions or plug-ins such as Adobe Acrobat Pro Browser Extension.
[Reviewer program navigation video] Grades K–5
[Reviewer program navigation video] Grade 6
Click here for additional information on navigating the program for grade 6.
Category 1: English Language Arts (ELA) and English Language Development (ELD) content/alignment to standards
Evaluation Criteria Map
Linked below is the Evaluation Criteria Map. Please note that you will need to be logged into the digital platform to access the links in the Evaluation Criteria Map.
ELA Standards Maps
The links below provide the Standards Maps for Amplify California Language Arts for each grade level.
ELD Standards Maps
Category 2: Program organization
Amplify California Language Arts’ biliteracy program is a comprehensive curriculum provides a full year of evidence-based instruction for each grade level, with both integrated and designated English Language Development instruction designed to give multilingual/English learners the tools to thrive. Amplify’s biliteracy program for grades K–6 includes:
- Core English language arts instruction: Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) California (grades K–5) and Amplify ELA California (grade 6) covering knowledge building and foundational skills.
- Provides upper grade foundational skills instruction for grades 3–6.
- Core Spanish language arts instruction: Amplify Caminos California, a fully parallel SLA program that works in tandem with English core instruction across all grades.
- Provides upper grade foundational skills instruction for grades 3–6.
- Designated English Language Development: Language Studio California is the designated English Language Development companion that directly aligns with and supports core English instruction.
- Newcomer Support: Amplify California Language Arts Newcomer Support to facilitate instruction for students who are new to both English and the United States.
Program structure
Amplify’s California Language Arts programs are built on what the research shows: Strong readers need both word recognition and language comprehension. Our comprehensive curriculum suite follows the Simple View of Reading bringing together foundational skills and knowledge building to deliver instruction grounded in the Science of Reading.
This model is integral to the structure of the Amplify biliteracy program, which directly aligns with the CA CCSS ELA and ELD standards by combining rigorous decoding and skills instruction with research-based knowledge and language development instruction. In its early grades, the Amplify biliteracy program uses a two-strand structure—Skills/Lectoescritura and Knowledge/Conocimiento—to effectively address this learning challenge while meeting standards expectations for both language development and academic content mastery.

[Reviewer highlight video] Program organization for Category 2
[Reviewer highlight video] Program structure for grades K–2
[Reviewer highlight video] Program structure for grades 3–5
[Reviewer highlight video] Program structure for grade 6
Amplify Caminos California lessons are designed to allow all students time to work toward learning objectives, including peer collaboration and discussion. Since each lesson activity is aligned to subsequent activities, students’ understanding and analysis develops progressively throughout the lesson.
Each lesson follows a predictable structure with clearly marked components, beginning with warm-up routines, progressing through explicit instruction with guided practice, and concluding with independent application activities. The program provides detailed teacher language, including question stems and discussion prompts, ensuring clear and consistent delivery of instruction.
Amplify CKLA California and Amplify Caminos California empower teachers to deliver effective instruction and keep students engaged with the following resources:
- Teacher Guides
- Assessment Guides
- Authentic texts and trade books
- Knowledge Image Cards
- Knowledge Flip Books
- Remediation and intervention resources
- Decodable readers
- Student Readers and novels
- Student Activity Books
- Dedicated ELD support with Language Studio California
- Poet’s Journals
- eReaders
- Sound Library featuring articulation videos and songs
- Instructional routine modeling videos
- Assignable Practice Games
- On-demand professional development
Amplify ELA California students stay engaged with the following resources:
- Teacher Guides that include:
- Detailed lesson plans
- Standards alignment and exit tickets
- Real-time differentiation strategies
- Robust reporting
- Student Editions that include:
- High-quality narrative and informational texts
- Videos, audio supports, and digital experiences that capture their attention
- Personal Writing Journal to keep all student writing in one place
- Dedicated ELD support with Language Studio California
- Trade books
Core literacy philosophy
Support every learner. Meet all learning needs with a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) that brings together universal screening, scaffolded core instruction, support for multilingual/English learners, and data-driven intervention to ensure every student gets what they need to succeed.
Deliver consistent foundational skills instruction. Daily explicit, systematic skills instruction in grades K–2, with targeted yet flexible support for students still building decoding confidence in grades 3–6, ensures mastery of essential reading foundations.
Build lasting knowledge across all grades. Through coherently sequenced, content-rich instruction that revisits key vocabulary and concepts with increasing complexity, students build meaningful connections that deepen their vocabulary and reading comprehension.
Strengthen reading through writing at every level. Regular writing instruction grounded in the Science of Writing supports reading comprehension, improves sentence-level writing, and provides the foundation for high-quality composition. As students progress through the upper grades, they engage in increasingly complex analytical tasks—synthesizing ideas, drawing generalizations, and interpreting multiple textual layers through both focused quick-writes and comprehensive essays.
Foster oral language development. Structured opportunities for academic conversation and evidence-based dialogue build students’ ability to express complex ideas with precision and allow them to participate confidently in classroom discussions.
Measure growth with comprehensive assessments. Assessments range from in-the-moment checks for understanding to summative assessments that measure progress toward skills mastery and standards proficiency, providing the data needed to drive targeted instruction.
Scope and sequence
Below you can view the scope and sequence documents for each grade level.
- Kindergarten
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
- Grade 6
- Newcomer Support Grades K–6
Routines
Amplify CKLA California, Amplify Caminos California, and Amplify ELA California include several structured instructional routines that provide predictable patterns for both teachers and students:
Discussion and collaboration routines:
- Turn and Talk: Partners discuss text-specific content using sentence starters and frames
- Think-Pair-Share: Students engage in individual thinking, partner discussion, and whole-class sharing
- Partner reading: Students sit shoulder-to-shoulder, taking turns reading and listening
Foundational Skills routines:
- Sound-spelling review: Warm-up activities that reinforce phonics patterns
- Oral blending warm-ups: Teacher-guided practice progressing to independent application
- Finger-tapping: Techniques for blending sounds
- Chaining activities: Students manipulate letters to transform one word into another
- Word Work: Daily short activities focused on domain-specific and academic vocabulary
Knowledge-building routines:
- Teacher modeling: Demonstration of proper intonation, expression, and pacing
- Choral reading: Whole-class reading practice
- Partner reading: Paired fluency practice
Close reading routines
The program includes carefully structured close reading activities that guide students through multiple encounters with complex texts. These routines help students develop deeper comprehension through systematic analysis and discussion.
Each routine includes comprehensive instructional guides with clear-cut directions for implementation, straightforward explanations of concepts, and suggestions for discussion.
Cross-Linguistic Transfer routines
The Cross-Linguistic Transfer (CLT) routines are easy-to-implement, 10–15 minute mini-lessons designed to help bridge English and Spanish literacy and language development. These structured routines are organized by grade bands for K–2, grades 3–5 and grade 6, covering five skill areas:
- Oral language
- Reading
- Vocabulary
- Language
- Writing
[Reviewer highlight video] Amplify’s program alignment to Cross-Linguistic Transfer criteria
Designated English Language Development materials
Language Studio California is a K–8 content-based companion for English language learners. Built on Amplify CKLA California and Amplify ELA California’s carefully sequenced Knowledge Domains, it combines engaging content knowledge with targeted supports and research-based strategies to help students move swiftly toward language proficiency. This program includes:
- Real-world content to provide authentic opportunities to practice reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
- Scaffolding strategies and differentiated instruction to offer targeted support along five English proficiency levels.
- Progress monitoring tools to help teachers provide consistent and effective support.
- Teacher Guides that:
- Provide impactful progress monitoring tools including formative and summative assessments, and Language Proficiency Assessment rubrics.
- Offer varied differentiation strategies including Support, Challenge, and Access supports in each lesson segment.
- Are organized into thoughtful lesson segments—Talk Time, Building Background, On Stage and more—that make learning objectives concrete.
- Activities that:
- Expand on domain knowledge from core content and read-alouds and prompt collaborative conversation to practice oral fluency.
- Support hands-on language activities to promote authentic interaction in the classroom.
- Help students bridge experiences and knowledge with images, vocabulary activities, graphic organizers, anticipation guides, writing space, and more.
Category 3: Assessments
Systematic MTSS alignment
In alignment with the additional 2025 Guidance 3.1.a, the assessment systems align with MTSS tiers, including universal screening, diagnostic assessments for students demonstrating a need for additional support, and progress monitoring tools that complement California’s required reading difficulties screening schedule per SB 114.
| Tier 1: Universal/ differentiated support | Tier 2: Supplemental/ targeted support | Tier 3: Intensified/ intensive support | |
| Core instruction assessments Frequency of administration | Amplify CKLA California, Amplify Caminos California, Amplify ELA California assessments Daily, Weekly, Monthly | Amplify CKLA California, Amplify Caminos California, Amplify ELA California assessments Daily, Weekly, Monthly | Amplify CKLA California, Amplify Caminos California, Amplify ELA California assessments Daily, Weekly, Monthly |
| Universal screening assessments Frequency of administration | mCLASS DIBELS and Lectura 3 times per year – BOY, MOY, EOY | mCLASS DIBELS and Lectura 3 times per year – BOY, MOY, EOY | mCLASS DIBELS and Lectura 3 times per year – BOY, MOY, EOY |
| Formal progress monitoring assessments Frequency of administration | mCLASS DIBELS and Lectura 3 times per year – BOY, MOY, EOY | mCLASS DIBELS and Lectura Monthly | mCLASS DIBELS and Lectura Bi-weekly |
| Informal progress monitoring assessments Frequency of administration | Amplify CKLA California, Amplify Caminos California, Amplify ELA California core assessments Daily | Intervention Toolkit progress monitoring assessments When linked to a lesson in the toolkit | Intervention Toolkit progress monitoring assessments When linked to a lesson in the toolkit |
| Diagnostic assessment Frequency of administration | Amplify skill diagnostic assessment Amplify Spanish skill diagnostic assessment Optional after universal screening assessment is administered | Amplify skill diagnostic assessment Amplify Spanish skill diagnostic assessment After universal screening assessment is administered |
Universal assessment system
Amplify’s mCLASS® DIBELS® 8th Edition (K–8) and mCLASS Lectura (K–6) are universal and dyslexia screening assessments that should be administered three times per year (BOY, MOY, and EOY) to all students. The assessments evaluate student literacy risk, determine progress toward grade-level goals, and indicate the level of instructional support a student may need. Beginning-of-year screenings require adequate instructional time before administration, particularly in grades K–1, while mid-year and end-of-year assessments evaluate instructional effectiveness and guide tier placement adjustments. These screenings also identify students at risk for dyslexia. Universal screening provides essential data for targeting instruction and measuring instructional system effectiveness.
Core instruction assessments
Amplify CKLA California, Amplify Caminos California, and Amplify ELA California provide a comprehensive suite of assessments for grades K–6 that range from low-stakes, informal formative assessments to more formal summative assessments. These assessments incorporate a variety of methods and question types, including multiple-choice questions, open-ended questions, and oral and written responses.
Formative assessments:
- Checks for Understanding: Incorporated into each lesson segment throughout daily instruction. Quick pulse-checks that provide immediate feedback during lesson delivery (grades K–5).
- Daily formative assessments: Highlighted moments within each lesson for teachers to plan to track mastery of Primary Focus objectives and standards of each lesson to get a clear snapshot of individual and whole-class progress (grades K–5).
- Activity pages: Completed as part of lessons and can be used to assess lesson content understanding through various formats (grades K–5).
- Exit Tickets: Located at the end of lessons, these provide a quick gauge of students’ ability to meet the lesson’s focus standards (grade 6).
- Writing Prompts: Prompts integrated throughout lessons during writing activities that provide skill snapshots within lessons and tracks patterns of skill development over time (grade 6).
- Independent reading activities (Solos): At the end of every lesson, students complete an independent reading activity (“Solo”) with reading questions that are scored to measure comprehension (grade 6).
Summative assessments:
- Skills end-of-unit assessments (grades K–2)
- Knowledge end-of-domain assessments (grades K–2)
- End-of-unit assessments (grades 3–5)
- Unit essays: A culminating end-of-unit set of lessons that guide students through crafting an essay with a rubric to score mastery of writing skills (grade 6)
- Unit reading assessments: Auto-scored responses and two constructed response items evaluate comprehension, content understanding, and reading skills using the passages students read during the unit (grade 6)
Performance assessments
Student Performance Assessments are multi-day assessments administered in Grades K–5 at the beginning, middle, and end of year to help teachers gauge student mastery of grade-level Core content. These assessments provide critical data to help teachers set targeted instructional goals and monitor individual and class-wide progress towards core objectives.
Progress monitoring
Amplify’s mCLASS® DIBELS® 8th Edition and mCLASS Lectura provide formal progress monitoring in the discrete skills that are indicative of reading growth and predictive of overall success to provide the most instructionally meaningful information to teachers.
Informal progress monitoring tools can be found within the Intervention Toolkit, including materials for teachers to record, track, and evaluate student progress.
Diagnostic assessment
Interventions within Amplify’s literacy programs are informed by a skill diagnostic assessment that provides detailed data on foundational literacy skill deficits. The Amplify Skill Diagnostic Assessment and Amplify Spanish Skill Diagnostic assessment serve as critical tools in this process, administered specifically to students identified as at risk for reading difficulty through universal screening assessments—particularly those demonstrating mCLASS DIBELS 8th Edition or mCLASS Lectura composite scores in the Well Below or Below Benchmark ranges. These diagnostic assessments provide teachers with the precise skills to begin intervention and remediation.
Category 4: Universal Access
Amplify CKLA California, Amplify Caminos California, and Amplify ELA California are developed using the Universal Design for Learning framework to proactively ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.
Universal Design for Learning
Amplify CKLA California, Amplify Caminos California, and Amplify ELA California incorporate opportunities for engagement, representation, action, and expression based on the guidelines of Universal Design for Learning.
- Multiple Means of Engagement: The programs incorporate interesting and motivating ways for students to interact with information and content. The Universal Access section in the introduction of each lesson provides specific lesson-level options based on the needs of individual classrooms and students. Scaffolding for students with various levels of need is incorporated into the design of each lesson.
- Multiple Means of Representation: The programs provide multiple means of presenting content to maximize student understanding. This includes digital component files that allow for a range of presentations of images and text to support learning. Amplify provides access to universal supports such as point-of-use audio for all core texts, embedded definitions for critical vocabulary, and glossaries in multiple languages. The programs include clarification on language found throughout the program, with sidebars that include support on transition words and syntax, and illustrations to help students understand the concepts they are learning.
- Multiple Means of Action and Expression: The programs include a range of methods for all students, including Multilingual/English Learners, to navigate and demonstrate learning. This includes physical actions, a range of methods for response, appropriate tools for composition, and varied scaffolding. Lessons provide multiple ways for students to interact with text, allowing their brains to process the language through distinct pathways. Activities harness multiple learning modes, using media tools, digital apps, and a variety of visual and physical experiences to strategically support and enhance student learning.
- Accessibility: Universal access features include visual aids, enlarged materials, physical objects, and multiple learning modalities through activities like Push & Say and Wiggle Cards. The Universal Access section in the introduction of each lesson provides specific lesson-level options based on the needs of individual classrooms and students.
Embedded differentiation
Amplify CKLA California, Amplify Caminos California, and Amplify ELA California provide built-in differentiation strategies in every lesson for all students.
- Pre-teaching supports include mini-lessons on:
- Core vocabulary building
- Core connections
- Essential background information building
- What Have We Already Learned?/What Do We Already Know?
- Differentiated Support for Core Instruction tables, located in the overview of each K–2 Skills Teacher Guide, provide a list of specific opportunities for reteaching and additional support in each lesson based on skill.
- Support and Challenge Sidebars in lesson margins offer educators immediate guidance in implementing point-of-use differentiation techniques.
- Flexible Grouping within lessons provides opportunities for teachers to facilitate small groups, partners, or individualized support based on students’ needs. In the Skills Strand, teachers receive specific guidance for differentiated small group instruction, with targeted support and activities outlined for both Group 1 (students needing additional support) and Group 2 (on-level students) based on data.
- Amplify ELA California and Amplify Caminos California provide point-of-use supports embedded within key core lesson activities with six levels of differentiation. The goal of these supports is to fully enable access to grade-level content for all students, including students with disabilities, English learners, and students ready for an additional level of challenge.
- The Universal Access section of Advance Preparation in each lesson includes varied strategies to ensure all students can access and engage in each lesson.
- Frequent use of graphic organizers and visual supports in lessons provide opportunities for differentiation based on need. The program also includes a variety of technological supports, such as eReaders with audio.
- Extension opportunities are suggested throughout lessons, often embedded in writing tasks, which include prompts to use more complex and descriptive vocabulary, figurative language, multi-clause and complex sentences, and informational text characteristics.
Assessment-driven MTSS resources
- The K–6 Intervention Toolkit is available online and provides easy-to-use resources that assist teachers in filling gaps in students’ reading skills, with activities to support print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, and other key skills.
- Fluency packets (Grades 2–6)
- Foundational Skills Intervention Program for Grades 3–6 support students who would benefit from direct and explicit intervention instruction in the full continuum of foundational skills in the upper grades
- Flexible Instructional Time including:
- Pausing Points built into the curriculum that provide teachers with dedicated time to address specific student needs through targeted reteaching, remediation, practice, and extension activities
- Pausing Point activities designed to support multilingual/English learners’ competence and confidence through differentiated whole-group, small-group, or individual instruction
- Boost Reading and Boost Lectura are student-led digital intervention programs that follow the scope and sequences of Amplify CKLA California and Amplify Caminos California respectively, to reinforce the same foundational skills taught in core instruction. It integrates easily into daily routines, while the robust data provided by mCLASS® DIBELS® 8th Edition offers a detailed view of how students progress across all instructional tiers.
Category 5: Instructional Planning and Teacher Support
Amplify CKLA California, Amplify Caminos California, and Amplify ELA California teachers are empowered to deliver effective instruction with various print and digital resources. The program provides comprehensive planning and support materials designed to help teachers prepare for and execute lessons effectively and fulfill the requirements of Category 5.
Implementation supports across K–6
Planning and preparation resources
- Unit Overviews that provide important background and context for the texts students will read, including highlighted elements within the text and guidance for how students will work with those elements
- Sub-unit Overviews (Grade 6) that provide an overview of Lesson Objectives and reading and writing assignments, as well as a list of any projections, multimedia, or digital apps that can be projected from the teacher’s included digital license
- Lesson-by-lesson preparation checklists (Grade 6) accompanying each Sub-unit Overview
- Lesson Briefs for each individual lesson providing important background and context
- Content knowledge materials regarding topics that students will examine
Point-of-use instructional guidance
- Teacher Editions that feature insets of the same text and activity instructions as the corresponding Student Edition, wrapping teacher instruction around these materials
- Activity guidance at point of use
- Lesson standards clearly called out
- Discussion suggestions embedded in lessons
- Differentiation tips at point of use
- Detailed Instructional Guides in each activity that include sequencing and grouping suggestions, tips for facilitating discussion, possible student responses and exemplars
- On-the-Fly supports (Grade 6)—quick call-outs to the identifying features of “on track” and “needs support” students accompanied by short models of student guidance to foster strong performance
Multimedia and digital support
- Teacher tip videos provide modeling and guidance for implementing key foundational skills routines within the program
- Digital platform access where teachers can access printable PDFs of differentiated support materials for multilingual/English learners and students struggling to read, including translated Unit Background and Context documents and Text Previews
- Teacher Dashboard and reporting tools provide real-time visibility into student progress and work for immediate instructional response
Caregiver supports
Communication and overview resources
- Caregiver Hub available in English and Spanish that provides an overview of the curriculum
- Caregiver Letters for each K–2 Knowledge Domain and unit in Grades 3–5 that provide an overview of the content, the skills students learn, as well as practical methods that continue the learning and knowledge building at home
- Unit-specific Caregiver Letters (Grade 6) that provide detailed information regarding what students will read and learn in each unit, including conversation starters that allow caregivers to ask questions and discuss specific aspects of a unit with their student
- Welcome letters that explain the assessment and placement process while inviting parent involvement and offering support
- Editable Home-School Communication letters available in English and Spanish
- Editable Progress Reports for teachers to update parents and guardians on what their child is learning
Content and learning support materials
- Unit Background and Context documents that provide an introduction and overview to the unit’s topic and themes, available in English and Spanish
- Text Previews that provide a brief introduction to formative, independent reading assignments (called Solos in Grade 6), available in English and Spanish
- Unit Overview and Support documents (Grade 6) designed for caregivers that provide information about important questions, assignments, and key aspects of the unit texts, available in English and Spanish
- Conversation starters included in Knowledge Strand Caregiver Letters to discuss domain topics at home
Home practice and extension activities
- Take-Home pages in the Skills Strand that include copies of decodable passages, enabling students to share their reading progress with families and continue practicing their skills outside of school
- Take-Home Letters in the Skills Strand that provide specific guidance for parents to support skills practice at home, such as sound-sorting activities, with detailed instructions and materials for home practice activities
- Take-Home pages in the Knowledge Strand that provide suggested activities families can do together to reinforce and extend learning beyond the classroom
- Games and activities on Take-Home Pages that extend classroom instruction, including all the materials and instruction necessary to help families assist students in a fun and engaging way
- Digital access to decodable texts through the Amplify Caregiver Hub, allowing students to practice their reading skills both in class and at home
- Weekly spelling lists and directions to decoding activities that can be practiced at home
Welcome, K–8 Program 2 reviewers!
We’re honored to introduce you to Amplify California Language Arts. We’re confident you’ll find this comprehensive program to be a powerful tool for bringing the vision of the California ELA/ELD Framework to life in classrooms across the state.
Please start with the video on the right to learn how to navigate the program and access key features referenced within our submission. Below you’ll find additional resources to support your review.
Your review samples
We’re excited for you to begin your review of Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) California and Amplify ELA California, Language Studio California for grades K–8. Physical and digital review materials will vary by grade level.
Reviewer Binders (K–8)
Your physical samples should have arrived in grade-specific boxes with three Reviewer Binders.
- The first binder will contain logistical program review information and the printed Evaluation Criteria Map.
- The second binder will contain the printed Standards Maps for grades K–4.
- The third binder will contain the printed Standards Maps for grades 5–8.
Physical samples (K–5)
You can expect to receive 15 boxes of physical materials for your review. As you begin the process of organizing your materials, please refer to the inventory checklist found inside each box as well as within your Reviewer Binder. Please note you will not receive any physical samples for grades 6–8 ELA or Language Studio for grades K-8. Your review of the program for grades 6–8 ELA and Language Studio for grades K-8 will be entirely digital.
Digital samples
In order to access your digital samples, you’ll need to log in to our platform using your unique login credentials found on a Digital Review Credential flyer inside of your Reviewer Binder. Once you have located the flyer:
- Click the orange button below to access the platform.
- Click “Log in with Amplify.”
- Enter the username and password provided on your Digital Review Credential flyer.
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Category 1: English Language Arts (ELA) and English Language Development (ELD) Content/Alignment to Standards
Evaluation Criteria Map
Linked below is the Evaluation Criteria Map for grades K–8. Please note that you will need to be logged into the digital platform to access the links in the Evaluation Criteria Map.
ELA Standards Maps
The links below provide the Standards Maps for Amplify California Language Arts for each grade level. Please note that you will need to be logged into the digital platform to access the links in the Standards Maps.
ELD Standards Maps
The links below provide the ELD Standards Maps for Amplify California Core Language Arts for each grade level.
Category 2: Program Organization
The Amplify California Language Arts Program 2 submission includes Amplify CKLA California for Grades K–5, Amplify ELA California for Grades 6–8, and Amplify Language Studio California for Grades K–8. This comprehensive curriculum provides a full year of evidence-based instruction for each grade level, with both integrated and designated English Language Development instruction designed to give English learners the tools to thrive.
Program structure
Amplify’s California Language Arts programs are built on what the research shows: Strong readers need both word recognition and language comprehension. Our comprehensive curriculum suite follows the Simple View of Reading and The Reading Rope–bringing together foundational skills and knowledge building to deliver instruction grounded in the Science of Reading.


Each lesson follows a predictable structure with clearly marked components, beginning with warm-up routines, progressing through explicit instruction with guided practice, and concluding with independent application activities. The program provides detailed teacher language, including question stems and discussion prompts, ensuring clear and consistent delivery of instruction.
[Reviewer highlight video] Program organization for Category 2
[Reviewer highlight video] Program structure for grades K–2
[Reviewer highlight video] Program structure for grades 3–5
[Reviewer highlight video] Program structure for grades 6–8
Amplify CKLA California empowers teachers to deliver effective instruction and keeps students engaged with with the following resources:
- Teacher Guides
- Assessment Guides
- Authentic texts and trade books
- Knowledge Image Cards
- Knowledge Flip Books
- Remediation and intervention resources
- Decodable readers
- Student Readers and novels
- Student Activity Books
- Dedicated ELD support with Language Studio California
- Poet’s Journals
- eReaders
- Sound Library featuring articulation videos and songs
- Instructional routine modeling videos
- Assignable Practice Games
- On-demand professional development
Amplify ELA California students stay engaged with the following resources:
- Teacher Guides that include:
- Detailed lesson plans
- Standards alignment and exit tickets
- Real-time differentiation strategies
- Robust reporting
- Student Editions that include:
- High-quality narrative and informational texts
- Videos, audio supports, and digital experiences that capture their attention
- Personal Writing Journal to keep all student writing in one place
- Dedicated ELD support with Language Studio California
- Trade Books
Core literacy philosophy
Support every learner. Meet all learning needs with a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) that brings together universal screening, scaffolded core instruction, support for English learners, and data-driven intervention to ensure every student gets what they need to succeed.
Provide intentional ELD support. Honor students’ linguistic assets while building academic English through both integrated and designated instruction.
Deliver consistent foundational skills instruction. Daily explicit, systematic skills instruction in grades K–2, with targeted yet flexible support for students still building decoding confidence in grades 3–8, ensures mastery of essential reading foundations.
Build lasting knowledge across all grades. Through coherently sequenced, content-rich instruction that revisits key vocabulary and concepts with increasing complexity, students build meaningful connections that deepen their vocabulary and reading comprehension.
Strengthen reading through writing at every level. Regular writing instruction grounded in the Science of Writing supports reading comprehension, improves sentence-level writing, and provides the foundation for high-quality composition. As students progress through the upper grades, they engage in increasingly complex analytical tasks—synthesizing ideas, drawing generalizations, and interpreting multiple textual layers through both focused quick-writes and comprehensive essays.
Foster oral language development. Structured opportunities for academic conversation and evidence-based dialogue build students’ ability to express complex ideas with precision and allow them to participate confidently in classroom discussions.
Measure growth with comprehensive assessments. Assessments range from in-the-moment checks for understanding to summative assessments that measure progress toward skills mastery and standards proficiency, providing the data needed to drive targeted instruction.
Scope and sequence
Below you can view the scope and sequence for each grade level.
- Kindergarten
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
- Newcomer Support Grades K–8
Routines
Amplify CKLA California and Amplify ELA California include several structured instructional routines that provide predictable patterns for both teachers and students:
Discussion and collaboration routines:
- Turn and Talk: Partners discuss text-specific content using sentence starters and frames
- Think-Pair-Share: Students engage in individual thinking, partner discussion, and whole-class sharing
- Partner reading: Students sit shoulder-to-shoulder, taking turns reading and listening
Foundational Skills routines:
- Sound-spelling review: Warm-up activities that reinforce phonics patterns
- Oral blending warm-ups: Teacher-guided practice progressing to independent application
- Finger-tapping: Techniques for blending sounds
- Chaining activities: Students manipulate letters to transform one word into another
- Word Work: Daily short activities focused on domain-specific and academic vocabulary
Knowledge-Building Routines:
- Teacher modeling: Demonstration of proper intonation, expression, and pacing
- Choral reading: Whole-class reading practice
- Partner reading: Paired fluency practice
Close reading routines
The program includes carefully structured close reading activities that guide students through multiple encounters with complex texts. These routines help students develop deeper comprehension through systematic analysis and discussion.
Each routine includes comprehensive instructional guides with clear-cut directions for implementation, straightforward explanations of concepts, and suggestions for discussion.
Designated English Language Development materials
Language Studio California is a K–8 content-based companion for English language learners. Built on Amplify CKLA California’s and Amplify ELA California’s carefully sequenced Knowledge Domains and units, it combines engaging content knowledge with targeted supports and research-based strategies to help students move swiftly toward language proficiency. This program includes:
- Real-world content to provide authentic opportunities to practice reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
- Scaffolding strategies and differentiated instruction to offer targeted support along with five English proficiency levels.
- Progress-monitoring tools to help teachers provide consistent and effective support.
- Teacher Guides that:
- Provide impactful progress monitoring tools including formative and summative assessments and Language Proficiency Assessment rubrics.
- Offer varied differentiation strategies including Support, Challenge, and Access Supports in each lesson segment.
- Are organized into thoughtful lesson segments—Talk Time, Building Background, On Stage and more—that make learning objectives concrete.
- Activities that:
- Expand on domain knowledge from core content and read-alouds and prompt collaborative conversation to practice oral fluency.
- Support hands-on language activities to promote authentic interaction in the classroom.
- Help students bridge experiences and knowledge with images, vocabulary activities, graphic organizers, anticipation guides, writing space, and more.
Category 3: Assessments
Systematic MTSS alignment
In alignment with the additional 2025 Guidance 3.1.a, the assessment systems align with MTSS tiers, including universal screening, diagnostic assessments for students demonstrating a need for additional support, and progress monitoring tools that complement the California’s required universal screening schedule per SB 114.
| Tier 1: Universal/ differentiated support | Tier 2: Supplemental/ targeted support | Tier 3: Intensified/ intensive support | |
| Core instruction assessments Frequency of administration | Amplify CKLA California, Amplify Caminos California, Amplify ELA California assessments Daily, Weekly, Monthly | Amplify CKLA California, Amplify Caminos California, Amplify ELA California assessments Daily, Weekly, Monthly | Amplify CKLA California, Amplify Caminos California, Amplify ELA California assessments Daily, Weekly, Monthly |
| Universal screening assessments Frequency of administration | mCLASS DIBELS and Lectura 3 times per year – BOY, MOY, EOY | mCLASS DIBELS and Lectura 3 times per year – BOY, MOY, EOY | mCLASS DIBELS and Lectura 3 times per year – BOY, MOY, EOY |
| Formal progress monitoring assessments Frequency of administration | mCLASS DIBELS and Lectura 3 times per year – BOY, MOY, EOY | mCLASS DIBELS and Lectura Monthly | mCLASS DIBELS and Lectura Bi-weekly |
| Informal progress monitoring assessments Frequency of administration | Amplify CKLA California, Amplify Caminos California, Amplify ELA California core assessments Daily | Intervention Toolkit progress monitoring assessments When linked to a lesson in the toolkit | Intervention Toolkit progress monitoring assessments When linked to a lesson in the toolkit |
| Diagnostic assessment Frequency of administration | Amplify skill diagnostic assessment Amplify Spanish skill diagnostic assessment Optional after universal screening assessment is administered | Amplify skill diagnostic assessment Amplify Spanish skill diagnostic assessment After universal screening assessment is administered |
Universal assessment system
Amplify’s mCLASS® DIBELS® 8th Edition and mCLASS Lectura are universal and dyslexia screening assessments that should be administered three times per year (BOY, MOY and EOY) to all students. The assessments evaluate student literacy risk, determine progress toward grade-level goals, and indicate the level of instructional support a student may need. Beginning-of-year screenings require adequate instructional time before administration, particularly in grades K–1, while mid-year and end-of-year assessments evaluate instructional effectiveness and guide tier placement adjustments. These screenings also identify students at risk for dyslexia. Universal screening provides essential data for targeting instruction and measuring instructional system effectiveness.
Core instruction assessments
Amplify CKLA California and Amplify ELA California provide a comprehensive suite of assessments for Grades K–8 that range from low-stakes, informal formative assessments to more formal summative assessments. These assessments incorporate a variety of methods and question types, including multiple-choice questions, open-ended questions, and oral and written responses.
Formative assessments:
- Checks for Understanding: Incorporated into each lesson segment throughout daily instruction. Quick pulse-checks that provide immediate feedback during lesson delivery (grades K–5).
- Daily formative assessments: Highlighted moments within each lesson for teachers to plan to track mastery of Primary Focus objectives and standards of each lesson to get a clear snapshot of individual and whole-class progress (grades K–5).
- Activity pages: Completed as part of lessons and can be used to assess lesson content understanding through various formats (grades K–5).
- Exit Tickets: Located at the end of lessons, these provide a quick gauge of students’ ability to meet the lesson’s focus standards (grades 6–8).
- Writing Prompts: Prompts integrated throughout lessons during writing activities that provide skill snapshots within lessons and tracks patterns of skill development over time (grades 6–8).
- Independent reading activities (Solos): At the end of every lesson, students complete an independent reading activity (“solo”) with reading questions that are scored to measure comprehension (grades 6–8).
Summative assessments:
- Skills end-of-unit assessments (grades K–2)
- Knowledge end-of-domain assessments (grades K–2)
- End-of-unit assessments (grades 3–5)
- Unit essays: A culminating end-of-unit set of lessons that guide students through crafting an essay with a rubric to score mastery of writing skills (grades 6–8)
- Unit Reading Assessments: Auto-scored responses and two constructed response items evaluate comprehension, content understanding, and reading skills using the passages students read during the unit (grades 6–8)
Performance Assessments
Student Performance Assessments are multi-day assessments administered in Grades K-5 at the beginning, middle, and end of year to help teachers gauge student mastery of grade-level Core content. These assessments provide critical data to help teachers set targeted instructional goals and monitor individual and class-wide progress towards core objectives.
Progress monitoring
Amplify’s mCLASS® DIBELS® 8th Edition and mCLASS Lectura provide formal progress monitoring in the discrete skills that are indicative of reading growth and predictive of overall success to provide the most instructionally meaningful information to teachers.
Informal progress monitoring tools can be found within the Intervention Toolkit, including materials for teachers to record, track, and evaluate student progress.
Diagnostic assessment
Interventions within Amplify’s literacy programs are informed by a skill diagnostic assessment that provides detailed data on foundational literacy skill deficits. The Amplify Skill Diagnostic Assessment and Amplify Spanish Skill Diagnostic assessment serve as critical tools in this process, administered specifically to students identified as at risk for reading difficulty through universal screening assessments—particularly those demonstrating mCLASS DIBELS 8th Edition or mCLASS Lectura composite scores in the Well Below or Below Benchmark ranges. These diagnostic assessments provide teachers with the precise skills to begin intervention and remediation.
Category 4: Universal Access
Amplify CKLA California and Amplify ELA California were built on the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and reviewed by CAST, a nonprofit education research and development organization. The program is developed using the Universal Design for Learning framework to proactively ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.
Universal Design for Learning
The programs incorporate opportunities for engagement, representation, action, and expression based on the guidelines of Universal Design for Learning.
- Multiple Means of Engagement: The programs incorporate interesting and motivating ways for students to interact with information and content. In Amplify CKLA California, the Universal Access section in the introduction of each lesson provides specific lesson-level options based on the needs of individual classrooms and students. Scaffolding for students with various levels of need is incorporated into the design of each lesson.
- Multiple Means of Representation: The programs provide multiple means of presenting content to maximize student understanding. This includes digital component files that allow for a range of presentations of images and text to support learning. Amplify provides access to universal supports such as point-of-use audio for all core texts, embedded definitions for critical vocabulary, and glossaries in multiple languages. Amplify CKLA California includes clarification on language found throughout the program, with sidebars that include support on transition words and syntax, and illustrations to help students understand the concepts they are learning.
- Multiple Means of Action and Expression: The programs include a range of methods for all students, including English Learners, to navigate and demonstrate learning. This includes physical actions, a range of methods for response, appropriate tools for composition, and varied scaffolding. In Amplify ELA California, lessons provide multiple ways for students to interact with text, allowing their brains to process the language through distinct pathways. Activities harness multiple learning modes, using media tools, digital apps, and a variety of visual and physical experiences to strategically support and enhance student learning.
- Accessibility: Universal access features include visual aids, enlarged materials, physical objects, and multiple learning modalities through activities like Push & Say and Wiggle Cards. The Universal Access section in the introduction of each lesson provides specific lesson-level options based on the needs of individual classrooms and students.
Embedded differentiation
Amplify CKLA California and Amplify ELA California provide built-in differentiation strategies in every lesson for all students.
Throughout the Teacher Guides, point-of-use Differentiation icons provide targeted instructional strategies and supports. These icons indicate specific guidance for advanced learners, students who need additional support, and English learners, allowing teachers to easily identify and implement appropriate scaffolds and extensions during instruction. In addition, teachers are provided with recommendations for resources to use with each group of students.
- Pre-teaching supports include mini-lessons on:
- Core vocabulary words
- Core Connections
- Essential Background Information or Terms
- What Have We Already Learned/What Do We Already Know?
- Differentiated Support for Core Instruction tables, located in the overview of each K–2 Skills Teacher Guide, provide a list of specific opportunities for reteaching and additional support in each lesson based on skill.
- Support and Challenge Sidebars in lesson margins offer educators immediate guidance in implementing point-of-use differentiation techniques.
- Flexible Grouping within lessons provides opportunities for teachers to facilitate small groups, partners, or individualized support based on students’ needs. In the Skills Strand, teachers receive specific guidance for differentiated small-group instruction, with targeted support and activities outlined for both Group 1 (students needing additional support) and Group 2 (on-level students) based on data.
- Amplify ELA California provides point-of-use supports embedded within key core lesson activities with six levels of differentiation. The goal of these supports is to fully enable access to grade-level content for all students, including students with disabilities, English learners, and students ready for an additional level of challenge.
- The Universal Access section of Advance Preparation in each lesson includes varied strategies to ensure all students can access and engage in each lesson.
- Frequent use of graphic organizers and visual supports in lessons provide opportunities for differentiation based on need. The program also includes a variety of technological supports, such as eReaders with audio.
- Extension opportunities are suggested throughout lessons, often embedded in writing tasks, which include prompts to use more complex and descriptive vocabulary, figurative language, multi-clause and complex sentences, and informational text characteristics.
Assessment-Driven MTSS resources
- The K–8 Intervention Toolkit is available online and provides easy-to-use resources that assist teachers in filling gaps in students’ reading skills, with activities to support print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, and other key skills
- Fluency Packets (Grades 2–5)
- Foundational Skills Intervention Program for Grades 3–8 support students who would benefit from direct and explicit intervention instruction in the full continuum of foundational skills in the upper grades
- Flexible Instructional Time including:
- Pausing Points built into the curriculum that provide teachers with dedicated time to address specific student needs through targeted reteaching, remediation, practice, and extension activities
- Pausing Point activities designed to support English learners’ competence and confidence through differentiated whole-group, small-group, or individual instruction
- Boost Reading is a K–5 student-led digital intervention program. Boost Reading follows Amplify CKLA California’s scope and sequence to reinforce the same foundational skills taught in core instruction. It integrates easily into daily routines, while the robust data provided by mCLASS® DIBELS® 8th Edition offers a detailed view of how students progress across all instructional tiers.
Category 5: Instructional Planning and Teacher Support
Amplify CKLA California and Amplify ELA California teachers are empowered to deliver effective instruction with various print and digital resources. The program provides comprehensive planning and support materials designed to help teachers prepare for and execute lessons effectively and fulfill the requirements of Category 5.
Implementation supports across K–8
Planning and preparation resources
- Unit Overviews that provide important background and context for the texts students will read, including highlighted elements within the text and guidance for how students will work with those elements
- Sub-unit Overviews (Grades 6–8) that provide an overview of Lesson Objectives and reading and writing assignments, as well as a list of any projections, multimedia, or digital apps that can be projected from the teacher’s included digital license
- Lesson-by-lesson preparation checklists (Grades 6–8) accompanying each Sub-unit Overview
- Lesson Briefs for each individual lesson providing important background and context
- Content knowledge materials regarding topics that students will examine
Point-of-use instructional guidance
- Teacher Editions that feature insets of the same text and activity instructions as the corresponding Student Edition, wrapping teacher instruction around these materials
- Activity guidance at point of use
- Lesson standards clearly called out
- Discussion suggestions embedded in lessons
- Differentiation tips at point of use
- Detailed Instructional Guides in each activity that include sequencing and grouping suggestions, tips for facilitating discussion, possible student responses and exemplars
- Student Supports in all core lessons that provide teachers with targeted supports in daily core instruction, addressing which might serve the student best in the moment—support, strengthen, stretch—with additional call-outs for newcomers
Multimedia and digital support
- Teacher tip videos provide modeling and guidance for implementing key foundational skills routines within the program
- Digital platform access where teachers can access printable PDFs of differentiated support materials for English learners and students struggling with reading, including translated Unit Background and Context documents and Text Previews
- Teacher dashboard and reporting tools (Grade 6–8) provide real-time visibility into student progress and work for immediate instructional response
Caregiver supports
Communication and overview resources
- Caregiver Hub available in English and Spanish that provides an overview of the curriculum
- Caregiver Letters for each K–2 Knowledge Domain and unit in Grades 3–5 that provide an overview of the content, the skills students learn, as well as practical methods that continue the learning and knowledge building at home
- Unit-specific Caregiver Letters (Grades 6–8) that provide detailed information regarding what students will read and learn in each unit, including conversation starters that allow caregivers to ask questions and discuss specific aspects of a unit with their student
- Welcome letters that explain the assessment and placement process while inviting parent involvement and offering support
- Editable Home-School Communication letters available in English and Spanish
- Editable Progress Reports for teachers to update parents and guardians on what their child is learning
Content and learning support materials
- Unit Background and Context documents that provide an introduction and overview to the unit’s topic and themes, available in English and Spanish
- Text Previews that provide a brief introduction to formative, independent reading assignments (called Solos in Grades 6–8), available in English and Spanish
- Unit Overview and Support documents (Grades 6–8) designed for caregivers that provide information about important questions, assignments, and key aspects of the unit texts, available in English and Spanish
- Conversation starters included in Knowledge Strand Caregiver Letters to discuss domain topics at home
Home practice and extension activities
- Take-Home pages in the Skills Strand that include copies of decodable passages, enabling students to share their reading progress with families and continue practicing their skills outside of school
- Take-Home Letters in the Skills Strand that provide specific guidance for parents to support skills practice at home, such as sound-sorting activities, with detailed instructions and materials for home practice activities
- Take-Home pages in the Knowledge Strand that provide suggested activities families can do together to reinforce and extend learning beyond the classroom
- Games and activities on take-home pages that extend classroom instruction, including all the materials and instruction necessary to help families assist students in a fun and engaging way
- Digital access to decodable texts through the Amplify Caregiver Hub, allowing students to practice their reading skills both in class and at home
- Weekly spelling lists and directions to decoding activities that can be practiced at home
Welcome, K–8 Program 1 reviewers!
We’re honored to introduce you to Amplify California Language Arts. We’re confident you’ll find this comprehensive program to be a powerful tool for bringing the vision of the California ELA Framework to life in classrooms across the state.
Please start with the video on the right to learn how to navigate the program and access key features referenced within our submission. Below you’ll find additional resources to support your review.
Your review samples
We’re excited for you to begin your review of Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) California and Amplify ELA California. Physical and digital review materials will vary by grade level.
Reviewer Binders (K–8)
Your physical samples should have arrived in grade-specific boxes with three Reviewer Binders.
- The first binder will contain logistical program review information and the printed Evaluation Criteria Map.
- The second binder will contain the printed Standards Maps for grades K–4.
- The third binder will contain the printed Standards Maps for grades 5–8.
Physical samples (K–5)
You can expect to receive 15 boxes of physical materials for your review. As you begin the process of organizing your materials, please refer to the inventory checklist found inside each box as well as within your Reviewer Binder. Please note you will not receive any physical samples for grades 6–8. Your review of the program for grades 6–8 will be entirely digital.
Digital samples (K–8)
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Category 1: English Language Arts (ELA) and English Language Development (ELD) Content/Alignment to Standards
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Category 2: Program Organization
The Amplify California Language Arts Program 1 submission includes Amplify CKLA California for Grades K–5 and Amplify ELA California for Grades 6–8. This comprehensive curriculum provides a full year of evidence-based instruction for each grade level, transitioning from foundational literacy to advanced text analysis.
Program structure
Amplify’s California Language Arts programs are built on what the research shows: Strong readers need both word recognition and language comprehension. Our comprehensive curriculum suite follows the Simple View of Reading and The Reading Rope–bringing together foundational skills and knowledge building to deliver instruction grounded in evidence-based literacy practices.


Each lesson follows a predictable structure with clearly marked components, beginning with warm-up routines, progressing through explicit instruction with guided practice, and concluding with independent application activities. The program provides detailed teacher language, including question stems and discussion prompts, ensuring clear and consistent delivery of instruction.
[Reviewer highlight video] Program organization for Category 2
[Reviewer highlight video] Program structure for grades K–2
[Reviewer highlight video] Program structure for grades 3–5
[Reviewer highlight video] Program structure for grades 6–8
Amplify CKLA California empowers teachers to deliver effective instruction and keeps students engaged with the following resources:
- Teacher Guides
- Assessment Guides
- Authentic texts and trade books
- Knowledge Image Cards
- Knowledge Flip Books
- Remediation and intervention resources
- Decodable readers
- Student Readers and novels
- Student Activity Books
- Poet’s Journals
- eReaders
- Sound Library featuring articulation videos and songs
- Instructional routine modeling videos
- Assignable Practice Games
- On-demand professional development
Amplify ELA California students stay engaged with the following resources:
- Teacher Guides that include:
- Detailed lesson plans
- Standards alignment and exit tickets
- Real-time differentiation strategies
- Robust reporting
- Student Editions that include:
- High-quality narrative and informational texts
- Videos, audio supports, and digital experiences that capture their attention
- Personal Writing Journal to keep all student writing in one place
- Trade Books
Core literacy philosophy
Support every learner. Meet all learning needs with a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) that brings together universal screening, scaffolded core instruction, support for English learners, and data-driven intervention to ensure every student gets what they need to succeed.
Deliver consistent foundational skills instruction. Daily explicit, systematic skills instruction in grades K–2, with targeted yet flexible support for students still building decoding confidence in grades 3–8, ensures mastery of essential reading foundations.
Build lasting knowledge across all grades. Through coherently sequenced, content-rich instruction that revisits key vocabulary and concepts with increasing complexity, students build meaningful connections that deepen their vocabulary and reading comprehension.
Strengthen reading through writing at every level. Regular writing instruction grounded in the Science of Writing supports reading comprehension, improves sentence-level writing, and provides the foundation for high-quality composition. As students progress through the upper grades, they engage in increasingly complex analytical tasks—synthesizing ideas, drawing generalizations, and interpreting multiple textual layers through both focused quick-writes and comprehensive essays.
Foster oral language development. Structured opportunities for academic conversation and evidence-based dialogue build students’ ability to express complex ideas with precision and allow them to participate confidently in classroom discussions.
Measure growth with comprehensive assessments. Assessments range from in-the-moment checks for understanding to summative assessments that measure progress toward skills mastery and standards proficiency, providing the data needed to drive targeted instruction.
Scope and sequence
Below you can view the scope and sequence for each grade level.
Routines
Amplify CKLA California and Amplify ELA California include several structured instructional routines that provide predictable patterns for both teachers and students:
Discussion and collaboration routines:
- Turn and Talk: Partners discuss text-specific content using sentence starters and frames
- Think-Pair-Share: Students engage in individual thinking, partner discussion, and whole-class sharing
- Partner reading: Students sit shoulder-to-shoulder, taking turns reading and listening
Foundational Skills routines:
- Sound-spelling review: Warm-up activities that reinforce phonics patterns
- Oral blending warm-ups: Teacher-guided practice progressing to independent application
- Finger tapping: Techniques for blending sounds
- Chaining activities: Students manipulate letters to transform one word into another
- Word Work: Daily short activities focused on domain-specific and academic vocabulary
Knowledge-building routines:
- Vocabulary preview: Introduction of new words before reading
- Read-aloud procedures: Established routines for introducing and discussing complex texts
- Text discussions: Structured comprehension conversations with scaffolded questioning
Fluency routines:
- Teacher modeling: Demonstration of proper intonation, expression, and pacing
- Choral reading: Whole-class reading practice
- Partner reading: Paired fluency practice
Close reading routines
The program includes carefully structured close reading activities that guide students through multiple encounters with complex texts. These routines help students develop deeper comprehension through systematic analysis and discussion.
Each routine includes comprehensive instructional guides with clear-cut directions for implementation, straightforward explanations of concepts, and suggestions for discussion.
Category 3: Assessments
Systematic MTSS alignment
In alignment with the additional 2025 Guidance 3.1.a, the assessment systems align with MTSS tiers, including universal screening, diagnostic assessments for students demonstrating a need for additional support, and progress monitoring tools that complement California’s required universal screening schedule per SB 114.
| Tier 1: Universal/ differentiated support | Tier 2: Supplemental/ targeted support | Tier 3: Intensified/ intensive support | |
| Core instruction assessments Frequency of administration | Amplify CKLA California, Amplify ELA California assessments Daily, Weekly, Monthly | Amplify CKLA California, Amplify ELA California assessments Daily, Weekly, Monthly | Amplify CKLA California, Amplify ELA California assessments Daily, Weekly, Monthly |
| Universal screening assessments Frequency of administration | mCLASS DIBELS and mCLASS Lectura 3 times per year – BOY, MOY, EOY | mCLASS DIBELS and mCLASS Lectura 3 times per year – BOY, MOY, EOY | mCLASS DIBELS and mCLASS Lectura 3 times per year – BOY, MOY, EOY |
| Formal progress monitoring assessments Frequency of administration | mCLASS DIBELS and mCLASS Lectura 3 times per year – BOY, MOY, EOY | mCLASS DIBELS and mCLASS Lectura Monthly | mCLASS DIBELS and mCLASS Lectura Bi-weekly |
| Informal progress monitoring assessments Frequency of administration | Amplify CKLA California, Amplify ELA California core assessments Daily | Intervention Toolkit progress monitoring assessments When linked to a lesson in the toolkit | Intervention Toolkit progress monitoring assessments When linked to a lesson in the toolkit |
| Diagnostic assessment Frequency of administration | Amplify skill diagnostic assessment Optional after universal screening assessment is administered | Amplify skill diagnostic assessment After universal screening assessment is administered |
Universal assessment system
Amplify’s mCLASS® DIBELS® 8th Edition (K–8) and mCLASS Lectura (K–6) are universal and dyslexia screening assessments that should be administered three times per year (BOY, MOY and EOY) to all students. The assessments evaluate student literacy risk, determine progress toward grade-level goals, and indicate the level of instructional support a student may need. Beginning-of-year screenings require adequate instructional time before administration, particularly in grades K–1, while mid-year and end-of-year assessments evaluate instructional effectiveness and guide tier placement adjustments. These screenings also identify students at risk for dyslexia. Universal screening provides essential data for targeting instruction and measuring instructional system effectiveness.
Core instruction assessments
Amplify CKLA California and Amplify ELA California provide a comprehensive suite of assessments for Grades K–8 that range from low-stakes, informal formative assessments to more formal summative assessments. These assessments incorporate a variety of methods and question types, including multiple-choice questions, open-ended questions, and oral and written responses.
Formative assessments:
- Checks for Understanding: Incorporated into each lesson segment throughout daily instruction. Quick pulse-checks that provide immediate feedback during lesson delivery (grades K–5).
- Daily formative assessments: Highlighted moments within each lesson for teachers to plan to track mastery of Primary Focus objectives and standards of each lesson to get a clear snapshot of individual and whole-class progress (grades K–5).
- Activity pages: Completed as part of lessons and can be used to assess lesson content understanding through various formats (grades K–5).
- Exit Tickets: Located at the end of lessons, these provide a quick gauge of students’ ability to meet the lesson’s focus standards (grades 6–8).
- Writing Prompts: Prompts integrated throughout lessons during writing activities that provide skill snapshots within lessons and tracks patterns of skill development over time (grades 6–8).
- Independent reading activities (Solos): At the end of every lesson, students complete an independent reading activity (“Solo”) with reading questions that are scored to measure comprehension (grades 6–8).
Summative assessments:
- Skills end-of-unit assessments (grades K–2)
- Knowledge end-of-domain assessments (grades K–2)
- End-of-unit assessments (grades 3–5)
- Unit essays: A culminating end-of-unit set of lessons that guide students through crafting an essay with a rubric to score mastery of writing skills (grades 6–8)
- Unit Reading Assessments: Auto-scored responses and two constructed response items evaluate comprehension, content understanding, and reading skills using the passages students read during the unit (grades 6–8)
Performance Assessments
Student Performance Assessments are multi-day assessments administered in Grades K–5 at the beginning, middle, and end of year to help teachers gauge student mastery of grade-level Core content. These assessments provide critical data to help teachers set targeted instructional goals and monitor individual and class-wide progress towards core objectives.
Progress monitoring
Amplify’s mCLASS® DIBELS® 8th Edition and mCLASS Lectura provide formal progress monitoring in the discrete skills that are indicative of reading growth and predictive of overall success to provide the most instructionally meaningful information to teachers.
Informal progress monitoring tools can be found within the Intervention Toolkit, including materials for teachers to record, track, and evaluate student progress.
Diagnostic assessment
Interventions within Amplify’s literacy programs are informed by a skill diagnostic assessment that provides detailed data on foundational literacy skill deficits. The Amplify Skill Diagnostic Assessment and Amplify Spanish Skill Diagnostic assessment serve as critical tools in this process, administered specifically to students identified as at risk for reading difficulty through universal screening assessments—particularly those demonstrating mCLASS DIBELS 8th Edition or mCLASS Lectura composite scores in the Well Below or Below Benchmark ranges. These diagnostic assessments provide teachers with the precise skills to begin intervention and remediation.
Category 4: Universal Access
Amplify CKLA California and Amplify ELA California were built on the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and reviewed by CAST, a nonprofit education research and development organization. The program is developed using the Universal Design for Learning framework to proactively ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.
Universal Design for Learning
The programs incorporate opportunities for engagement, representation, action, and expression based on the guidelines of Universal Design for Learning.
- Multiple Means of Engagement: The programs incorporate interesting and motivating ways for students to interact with information and content. In Amplify CKLA California, the Universal Access section in the introduction of each lesson provides specific lesson-level options based on the needs of individual classrooms and students. Scaffolding for students with various levels of need is incorporated into the design of each lesson.
- Multiple Means of Representation: The programs provide multiple means of presenting content to maximize student understanding. This includes digital component files that allow for a range of presentations of images and text to support learning. Amplify provides access to universal supports such as point-of-use audio for all core texts, embedded definitions for critical vocabulary, and glossaries in multiple languages. Amplify CKLA California includes clarification on language found throughout the program, with sidebars that include support on transition words and syntax, and illustrations to help students understand the concepts they are learning.
- Multiple Means of Action and Expression: The programs include a range of methods for all students, including English learners, to navigate and demonstrate learning. This includes physical actions, a range of methods for response, appropriate tools for composition, and varied scaffolding. In Amplify ELA California, lessons provide multiple ways for students to interact with text, allowing their brains to process the language through distinct pathways. Activities harness multiple learning modes, using media tools, digital apps, and a variety of visual and physical experiences to strategically support and enhance student learning.
- Accessibility: Universal access features include visual aids, enlarged materials, physical objects, and multiple learning modalities through activities like Push & Say and Wiggle Cards. The Universal Access section in the introduction of each lesson provides specific lesson-level options based on the needs of individual classrooms and students.
Embedded differentiation
Amplify CKLA California and Amplify ELA California provide built-in differentiation strategies in every lesson for all students.
- Pre-teaching supports include mini-lessons on:
- Core vocabulary building
- Core connections
- Essential background information building
- What Have We Already Learned?/What Do We Already Know?
- Differentiated Support for Core Instruction tables, located in the overview of each K–2 Skills Teacher Guide, provide a list of specific opportunities for reteaching and additional support in each lesson based on skill.
- Support and Challenge Sidebars in lesson margins offer educators immediate guidance in implementing point-of-use differentiation techniques.
- Flexible Grouping within lessons provides opportunities for teachers to facilitate small groups, partners, or individualized support based on students’ needs. In the Skills Strand, teachers receive specific guidance for differentiated small-group instruction, with targeted support and activities outlined for both Group 1 (students needing additional support) and Group 2 (on-level students) based on data.
- Amplify ELA California provides point-of-use supports embedded within key core lesson activities with six levels of differentiation. The goal of these supports is to fully enable access to grade-level content for all students, including students with disabilities, English learners, and students ready for an additional level of challenge.
- The Universal Access section of Advance Preparation in each lesson includes varied strategies to ensure all students can access and engage in each lesson.
- Frequent use of graphic organizers and visual supports in lessons provide opportunities for differentiation based on need. The program also includes a variety of technological supports, such as eReaders with audio.
- Extension opportunities are suggested throughout lessons, often embedded in writing tasks, which include prompts to use more complex and descriptive vocabulary, figurative language, multi-clause and complex sentences, and informational text characteristics.
Assessment-driven MTSS resources
- The K–8 Intervention Toolkit is available online and provides easy-to-use resources that assist teachers in filling gaps in students’ reading skills, with activities to support print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, and other key skills
- Fluency Packets (Grades 2–5)
- Foundational Skills Intervention Program for Grades 3–8 support students who would benefit from direct and explicit intervention instruction in the full continuum of foundational skills in the upper grades
- Flexible Instructional Time including:
- Pausing Points built into the curriculum that provide teachers with dedicated time to address specific student needs through targeted reteaching, remediation, practice, and extension activities
- Pausing Point activities designed to support English learners’ competence and confidence through differentiated whole-group, small-group, or individual instruction
- Boost Reading is a K–5 student-led digital intervention program. Boost Reading follows Amplify CKLA California’s scope and sequence to reinforce the same foundational skills taught in core instruction. It integrates easily into daily routines, while the robust data provided by mCLASS® DIBELS® 8th Edition offers a detailed view of how students progress across all instructional tiers.
Category 5: Instructional Planning and Teacher Support
Amplify CKLA California and Amplify ELA California teachers are empowered to deliver effective instruction with various print and digital resources. The program provides comprehensive planning and support materials designed to help teachers prepare for and execute lessons effectively and fulfill the requirements of Category 5.
Implementation supports across K–8
Planning and preparation resources
- Unit Overviews that provide important background and context for the texts students will read, including highlighted elements within the text and guidance for how students will work with those elements
- Sub-unit Overviews (Grades 6–8) that provide an overview of Lesson Objectives and reading and writing assignments, as well as a list of any projections, multimedia, or digital apps that can be projected from the teacher’s included digital license
- Lesson-by-lesson preparation checklists (Grades 6–8) accompanying each Sub-unit Overview
- Lesson Briefs for each individual lesson providing important background and context
- Content knowledge materials regarding topics that students will examine
Point-of-use instructional guidance
- Teacher Editions that feature insets of the same text and activity instructions as the corresponding Student Edition, wrapping teacher instruction around these materials
- Activity guidance at point of use
- Lesson standards clearly called out
- Discussion suggestions embedded in lessons
- Differentiation tips at point of use
- Detailed Instructional Guides in each activity that include sequencing and grouping suggestions, tips for facilitating discussion, possible student responses and exemplars
- Student Supports in all core lessons provide teachers with targeted supports in daily core instruction, addressing which might serve the student best in the moment—support, strengthen, stretch—with additional call-outs for newcomers
Multimedia and digital support
- Teacher tip videos provide modeling and guidance for implementing key foundational skills routines within the program
- Digital platform access where teachers can access printable PDFs of differentiated support materials for English learners and readers struggling with text, including translated Unit Background and Context Documents and Text Previews
- Teacher Dashboard and reporting tools (Grade 6–8) that provide real-time visibility into student progress and work for immediate instructional response
Caregiver supports
Communication and overview resources
- Caregiver Hub available in English and Spanish that provides an overview of the curriculum
- Caregiver Letters for each K–2 Knowledge Domain and unit in Grades 3–5 that provide an overview of the content, the skills students learn, as well as practical methods that continue the learning and knowledge building at home
- Unit-specific Caregiver Letters (Grades 6–8) that provide detailed information regarding what students will read and learn in each unit, including conversation starters that allow caregivers to ask questions and discuss specific aspects of a unit with their student
- Welcome letters that explain the assessment and placement process while inviting parent involvement and offering support
- Editable Home-School Communication letters available in English and Spanish
- Editable Progress Reports for teachers to update parents and guardians on what their child is learning
Content and learning support materials
- Unit Background and Context documents that provide an introduction and overview to the unit’s topic and themes, available in English and Spanish
- Text Previews that provide a brief introduction to formative, independent reading assignments (called Solos in Grades 6–8), available in English and Spanish
- Unit Overview and Support documents (Grades 6–8) designed for caregivers that provide information about important questions, assignments, and key aspects of the unit texts, available in English and Spanish
- Conversation starters included in Knowledge Strand Caregiver Letters to discuss domain topics at home
Home practice and extension activities
- Take-Home pages in the Skills Strand that include copies of decodable passages, enabling students to share their reading progress with families and continue practicing their skills outside of school
- Take-Home Letters in the Skills Strand that provide specific guidance for parents to support skills practice at home, such as sound-sorting activities, with detailed instructions and materials for home practice activities
- Take-Home pages in the Knowledge Strand that provide suggested activities families can do together to reinforce and extend learning beyond the classroom
- Games and activities on Take-Home Pages that extend classroom instruction, including all the materials and instruction necessary to help families assist students in a fun and engaging way
- Digital access to decodable texts through the Amplify Caregiver Hub, allowing students to practice their reading skills both in class and at home
- Weekly spelling lists and directions to decoding activities that can be practiced at home
Why fluency matters in K–5 math education

If you’re fluent in Farsi, let’s say, you don’t search for every word or stop to translate every sentence in your head. You understand, process, and respond automatically, in real time.
Math fluency works the same way. This kind of fluency is something you can use naturally to understand what’s presented and respond to it meaningfully.
In K–5 math, fluency allows students to move beyond getting through the problem toward real mathematical thinking. Without it, even confident students can get stuck. With it, students gain access to deeper understanding, flexibility, and confidence.
What is math fluency?
Fluency in math is sometimes misunderstood as speed or memorization—but research and classroom experience tell a fuller story.
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics defines procedural fluency as the ability to: “…apply procedures efficiently, flexibly, and accurately; to transfer procedures to different problems and contexts; to build or modify procedures from other procedures; and to recognize when one strategy or procedure is more appropriate to apply than another.”
In other words, the skills often referred to as computational fluency and math fact fluency tell only part of the story. Full mathematical fluency means knowing how and why strategies work, and being able to choose among them.
Memorization does have a role in math learning, but it alone does not lead to fluency. A student who has memorized facts but doesn’t understand relationships between numbers may still struggle when problems change slightly or require reasoning.
By contrast, a fluent student can adapt. They can explain their thinking, check whether an answer makes sense, and shift strategies when needed.
This is why fluency acts as a bridge between conceptual understanding and procedural application. It connects what students know to what they can do, and helps them do it with confidence.
Why procedural fluency matters in K–5 math
In the elementary grades, students are building the foundational math skills they’ll rely on for years to come. When procedural fluency is weak, students can feel overwhelmed by basic calculations, leaving little mental energy for problem-solving or new concepts.
Students without strong procedural fluency often feel stuck. For them, math can start to feel like an endless series of obstacles rather than a meaningful, engaging exploration—and that experience does not set anyone up to feel like a math person.
Fluency is what frees students up to focus on the heart of a problem. When they’re not bogged down by calculations, they’re able to reason, explore patterns, and tackle more complex tasks. Fluency opens doors—to higher-level math, to confidence, and to a more positive math identity.
In their paper, “Eight Unproductive Practices in Developing Fact Fluency,” Gina King and Jennifer Bay-Williams write: “Being fluent contributes to a productive disposition about mathematics, opens doors to a range of mathematics topics, and arms students with a skillset applicable to whatever they wish to pursue.”
What teaching math fluency looks like in the classroom
Effective K–5 math instruction treats fluency as something that develops over time, through meaningful practice, discussion, and reflection. Students need opportunities to explore number relationships, explain their thinking, and revisit strategies in different contexts.
In classrooms where math fluency is developing, instruction consistently supports flexible thinking, reflection, and revisiting ideas over time. You might see and hear the following:
- Revisiting strategies across problems. Students are encouraged to solve the same problem in more than one way and to compare approaches. Classroom discussions focus on how strategies work and when one might be more efficient than another, helping students build strategic thinking and confidence.
- Frequent, well-spaced opportunities for practice. Key facts and strategies reappear over time rather than being practiced once and set aside. This spacing helps students retain learning and apply it more accurately and efficiently when they encounter familiar ideas in new contexts.
- Regular routines that emphasize reasoning. Short, consistent routines invite students to mentally compute, explain their thinking, and listen to others’ ideas. The focus is on understanding number relationships and reasoning through solutions rather than relying on memorized steps.
- Thoughtful use of visual representations. Tools such as number lines, arrays, and other models help students see how numbers and operations relate. These representations support flexible thinking and make procedures more meaningful and accessible.
Across these experiences, fluency is something you can hear as well as see. Students explain their reasoning, reference strategies they’ve used before, and check whether their answers make sense, building accuracy, efficiency, and flexibility over time.
Math fluency helps students open their minds to the richness of math, and to their own power as math learners.
Welcome, Utah Reviewers to Amplify Desmos Math!
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.
Scroll to learn more about the program and explore sample materials.
About the program
We believe in math that motivates. Our structured approach to problem-based learning builds on students’ curiosity to develop lasting grade-level understandings for all students.
The program thoughtfully combines conceptual understanding, fluency, and application, motivating students with interesting problems they are eager to solve. Teachers can spend more time where it’s most impactful: creating a collaborative classroom of learners.
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.

Screening and progress monitoring
mCLASS® Assessments, along with daily formative checks, measure not only what students know, but also 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 pair problems students are eager to solve with clear instructional moves for teachers. Unit- and lesson-level core assessments give teachers data at their fingertips to guide and differentiate instruction.

Integrated personal 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, Fluency Practice, and Math Adventures provide targeted intervention on a specific concept or skill connected to the daily lesson. Extensions are also available to stretch students’ understanding.
Reviewer resources
The links below contain resources to help you with your review:
- Utah Core State Standards Alignment for Amplify Desmos Math Grades K–5
- Utah Core State Standards Alignment for Amplify Desmos Math Grades 6–8
- Utah Mathematics Rubric
- Amplify Technology Requirements
- Amplify Desmos Math Program Guide for Grades K–5
- Amplify Desmos Math Program Guide for Grades 6–8
- Amplify Desmos Math Components Guide Grades K–5
- Amplify Desmos Math Components Guide Grades 6–8

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Grades K–5 sample materials
Click the links in the sections below to explore sample materials from each grade. Please note the grade level teacher editions and student editions below may take a few minutes to load due to the size of the file. You can access the same materials on the digital platform within the Grade Level Overviews and within each lesson under the Paper Resources section.
Here you will find the Scope and Sequence for Grades K–5.
You can also watch a product expert walk through a lesson and the available program components.

Kindergarten
Grade 1
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 6–8 sample materials
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Here you will find the Scope and Sequence for Grades 6–8.
You can also watch a product expert walk through a lesson and the available program components.

Grade 6
Grade 7
Welcome, Flowing Wells, to Amplify Desmos Math!
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.
Keep reading to learn more about the program and explore sample materials.

About the program
Our structured approach to problem-based learning builds on students’ curiosity to develop lasting grade-level understandings for all students. The program thoughtfully combines conceptual understanding, fluency, and application, motivating students with interesting problems they are eager to solve. Teachers can spend more time where it’s most impactful: creating a collaborative classroom of learners.


Structured approach to problem-based learning
- Easy-to-follow instructional guidance
- Robust assessments and reports

Math that motivates
- Powerful teacher-facilitation supports and tools
- Students talking and building from each other’s ideas
- Every lesson has compatible print and digital materials for a collaborative classroom

Student thinking is made evident
- Curiosity-driven lessons that motivate students with interesting problems they are eager to solve
- Explicit guidance for teachers on what to look for and how to respond
- Technology that provides Responsive Feedback and is designed to reveal mathematical thinking

Scope and sequence
Click the link below to view the program scope and sequence.
Preview lessons
Check out the links below to explore our interactive digital lessons. Download a navigation guide for tips on navigating the print and digital program components.

Looking for help?
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Tommy Gearhart, Account Executive
tgearhart@amplify.com
(505) 206-7661

Welcome to Amplify Desmos Math!
Your Amplify Desmos Math Experience Kit includes teacher and student materials for one sub-unit of instruction to try in your classroom. Click the orange button below to access the digital lessons for your grade.

About the program
Our structured approach to problem-based learning systematically builds on students’ curiosity to develop lasting grade-level understanding.
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.


Structured approach to problem-based learning
- Differentiation and personalized practice
- Easy-to-follow instructional guidance
- Robust assessments and reports
- Spanish student materials

Math that motivates
- Powerful teacher-facilitation supports and tools
- Students talking and building from each other’s ideas
- Every lesson has fully compatible print and digital materials for a collaborative classroom

Student thinking is made evident
- Curiosity-driven lessons that motivate students with interesting problems they are eager to solve
- Explicit guidance for teachers on what to look for and how to respond
- Technology that provides Responsive Feedback and is designed to reveal mathematical thinking
Experience Kit digital lessons
Use the grade-specific links below to explore our interactive digital lessons. Learn more about assigning a lesson to your class using a single-session code.
In addition to the sample lessons below, you can view the Experience Kit brochure, which includes helpful print and digital navigation tips.


Grade 3, Unit 6: Measuring Length, Time, Liquid Volume, and Weight

Grade 4, Unit 6: Multiplying and Dividing Multi-Digit Numbers
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Welcome Reviewers, to Amplify Desmos Math!
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.
Scroll to learn more about the program and explore sample materials.
About the program
We believe in math that motivates. Our structured approach to problem-based learning builds on students’ curiosity to develop lasting grade-level understandings for all students.
The program thoughtfully combines conceptual understanding, fluency, and application, motivating students with interesting problems they are eager to solve. Teachers can spend more time where it’s most impactful: creating a collaborative classroom of learners.
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.

Screening and progress monitoring
mCLASS® Assessments, along with daily formative checks, measure not only what students know, but also 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.

Differentiation and intervention
Integrated resources like Mini-Lessons, Fluency Practice, and Math Adventures provide targeted intervention on a specific concept or skill connected to daily instruction. Extensions are also available to stretch students’ understanding.
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.

An approach that supports teachers
Clear, step-by-step instructional moves help teachers plan and teach student-centered lessons that use student thinking to differentiate instruction and guide to grade-level understanding. They include:
- Guidance on what to listen for and how to respond.
- Clear learning objectives to keep learning on track for each activity and lesson.
- Daily reinforcement activities to provide direct instruction when needed.
A structured approach to problem-based learning
Problem-based learning asks students to make sense of and think strategically about mathematically interesting problems. This approach allows students’ ideas to take
center stage, so they are active and engaged in their learning process. Teachers are able to hear and respond to student thinking in real time, guiding and differentiating instruction right in the moment.
Moving from “I do, We do, You do” to “You do, We do, I do”
Lessons begin by activating student’s prior knowledge and curiosity, inviting them to explore the math, collaborate, and refine their thinking. By focusing on developing student thinking first, teachers can better connect ideas, guide learning, and synthesize learning objectives.
Lessons that are rigorous and delightful
Every lesson in Amplify Desmos Math is designed to put students at the center of their learning. Utilizing research-based best practices, students engage in meaningful work based on rich problems and real-world experiences.

Warm-Up
Lessons begin by inviting every student to contribute to the mathematical discussion. Instructional routines are often used to build fluency, set the context, activate prior knowledge, or highlight a strategy that may be helpful in the lesson.
Rich learning activities
Math knowledge is built through experiences and meaningful interactions. Students notice, wonder, explore, calculate, predict, measure, explain their thinking, use math to settle disputes, create challenges for their classmates, and more. Teachers serve as a guide, using a Launch, Monitor, Connect framework:
- Launch: Teachers offer a short introduction to the problem or challenge
- Monitor: As students work individually, in pairs, or in groups, teachers ask questions and provide support to move student thinking closer to the intended math goal.
- Connect: Teachers connect student ideas to the Key Takeaway of the activity to help students synthesize and solidify the big ideas.
Synthesis
Teachers ensure that students end the lesson with accurate and enduring understandings of the math goal through synthesis of student ideas, explicit instruction, and reflection.
A short Show What You Know assessment allows students to show what they know about the learning goals of the lesson and reveal what they are still learning.
Differentiation and practice
Lasting understanding requires reinforcement. Every lesson offers Lesson Practice instructional recommendations to Support, Strengthen, and Stretch learning.

Print for every lesson with engaging digital experiences
Whether in print or digital form, engaging interactions enable students and teachers to openly exchange ideas. Each lesson includes student print materials, interactive teacher Presentation Screens, and digital resources for practice and differentiation. Some lessons also use manipulatives or provide options for students to use devices individually or in pairs. Device recommendations for student use are age-appropriate, with more frequent usage in middle and high school.
Demo access
Please login to the digital platform to experience our full program as part of your review. In order to access the digital platform, you’ll need to log into using your unique login credentials below.
- Click the orange button below to access the platform.
- Click “Log in with Amplify.”
- Enter the username and password:
- Username:
- Password:
- View the video for helpful platform navigation tips.
Assessments
By starting with what students already know, Amplify Desmos Math helps build a strong foundation for success to guide and support future learning. Teachers are empowered to transform every classroom into an engaged math community that invites, values, and develops student thinking. With explicit guidance on what to look for and how to respond, teachers can effectively support students as they develop their understanding.

Program assessments
A variety of performance data in Amplify Desmos Math provides evidence of student learning while helping students bolster their skills and understanding.
Unit-Level Assessments
Our embedded unit assessments offer key insights into students’ conceptual understanding of math. These assessments provide regular, actionable information about how students are thinking about and processing math, with both auto-scoring and in-depth rubrics that help teachers anticipate and respond to students’ learning needs.
Lesson-Level Assessments
Amplify Desmos Math lessons are centered around sense-making and in-the-moment feedback. Daily moments of assessment provide valuable evidence of learning for both the teacher and student.
Data and reporting
Amplify Desmos Math provides teachers and administrators with unified reporting and insights so that educators have visibility into what students know about grade-level math—and can plan instruction accordingly for the whole class, small groups, and individual students.

Assessment reports
Reporting functionality integrates unit assessments, lesson assessments, personalized learning, Benchmark assessments, and Progress Monitoring for a comprehensive look at student learning.
Our reports show proficiency and growth by domain, cluster, standard, and priority concept using performance data from unit assessments. Then our reports highlight areas of potential student need to allow teachers to modify their instruction and target differentiated support.
At-a-glance views of unit-level assessment results inform your instructional planning, and you can also drill down to item-level analysis.
Standards reports
Our standards report allows you to monitor proficiency at the class and individual student levels. Proficiency and growth are shown by domain, cluster, standard, and priority concepts. Areas of potential student need are highlighted to allow teachers to modify their instruction and target differentiated support.
Administrator reports
Amplify Desmos Math provides a complete picture of student, class, and district performance, allowing administrators to implement instructional and intervention plans.
- Track student, class, and district performance with usage, completion, and assessment data.
- Accurately group students and classes with the Benchmark and Progress Monitoring data of mCLASS Assessments and allow teachers to reliably implement and track the progress of Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention.
- Provide one data-driven solution that educators can rely on for high-quality math instruction.
Differentiation and intervention
Amplify Desmos Math views differentiation as an ongoing process where teachers are both reactive and proactive to student needs, ensuring that all students have clear pathways to proficiency. Through rich data and teacher support, Amplify Desmos Math uses flexible categories of intervention and enrichment that adjust daily according to student thinking.
In-the-moment differentiation supports are available for every lesson, both digitally and in the print Teacher Edition.


In-lesson differentiation
Within every lesson activity, teachers can use the suggestions in the Differentiation Teacher Moves table to provide in-the-moment instructional support while students are engaged in the work of the lesson. This table can help teachers anticipate the ways students may approach the activity, and provides prompts that they can use during the lesson to Support, Strengthen, and Stretch individual students in their thinking. Teachers are provided with clear student actions and understanding to look for, each matched with immediately usable suggestions for how to respond to the student thinking illustrated in each row of the table. In addition to using these suggestions in the moment as teachers monitor student work, teachers can review the Differentiation table in advance to help them anticipate how students are likely to approach the activity.
Differentiation: Beyond the Lesson
Teachers are provided with recommendations for resources to use with each group of students needing support, strengthening, and stretching after each lesson. Support, Strengthen, and Stretch resources include:
- Mini-Lessons: 15-minute, small-group direct instruction lessons targeted to a specific concept or skill
- Item Banks: Space for teachers to create practice and assessments by using filters and searching for standards, summative-style items, and more
- Fluency Practice: Adaptive, personalized practice built out for basic operations and more
- Centers (K–5): Lesson-embedded routines and practice for students that are vertically aligned across grade levels
- Extensions: Lesson-embedded Teacher Moves including possible stretch questions and activities for students
- Lesson Practice: Additional practice problems support every lesson
- Math Adventures: Strategy-based math games where students engage with math concepts and practice skills in a fun digital environment


Multilingual/English Learner supports
Supports for multilingual/English learners (ML/ELs) are called out at intentiSupports for multilingual/English learners (ML/ELs) are called out at intentional points within each lesson. These suggested supports are specific, targeted actions that are beneficial for ML/ELs. They often describe a modification to increase access to the task or provide support with contextual or mathematical language development that can often be helpful to all learners. ML/EL supports may also be attached to Math Language Routines.onal points within each lesson. These suggested supports are specific, targeted actions that are beneficial for ML/ELs. They often describe a modification to increase access to the task or provide support with contextual or mathematical language development that can often be helpful to all learners. ML/EL supports may also be attached to Math Language Routines.
Math Language Development
Every lesson in Amplify Desmos Math includes opportunities for all students to develop mathematical language as they experience the content. Amplify Desmos Math purposefully progresses language development from lesson to lesson and across units by supporting students in making their arguments and explanations stronger, clearer, and more precise. This systematic approach to the development of math language can be broken down into the following four categories of support:
- Vocabulary: Units and lessons start by surfacing students’ language for new concepts, then building connections between their language and the new vocabulary for that unit.
- Language goals: Language goals attend to the mathematics students are learning, and are written through the lens of one or more of four language modalities: reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
- Math Language Routines: Math Language Routines are used within lessons to highlight student-developed language and ideas, cultivate conversation, support mathematical sense-making, and promote meta-cognition.
- Multilingual/English learner supports: Supports for multilingual/English learners (ML/ELs) are called out at intentional points within each lesson.


K-5 sample materials
Click the links in the drop-down sections below to explore sample materials from each grade. For a full program review, please login to the digital platform or request physical samples.
For helpful navigation tips and more program information, download the Amplify Desmos Math Program Guide.
You can also watch a product expert walk through a lesson and the available program components.
Teacher Edition
Planning and instructional guidance is visual, organized, and easy-to-follow. To help you preview the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 2, Sub-Unit 2: Counting and Comparing Images.

Student Edition
Motivate students with mathematics that is both rigorous and delightful. To help you preview the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 2, Sub-Unit 2: Counting and Comparing Images.
Ancillary sampler
Included in the ancillary sampler are examples from the program Assessment Resources, Intervention and Extension Resources, Centers Resources, Additional Practice, and Math Language Development Resources.
Featured digital lesson: Forest Friends
In this lesson, students apply their understanding of how to compare groups of images as they determine which group has more or fewer and then compare their strategies by guiding a bear through a path that has more mushrooms than the other.
Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide
Planning and instructional guidance is visual, organized, and easy-to-follow. To help you preview the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 1, Sub-Unit 1: Adding and Subtracting Within 10.
Student Edition
Motivate students with mathematics that is both rigorous and delightful. To help you preview the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 1, Sub-Unit 1: Adding and Subtracting Within 10.
Ancillary sampler
Included in the ancillary sampler are examples from the program Assessment Resources, Intervention and Extension Resources, Centers Resources, Additional Practice, and Math Language Development Resources.
Featured digital lesson: Leaping Lily Pads!
In this lesson, students find differences when subtracting 1 and 2 from the same number by helping a frog reach a lily pad where it can eat a bug.
Teacher Edition
Planning and instructional guidance is visual, organized, and easy-to-follow. To help you review the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 1, Sub-Unit 1: Adding and Subtracting.
Student Edition
Motivate students with mathematics that is both rigorous and delightful. To help you preview the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 1, Sub-Unit 1: Adding and Subtracting.
Ancillary sampler
Included in the ancillary sampler are examples from the program Assessment Resources, Intervention and Extension Resources, Centers Resources, Additional Practice, and Math Language Development Resources.
Featured digital lesson: Ways to Make 10
Students continue to develop fluency by finding the number that makes 10 by helping a millipede reach its favorite food – a clump of leaves!
Teacher Edition
Planning and instructional guidance is visual, organized, and easy-to-follow. To help you review the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 1, Sub-Unit 3: Data on Scaled Graphs.
Student Edition
Motivate students with mathematics that is both rigorous and delightful. To help you preview the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 1, Sub-Unit 3: Data on Scaled Graphs.
Ancillary sampler
Included in the ancillary sampler are examples from the program Assessment Resources, Intervention and Extension Resources, Centers Resources, Additional Practice, and Math Language Development Resources.
Featured digital lesson: Puppy Pile
Students compare data represented on bar graphs with different scales by using animal stickers to create scaled bar graphs.
Teacher Edition
Planning and instructional guidance is visual, organized, and easy-to-follow. To help you review the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 1, Sub-Unit 2: Using Factors and Multiples.
Student Edition
Motivate students with mathematics that is both rigorous and delightful. To help you preview the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 1, Sub-Unit 2: Using Factors and Multiples.
Ancillary sampler
Included in the ancillary sampler are examples from the program Assessment Resources, Intervention and Extension Resources, Centers Resources, Additional Practice, and Math Language Development Resources.

Featured digital lesson: Hamster Homes
Students choose tube lengths to connect to platform heights for hamster homes, identifying possible heights using what they know about multiples.
Teacher Edition
Planning and instructional guidance is visual, organized, and easy-to-follow. To help you review the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 1, Sub-Unit 3: Volume of Solid Figures.
Student Edition
Motivate students with mathematics that is both rigorous and delightful. To help you preview the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 1, Sub-Unit 3: Volume of Solid Figures.
Ancillary sampler
Included in the ancillary sampler are examples from the program Assessment Resources, Intervention and Extension Resources, Centers Resources, Additional Practice, and Math Language Development Resources.
Featured digital lesson: Figures Made of Prisms
Students decompose a figure into rectangular prisms and determine the volume of the figure by adding the volumes of the individual prisms.
6-A1 sample materials
Click the links in the drop-down sections below to explore sample materials from each grade. For a full program review, please login to the digital platform or request physical samples.
For helpful navigation tips and more program information, download the Amplify Desmos Math Program Guide.
You can also watch a product expert walk through a lesson and the available program components.

Teacher Edition
Planning and instructional guidance is visual, organized, and easy-to-follow. To help you preview the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 6, Sub-Unit 1: Solving Equations.
Student Edition
Motivate students with mathematics that is both rigorous and delightful. To help you preview the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 6, Sub-Unit 1: Solving Equations.
Ancillary sampler
Included in the ancillary sampler are examples from the program Assessment Resources, Intervention and Extension Resources, Additional Practice, and Math Language Development Resources.
Featured digital lesson: Weight for It
Students use equations and tape diagrams to represent seesaw situations and to determine unknown animal weights, helping them make connections between diagrams that represent equations of the form `x+p=q` or `px=q`.
Teacher Edition
Planning and instructional guidance is visual, organized, and easy-to-follow. To help you preview the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 6, Sub-Unit 3: Inequalities.
Student Edition
Motivate students with mathematics that is both rigorous and delightful. To help you preview the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 6, Sub-Unit 3: Inequalities.
Ancillary sampler
Included in the ancillary sampler are examples from the program Assessment Resources, Intervention and Extension Resources, Additional Practice, and Math Language Development Resources.
Featured digital lesson: Shira the Sheep
Students solve inequalities with positive and negative coefficients to solve a variety of challenges featuring a fictional sheep who eats grass according to an inequality.
Teacher Edition
Planning and instructional guidance is visual, organized, and easy-to-follow. To help you preview the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 6, Sub-Unit 2: Analyzing Numerical Data.
Student Edition
Motivate students with mathematics that is both rigorous and delightful. To help you preview the program, we have included samples from a complete sub-unit on this site: Unit 6, Sub-Unit 2: Analyzing Numerical Data.
Ancillary sampler
Included in the ancillary sampler are examples from the program Assessment Resources, Intervention and Extension Resources, Additional Practice, and Math Language Development Resources.
Featured digital lesson: Robots
Students connect points on a scatter plot with individuals in a population and rows of data in a table. The analysis of scatter plots continues with data about the eye distances and heights of robots.
Teacher Edition
Planning and instructional guidance is visual, organized, and easy-to-follow. To help you preview the program, we have included samples from two complete sub-units on this site: Unit 2, Sub-Units 1–2: One-Variable Equations and Multi-Variable Equations.
Student Edition
Motivate students with mathematics that is both rigorous and delightful. To help you preview the program, we have included samples from two complete sub-units on this site: Unit 2, Sub-Units 1–2: One-Variable Equations and Multi-Variable Equations.
Ancillary sampler
Included in the ancillary sampler are examples from the program Assessment Resources, Intervention and Extension Resources, Additional Practice, and Math Language Development Resources.
Featured digital lesson: Shelley the Snail
Students represent the solutions of a situation using a table, a graph, and multiple forms of an equation to identify multiple combinations of blocks that can help Shelley the Snail cross a gap.
How problem-based learning can transform the math classroom

With test scores and student engagement on the decline, it’s clear that traditional teaching methods aren’t meeting the needs of all of today’s math learners.
One solution that’s gaining momentum is problem-based learning. By focusing on real-world problems and structured approaches, this approach develops critical thinking, reasoning, and application—skills that are essential for math success.
But making this shift isn’t easy. For math teachers and educators, it requires careful planning, a clear strategy, and community commitment.
That’s why we’re here to help.
The decline in test scores and engagement
The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results show a sharp decline in math proficiency across grade levels. Only 26% of eighth graders performed at or above the NAEP Proficient level in 2022. These results represent the largest score declines in NAEP mathematics at grades 4 and 8 since initial assessments in 1990. The pandemic didn’t help, but it’s not the only factor.
This downward trend is compounded by a sense of disengagement. According to YouthTruth’s report Making Sense of Learning Math: Insights from the Student Experience, only half of students feel that what they’re learning in math connects to the real world. Recent survey data also shows that less than half of U.S. students feel that they “often” or “always” work on interesting problems in math class.
When math feels irrelevant or intimidating, students disengage—and the learning gaps that follow can be difficult to close.
An opportunity to grow
But the data also includes opportunities. According to NAEP research, more than 70% of students report that they enjoy activities that challenge their thinking and thinking about problems in new ways.
Problem-based learning helps give those students what they want.
And in a world that relies increasingly on data, analysis, and innovation, students need to learn not just how to follow steps and apply formulas, but how to think mathematically. In other words, problem-solving skills need to be part of student learning. This is particularly important in elementary and middle school math, where foundational concepts are built—and where students have the chance to forget their identities as “math people.”
That’s why working to infuse problem-based math learning into your district’s instruction can help reverse negative math and engagement trends.
What does problem-based learning in math look like?
Let’s go back and define this approach more fully. Research shows that math instruction is most effective when it encourages students—individually or grouped with peers—to grapple actively with math problems. When instruction gives students the opportunity and freedom to solve problems, rather than dictating solutions and then having them practice, students are more motivated.
For example, instead of memorizing the formula for calculating area and then practicing it in a series of disconnected problems, students might tackle a problem-solving challenge like:
How much paint is needed to cover our classroom walls?” Or they might work on a broader question such as: “How can we design a park, taking into account constraints like space, cost, and accessibility?
At its core, problem-based learning values mathematical thinking and reasoning. Rather than focusing on procedures and memorization, problem-based learning encourages students to:
- Explore open-ended problems.
- Ask questions and make connections.
- Develop strategies to solve problems collaboratively.
- Build curiosity and perseverance.
- Reflect on their reasoning and process.
In the problem-based learning classroom, students are positioned as active participants in their math experiences, building a deeper understanding of concepts as they work through challenges. This is particularly critical for ensuring students don’t just learn math, but understand why it works and how to apply it. These approaches can transform math classrooms into spaces where students build both foundational and real-world math skills—and a healthy dose of math confidence, too.
Critical factors in making the shift
Integrating problem-based learning into traditional math teaching can feel like (and is!) a big change—in lesson-planning, mindset, and more.
To make it work for administrators, teachers, and students alike, schools do best when they focus on a few critical factors. These include:
- Clear vision: Understand (and communicate) why the shift matters and what it looks like in action.
- Leadership buy-in: Gain commitment from school leaders and administrators.
- Teacher support: Offer professional development, resources, and ongoing guidance specific to math instruction.
- Structured approaches: Establish a well-defined plan for implementing problem-based learning in math classrooms effectively.
What problem-based learning can look like in the classroom
While problem-based learning offers proven benefits, it can be difficult to integrate into the classroom without a clear structure. Teachers need tools and strategies to guide students through the process and ensure that learning goals are met.
A structured approach to problem-based learning in math should include:
- Defining the problem: Present a clear, engaging math challenge connected to real-world scenarios.
- Student inquiry: Encourage exploration, discussion, and different solution paths.
- Collaboration: Support teamwork to share ideas and reasoning.
- Reflection: Allow students to evaluate their process, solutions, and learning.
This structured approach not only improves students’ conceptual understanding, but also aligns with Amplify’s research findings, which show that students who engage in active learning outperform their peers in more traditional settings.
By embracing problem-based learning in math classrooms, educators can:
- Boost student engagement and confidence.
- Improve student problem-solving and mathematical reasoning skills.
- Help reverse declines in math achievement over time.
- Empower students to see the value and relevance of math in academics and in their lives.
Ready to learn more?
If you’re ready to explore how your school can make the shift to problem-based learning in math, our new change management ebook is the perfect place to start. It offers practical guidance, real-world examples, and a deeper look at the strategies highlighted above.
Download the ebook now to discover actionable insights and strategies to help make problem-based learning come alive in your math classrooms.
Artificial intelligence at Amplify
Amplify is committed to using artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities transparently, safely, responsibly, and ethically to deliver tools and resources that continue to fulfill our purpose. We are also committed to aiding students, teachers, and our staff with the skills and understanding required to use AI technology effectively and fairly.
Thoughtful and intentional integration of AI technology supports Amplify’s purpose by extending teachers’ reach, saving them time, enhancing their understanding of each student, and providing new ways to engage students in powerful and rigorous learning experiences.
At the core of our work is our belief that these technologies, if used wisely, can support teachers in creating the kind of classroom experiences every student deserves—collaborative, interesting, and personalized.
Amplify’s AI principles
Governance and risk management: Amplify is developing and maintaining a governance and risk-management program aligned to EDSAFE AI Alliance’s S.A.F.E. Benchmarks Framework and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, which includes internal policies and procedures to support compliance and safe and responsible use of AI. Amplify’s program guides the design, development, deployment, and overall implementation of AI in Amplify’s products and the tools used in Amplify’s operations. The governance program applies both to Amplify-developed capabilities and third-party development and integrations.
Amplify aligns to EDSAFE AI Alliance’s S.A.F.E. Benchmarks Framework as follows:
SAFETY: Uphold privacy, security, and reliability.
ACCOUNTABILITY: Be human-centered, responsive to human guidance, and transparent.
FAIRNESS AND TRANSPARENCY: Avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias, and assess for impact.
EFFICACY: Be purposeful and rigorous.
Privacy and security: Amplify ensures that privacy protections are included by default in AI systems, including ensuring that data collection conforms to reasonable expectations and that only data strictly necessary for the specific context is collected, in conformance with our policies around the collection, use, and sharing of personal information. Amplify’s applications use student personal information solely for the purpose of performing the service, in alignment with Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and applicable state law and district policies and contracts. In addition, Amplify monitors security risks specific to AI systems, including dataset poisoning, prompt injection, and adversarial attacks, and shores up resilience against attempts to alter use, behavior, or performance, or to compromise security properties. Read more about Amplify privacy and security programs.
AI in Amplify’s products and services
Amplify uses AI in our programs in ways that respond to the demonstrated needs of districts, teachers, and students and that meet our high standards for safety, accountability, fairness, and efficacy. Amplify has established an AI Center of Excellence, with AI scientists, engineers, product managers, and designers dedicated to establishing best practices and guiding development in key areas that meet these criteria.
Some ways Amplify leverages AI in products and services:
Amplify ELA: Amplify ELA’s Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) tools give teachers the ability to understand, track, and support student progress with key foundational skills, which are strong indicators of students’ analytic writing proficiency. Developed in conjunction with the Writing Prompts in Amplify ELA, AWE assesses student writing for Focus, Use of Evidence, and Conventions, providing critical feedback for teachers and data for Amplify’s writing reports.
Boost Reading: Students in grades K–5 may take the Boost Reading Benchmark Assessment to determine their placement in Boost when they first log in. Students receive a set of word recognition, fluency, and comprehension activities, supported by automatic speech recognition.
Boost Math: Personalized Learning activities feature Spark, a virtual tutor that uses text-to-speech to provide personalized, engaging support to help students build mastery. The tutor incorporates student numerical responses in its conversation, but does not use student personal information.
What’s included in our Spanish language arts curriculum
Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts® (CKLA) is available in both English and Spanish. Amplify Caminos al Conocimiento Esencial, our robust Spanish language arts companion for grades K–5, supports multiple teaching models, including dual language immersion and transitional classrooms.

Year at a glance
The program’s intentional Knowledge Sequence from K–5 connects knowledge and vocabulary within a grade level and across grade levels, for deeper reading comprehension and preparation for college, career, and life. Instead of “activating prior knowledge,” Amplify Caminos helps you build it in the classroom from day one, for every child, expanding each student’s knowledge base long before they transition to reading to learn.

Units & domains at a glance
Each Knowledge Domain in grades K–2 and Unit in grades 3–5 varies in the number of days based on instructional purpose. Just as with our top-rated Amplify CKLA program, the Amplify Caminos materials engage and delight young learners with resources that are both appealing and original.

Domain
Nursery Rhymes and Fables/Rimas y fábulas infantiles
Start learning about literature with these classic Mother Goose rhymes.

Domain
The Five Senses/Los cinco sentidos
Learning about the body starts with learning about how we experience the world.

Domain
Stories/Cuentos
Learn about the parts of a book and some of the stories that go in one.

Domain
Plants/Plantas
Discover the lifecycle of plants and the history of George Washington Carver.

Domain
Farms/Granjas
Now we know how plants make their food… but what about animals?

Domain
Native Americans/Los nativos americanos
Who were the first people in America? A look at the Lenape, Wampanoag, and Lakota Sioux.

Domain
Kings and Queens/Reyes y reinas
To understand fairy tales, it’s best to first understand royalty.

Domain
Seasons and Weather/Las estaciones y el tiempo
The study of natural cycles continues with the weather and why it happens.

Domain
Columbus and the Pilgrims/Colón y los peregrinos
A look at the first contact between Europe and the Americas, and some of its results.

Domain
Colonial Towns and Townspeople/Las colonias y sus habitantes
Before the War for Independence, how did the town and country depend on one another?

Domain
Taking Care of the Earth/Cuidar el planeta Tierra
We only have one Earth—here are some ways to help care for it.

Domain
Presidents and American Symbols/Presidentes y símbolos de los Estados Unidos
Start learning about government through the lives of five presidents.

Domain
Fables and Stories/Fábulas y cuentos
Learn some of the key elements of a story through classic fables.

Domain
The Human Body/El cuerpo humano
What are germs? What are the organs? And what does it all have to do with health?

Domain
Different Lands, Similar Stories/Tierras diferentes, cuentos similares
A world tour of storytelling, and the stories that stay the same across the world.

Domain
Early World Civilizations/Antiguas civilizaciones del mundo
Rivers, farming, writing, and laws: just what does it take to build a civilization?

Domain
Early American Civilizations/Antiguas civilizaciones de América
What will we find in the great temples of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca civilizations?

Domain
Astronomy/Astronomía
How the Earth relates to the moon, the sun, and the rest of the planets.

Domain
The History of the Earth/La historia de la Tierra
Just what lies beneath the Earth’s surface, and what can it teach us about the past?

Domain
Animals and Habitats/Los animales y sus hábitats
A look at the connection between how animals live and where they make their homes.

Domain
Fairy Tales/Cuentos de hadas
What do fairy tales have to teach us about how stories are told?

Domain
A New Nation: American Independence/Una nueva nación: la independencia de los Estados Unidos
The story of the birth of the United States out of the 13 Colonies.

Domain
Frontier Explorers/Exploradores de la Frontera
The story of the journey west from the newborn U.S.A. to find the Pacific Ocean.

Domain
Fairy Tales and Tall Tales/Cuentos de hadas y cuentos exagerados
Learn about exaggeration and characterization on the frontier.

Domain
Early Asian Civilizations/Antiguas civilizaciones de Asia
Tour the world of classical civilization, starting with India and China.

Domain
Ancient Greek Civilization/La civilización griega antigua
The tour continues with the philosophy and politics of Greece.

Domain
Greek Myths/Mitos griegos
Dive deep into the characters and storytelling of classic myths.

Domain
The War of 1812/La guerra de 1812
Learn about America’s “Second War for Independence.”

Domain
Cycles in Nature/Los ciclos de la naturaleza
Introducing the natural cycles that make our lives possible.

Domain
Westward Expansion/La expansión hacia el oeste
Why did pioneers go west? What happened to the people who were there?

Domain
Insects/Los insectos
Lay the grounds for animal classification by looking at solitary and social insects.

Domain
The U.S. Civil War/La Guerra Civil de los Estados Unidos
Begin to grapple with U.S. history’s central crisis over slavery.

Domain
Human Body: Building Blocks and Nutrition/El cuerpo humano: componentes básicos y nutrición
A deeper dive into the digestive system and the nutrition process.

Domain
Immigration/La inmigración
Why did people immigrate to the United States, and what did they find here?

Domain
Fighting for a Cause/Luchar por una causa
How people can do extraordinary things to make the world better for everyone.

Unit 1
Classic Tales: The Wind in the Willows/Cuentos Clásicos: El viento en los sauces
A deep dive into character, theme, and POV in classic stories from around the world.

Unit 2
Animal Classification/La clasificación de los animales
How do we classify different animals by their appearance and behavior?

Unit 3
The Human Body: Systems and Senses/El cuerpo humano: sistemas y sentidos
Let’s take a closer look at how the skeleton, muscles, and nervous system all work.

Unit 4
The Ancient Roman Civilization/La civilización romana antigua
What is Rome’s greatest cultural contribution? In this unit, your students decide.

Unit 5
Light and Sound/La luz y el sonido
The science behind all the ways we see and hear the world.

Unit 6
The Viking Age/La era vikinga
An immersive narrative experience about what life was like in Viking communities.

Unit 7
Astronomy: Our Solar System and Beyond/Astronomía: nuestro sistema solar y más allá
More about our universe, including a writing project about daily life on a space station.

Unit 8
Native Americans: Regions and Cultures/Los nativos americanos: regiones y culturas
How did Native American nations change their way of life in different parts of the world?

Unit 9
Early Explorations of North America/La exploración europea de América del Norte
What was it like to sail to North America with the early European explorers?

Unit 10
Colonial America/La época colonial en los Estados Unidos
A study of the very different ways of life in the different pre-U.S. colonies.

Unit 11
Ecology/Ecología
Students keep ecologist’s journals to learn about our world and how best to protect it.

Unit 1
Personal Narratives/Narrativas personales
Read stories of personal experience… and learn to reflect on your own.

Unit 2
Empires in the Middle Ages/Los imperios en la Edad Media, parte 1 & Los imperios en la Edad Media, parte 2
Explore the medieval history of Europe and the Middle East.

Unit 3
Poetry/Poesía
Study the poetry of many nations using licensed text anthologies, and begin to write your own.

Unit 4
Eureka! Student Inventor/¡Eureka! Estudiante inventor
Transform the class into a lab for students to build and present inventions.

Unit 5
Geology/Geología
Plate tectonics, volcanoes, erosion: all the forces that shape the Earth.

Unit 6
Contemporary Fiction with excerpts from The House on Mango Street/Ficción Contemporánea con Fragmentos de La Casa en Mango Street
Explore The House on Mango Street… and write a book while doing it.

Unit 7
American Revolution/La Revolución estadounidense
Why did America seek independence? Let’s investigate the causes and effects.

Unit 8
Treasure Island/La Isla del Tesoro
How dSeek the treasure of plot in this detailed study of a classic fiction adventure.

Unit 1
Personal Narratives/Narrativas personales
Through writing and sharing their writing, students begin to identify themselves as writers.

Unit 2
Early American Civilizations/Las primeras civilizaciones americanas
Students craft a codex to explain the rise and fall of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca people.

Unit 3
Poetry/Poesía
Students close read many forms of poetry… and learn to write them.

Unit 4
Adventures of Don Quixote/Las Aventuras de Don Quijote
Was Don Quixote right to fight the windmill? In this full-length novel study, students decide.

Unit 5
The Renaissance/El Renacimiento
Exploring the art and literature of the Renaissance through the works of its masters.

Unit 6
The Reformation/La Reforma
How did the printing press transform the religion and society of Europe?

Unit 7
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream/Sueño de Una Noche de Verano de William Shakespeare
Students enter the world of Shakespeare by reading, designing, and acting out his work.

Unit 8
Native Americans/Los nativos americanos
How did the policies of the U.S. government impact Native American culture and lives?

Unit 9
Chemical Matter/Química
Students use knowledge of chemistry to solve a mystery.
Print & digital components
The program includes instructional guidance and student materials for a year of instruction, with lessons and activities that keep students engaged every day.
Component
FORMAT
Knowledge (Conocimientos) Teacher Guides (K–2)
Knowledge Strand Teacher Guides contain Amplify CKLA’s cross-curricular read-alouds and application activities, all of which are standards-based to build mastery of content knowledge and literacy skills. There is one Teacher Guide per Knowledge Domain.
Print and digital
Knowledge Image Cards (K–2)
Amplify Caminos includes Image Cards for each Knowledge Domain to bring each topic to life through vivid visuals.
Print and digital
Knowledge Flip Books (K–2)
Projectable Flip Books are provided to accompany the read-alouds in each Knowledge Domain.
Digital
Teacher Guides (3–5)
Teacher Guides for grades 3–5 units are based on content-rich topics and incorporate reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in the context of background knowledge. There is one Teacher Guide per unit.
Print or digital
Teacher Resource Site (K–5)
The program includes a one-stop-shop website for lesson projections, digital versions of all Amplify Caminos materials, lesson planning resources, multimedia (such as eBooks), and more.
Digital
Professional Learning Site (K–5)
The Professional Learning site includes training materials, best practices, and other resources to develop program expertise. Access professional development anywhere, anytime.
Digital
Component
FORMAT
Knowledge (Conocimiento) Activity Books (K–2)
Activity Books provide students with the opportunity to deepen world and word knowledge by responding to text in a diversity of ways.
Student Readers (3–5)
Student Readers serve as content-rich anchor texts for each unit. Units such as Poetry and Contemporary Fiction feature authentic texts originally written in Spanish.
Activity Books (3–5)
Activity Books in grades 3–5 provide daily opportunities for students to hone reading and writing skills within the context of each unit.
Print and digital
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Amplify Classroom (formerly Desmos Classroom) is a free K–12 teaching platform that gives educators access to a library of high-quality, interactive lessons in math, literacy, and science. The platform is built with tools that promote student engagement and collaboration, while giving teachers real-time visibility into student thinking.
Amplify Classroom supports K–12 educators across math, science, and literacy. The platform offers more than 1,000 free interactive lessons, with content designed to build deeper understanding and student engagement at every grade level.
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Amplify Classroom offers built-in tools that promote real-time teacher visibility and student engagement. Key features include:
- Real-time student insights: See student responses and thinking as they happen, all in one easy-to-use teacher dashboard.
- Teacher pacing controls: Pause a lesson or advance all student screens simultaneously.
- Select and sequence student work: Highlight student ideas live by selecting and sharing student work during a discussion.
- Anonymous student sharing: Display student work to the class without showing students’ real names.
- Lesson customization: Copy and edit pre-built K–12 lessons or build your own from scratch using our drag-and-drop lesson builder.
- Class management tools: Create and manage multiple classes, add co-teachers, and organize rosters.
Yes. Teachers can customize our K–12 lessons or even create lessons from scratch to meet their students’ unique needs. This includes adding things like pre-made screens, images, multiple-choice questions, graphs, and more with our drag-and-drop lesson builder.
Yes. Many teachers use Amplify Classroom to supplement their existing curriculum. The platform can be integrated into any part of a teacher’s day, with a wide library of lessons and tools for core or supplemental instruction.
For schools seeking a full core curriculum, Amplify also offers paid programs including Amplify Desmos Math and Amplify CKLA, both fully integrated into the platform.
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Overview Video
The Lawrence Hall of Science
Developed by the science education experts at UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science and the digital learning team at Amplify, our program features:
- A phenomena-based approach where students construct a complex understanding of each unit’s anchor phenomenon.
- A blend of cohesive storylines, hands-on investigations, rich discussions, literacy-rich activities, and digital tools.
- Carefully crafted units, chapters, lessons, and activities designed to deliver true 3-dimensional learning.
- An instructional design that supports all learners in accessing all standards.
Instructional model
The Amplify Science program is rooted in the proven, research-based pedagogy of Do, Talk, Read, Write, Visualize. Here’s how each element works:
DO
First-hand investigations are an important part of any science classroom, and Amplify Science has students getting hands-on in every unit—from building models of protein molecules to experimenting with electrical systems.
TALK
Student-to-student discourse and full-class discussions are an integral part of the program. Students are provided with numerous opportunities to engage in meaningful oral scientific argumentation, all while fostering a collaborative classroom environment.
READ
Students read scientific articles, focusing their reading activities on searching for evidence related to their investigation and, importantly, on asking and recording questions as they read through fascinating texts on 21st-century topics.
WRITE
Following real-world practices, students write scientific arguments based on evidence they’ve collected, making clear their reasoning about how a given piece of evidence connects to one of several claims.
VISUALIZE
By manipulating digital simulations and using modeling tools to craft visualizations of their thinking— just as real scientists and engineers do—students take their learning far beyond the confines of what they can physically see in the classroom in an exciting and authentic way.
Program structure
Our cyclical lesson design ensures students receive multiple exposures to concepts through a variety of modalities. As they progress through the lessons within a unit, students build and deepen their understanding, increasing their ability to develop and refine complex explanations of the unit’s phenomenon.
It’s this proven program structure and lesson design that enables Amplify Science to address 100% of the NGSS, and support students in mastering the standards.

Unit types
While every unit delivers three-dimensional learning experiences and engages students in gathering evidence from a rich collection of sources, each unit also serves a unique instructional purpose.
In grades 6–8:
- One unit is a launch unit.
- Three units are core units.
- Two units are engineering internships.
Launch units are the first units taught in each year of Amplify Science. The goal of the Launch unit is to introduce students to norms, routines, and practices that will be built on throughout the year, including argumentation, active reading, and using the program’s technology. For example, rather than taking the time to explain the process of active reading in every unit in a given year, it is explained thoroughly in the Launch unit, thereby preparing students to read actively in all subsequent units.
Core units establish the context of the unit by introducing students to a real-world problem. As students move through lessons in a Core unit, they figure out the unit’s anchoring phenomenon, gain an understanding of the unit’s disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering practices, and make linkages across topics through the crosscutting concepts. Each Core unit culminates with a Science Seminar and final writing activity.
Engineering Internship units invite students to design solutions for real-world problems as interns for a fictional company called Futura. Students figure out how to help those in need, from tsunami victims in Sri Lanka to premature babies, through the application of engineering practices. In the process, they apply and deepen their learning from Core units.
Unit sequence
Our lessons follow a structure that is grounded in regular routines while still being flexible enough to allow for a variety of learning experiences.
In fact, our multi-modal instruction offers more opportunities for students to construct meaning, and practice and apply concepts than any other program. What’s more, our modular design means our units can be flexibly arranged to support your instructional goals.

Program components
Available digitally and in print, our unit-specific reference guides are chock full of helpful resources, including scientific background knowledge, planning information and resources, color-coded 3-D Statements, detailed lesson plans, tips for delivering instruction, and differentiation strategies.

Hands-on learning is an essential part of Amplify Science, and is integrated into every unit. Students actively participate in science, playing the roles of scientists and engineers as they gather evidence, think critically, solve problems, and develop and defend claims about the world around them. Every unit includes hands-on investigations that are critical to achieving the unit’s learning goals.

More hands-on with Flextensions:
Hands-on Flextensions are additional, optional investigations that are included at logical points in the learning progression and give students an opportunity to dig deeper if time permits. These activities offer teachers flexibility to choose to dedicate more time to hands-on learning. Materials referenced in Hands-on Flextension activities will either be included in the unit kit or are easily sourced. Supporting resources such as student worksheets will be included as downloadable PDF files.
Our kits include enough materials to support 200 student uses. In other words, teachers can easily support all five periods and small groups of 4-5 students each. Plus, our unit-specific kits mean teachers just grab the tub they need and then put it all back with ease.

Our digital Simulations and Practice Tools are powerful resources for exploration, data collection, and student collaboration. They allow students the ability to explore scientific concepts that might otherwise be invisible or impossible to see with the naked eye.
Available for every unit, our Student Investigation Notebooks contain instructions for activities and space for students to record data and observations, reflect on ideas from texts and investigations, and construct explanations and arguments.
In grades 6–8, one copy of the Student Investigation Notebook is included in each unit’s materials kit for use as a blackline master. Each notebook is also available as a downloadable PDF on the Unit Guide page of the digital Teacher’s Guide.

These customizable PowerPoints are available for every lesson of the program and make delivering instruction a snap with visual prompts, colorful activity instructions, investigation set-up videos and animations, and suggested teacher talk in the notes section of each slide.

Explore your print samples
With your Amplify Science print samples, you’ll find unit-specific Teacher’s References Guides and Student Investigation Notebooks for each grade level.
A note about the Teacher’s Reference Guides:
It’s important that your committee sees the full breadth and depth of our instruction. For that reason, we provided a copy of each of our unit-specific Teacher Reference Guides.
Rest assured that teachers do not use these robust reference guides for day-to-day teaching. For that, we have a hands-free TG!

- Teacher Reference Guide: Unlike a typical TG that requires a series of supplemental books to support it, our encyclopedic reference guide is chock-full of everything a teacher needs to fully implement our program and the NGSS.
- Ready-to-Teach Lesson Slides: For daily instruction, teachers need their hands free. That’s why we created ready-to-teach lesson slides for every single lesson. What’s more, they are editable and include suggested teacher talk and point-of-use differentiation and other instructional tips. Click to learn more.
A note about the Materials Kits:
Hands-on learning is at the heart of Amplify Science, and is integrated into every unit. In order to make hands-on learning more manageable for busy teachers, Amplify Science materials are organized into unit-specific kits.

Our unit-specific kits:
- Include more materials — We give teachers enough materials to support 200 student uses.
- Are more manageable — Unlike other programs that require large groups of students to share limited sets of materials, our kits include enough to support small groups of 4–5 students.
- Include supportive videos — Each hands-on activity provides clear instructions for the teacher, with more complex activities supported by video demonstrations and illustrations.
What comes in each grade level kit? Click the links below to see the grade-specific lists of all materials included in each kit.
Access your digital samples
Explore as a teacher
Follow these instructions to explore the Amplify Science digital platform as a teacher.
- Click the Access Amplify Science Platform button below and bookmark it.
- Select Log in with Amplify.
- Enter the username: t1.jeffersoncounty@demo.tryamplify.net
- Enter the password: Amplify1-jeffersoncounty
- Click the Science icon.
- Click on the Program Menu in the top center of the screen and select any grade.
- Select any unit.
To help familiarize yourself with navigating the digital platform,watch the below navigational video.
Explore as a student
Follow these instructions to explore the Amplify Science digital platform as a student.
- Click the Access Amplify Science Platform button below and bookmark it.
- Select Log in with Amplify.
- Enter the username: s1.jeffersoncounty@demo.tryamplify.net
- Enter the password: Amplify1-jeffersoncounty
- Click the Science icon.
- Click on the Grade Menu in the top center of the screen and select any grade.
- Select any unit.
Resources to support your review
Grade 6
Unit 1: Area and Surface Area
| Amplify Math | Desmos Math 6–A1 |
|---|---|
| Unit 1: Area and Surface Area | Unit 1: Area and Surface Area Unit 7: Positive and Negative Numbers |
| Lesson 1: The Tangram | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Shapes on a Plane |
| Lesson 2: Exploring the Tangram | Unit 1 Lesson 2: Letters |
| Sub-Unit 1 : Area of Special Polygons | |
| Lesson 3: Tilting the Plane | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Shapes on a Plane |
| Lesson 4: Compositing and Rearranging to Determine Area | Unit 1 Lesson 2: Letters |
| Lesson 5: Reasoning to Determine Area | Unit 1 Lesson 2: Letters |
| Lesson 6: Parallelograms | Unit 1 Lesson 3: Exploring Parallelograms (Print available) Lesson 4: Off the Grid |
| Lesson 7: Bases and Heights of Parallelograms | Unit 1 Lesson 3: Exploring Parallelograms (Print available) Lesson 4: Off the Grid |
| Lesson 8: Bases and Heights of Parallelograms | Unit 1 Lesson 3: Exploring Parallelograms (Print available) Lesson 4: Off the Grid |
| Lesson 9: From Parallelograms to Triangles | Unit 1 Lesson 3: Exploring Parallelograms (Print available) Lesson 4: Off the Grid Lesson 6: Triangles and Parallelograms |
| Lesson 10: Bases and Heights of Triangles | Unit 1 Lesson 4: Off the Grid Lesson 6: Triangles and Parallelograms |
| Lesson 11: Formula for the Area of a Triangle | Unit 1 Lesson 5: Exploring Triangles (Print available) |
| Lesson 12: From Triangles to Trapezoids | Unit 1 Lesson 4: Off the Grid Lesson 6: Triangles and Parallelograms |
| Lesson 13: Polygons | Unit 1 Lesson 2: Letters Lesson 8: Pile of Polygons Practice Day 1 (Print available) Unit 7 Lesson 11: Polygon Maker |
| Sub-Unit 2: Nets and Surface Area | |
| Lesson 14: What is Surface Area? | Unit 1 Lesson 9: Renata’s Stickers |
| Lesson 15: Nets and Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms | Unit 1 Lesson 10: Plenty of Polyhedra Lesson 11:Nothing but Nets(Print available) Lesson 12: Face Value Lesson 13: Take It To Go (Print available) |
| Lesson 16: Nets and Surface Area of Prisms | Unit 1 Lesson 12: Face Value Lesson 13: Take It To Go (Print available) |
| Lesson 17: Constructing a Rhombicuboctahedron | Unit 1 Lesson 13: Take It To Go (Print available) |
| Lesson 18: Simplifying Expressions for Squares and Cubes | Unit 1 Lesson 11: Exponent Expressions (Print available) Lesson 12: Squares and Cubes |
| Lesson 19: Simplifying Expressions Even More Using Exponents | Unit 1 Lesson 11: Exponent Expressions (Print available) |
| Lesson 20: Designing a Suspended Tent |
Unit 2: Introducing Ratios
| Amplify Math | Desmos Math 6–A1 |
|---|---|
| Unit 2: Introducing Ratios | Unit 2: Introducing Ratios |
| Lesson 1: Fermi Problems | |
| Sub-Unit 1: What are Ratios? | |
| Lesson 2: Introducing Ratios and Ratio Language | Unit 2 Lesson 1: Pizza Maker Lesson 2: Ratio Rounds (Print available) |
| Lesson 3: Representing Ratios with Diagrams | Unit 2 Lesson 1: Pizza Maker Lesson 2: Ratio Rounds (Print available) Lesson 3:Rice Ratios (Print available) |
| Lesson 4: A Recipe for Purple Oobleck | |
| Lesson 5: Kapa Dyes | |
| Sub-Unit 2:Equivalent Ratios | |
| Lesson 6: Defining Equivalent Ratios | Unit 2 Lesson 3: Rice Ratios (Print available) Lesson 4: Fruit Lab (Print available) Lesson 11: Community Life (Print available) Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Lesson 7: Representing Equivalent Ratios with Tables | |
| Lesson 8: Reasoning with Multiplication and Division (optional) | |
| Lesson 9: Common Factors | |
| Lesson 10: Common Multiples | |
| Lesson 11: Navigating a Table of Equivalent Ratios | Unit 2 Lesson 6: Product Prices (Print available) Lesson 7: Mixing Paint, Part 1 |
| Lesson 12: Tables and Double Number Line Diagrams | Unit 2 Lesson 6: Product Prices (Print available) Lesson 7: Mixing Paint, Part 1 |
| Lesson 13: Tempo and Double Number Lines | Unit 2 Lesson 5: Balancing Act Lesson 6: Product Prices (Print available) |
| Sub-Unit 3: Solving Ratio Problems | |
| Lesson 14: Solving Equivalent Ratios | Unit 2 Lesson 6: Product Prices (Print available) Lesson 7: Mixing Paint, Part 1 Lesson 10: Balloons Lesson 11: Community Life (Print available) |
| Lesson 15: Part-Part-Whole Ratios | Unit 2 Lesson 12 Mixing Paint, Part 2 Lesson 13: City Planning |
| Lesson 16: Comparing Ratios | |
| Lesson 17: More Comparing and Solving | |
| Lesson 18: Measuring with Different-Sized Units | |
| Lesson 20: More Fermi Problems |
Unit 3: Rates and Percentages
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| Unit 3: Rates and Percentages | Unit 2: Introducing Ratios Unit 3: Unit Rates and percentages |
| Lesson 1: Choosing Representation for Student Council | Launch Lesson |
| Sub-Unit 1: Rates | |
| Lesson 2: How Much for One? | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Model Trains |
| Lesson 3: Constant Speed | |
| Lesson 4: Comparing Speeds | Unit 2 Lesson 8: World Records (Print available) Unit 3 Lesson 4: Model Trains Lesson 5: Soft Serve Lesson 6: Welcome to the Robot Factory |
| Lesson 5: Interpreting Rates | Unit 3 Lesson 8: World Records (Print available) Unit 3 Lesson 4: Model Trains Lesson 5: Soft Serve Lesson 6: Welcome to the Robot Factory |
| Lesson 6: Comparing Rates | |
| Lesson 7: Solving Rate Problems | Unit 3 Lesson 7: More Soft Serve |
| Sub-Unit 2: Percentages | |
| Lesson 8: What Are percentages? | Unit 3 Lesson 8: Lucky Duckies Lesson 9: Bicycle Goals |
| Lesson 9: Determining Percentages | |
| Lesson 10: Benchmark Percentages | Unit 3 Lesson 7: Lucky Duckies |
| Lesson 11: Finding This Percent of That | Unit 3 Lesson 10: What’s Missing? (Print available) Lesson 11: Cost Breakdown Lesson 12: More Bicycle Goals Lesson 13: A Country as a Village |
| Lesson 12: This Percent of What | |
| Lesson 13: Solving Percentage Problems | Unit 3 Lesson: 10: What’s Missing (Print available) Lesson: 11: Cost Breakdown Lesson: 12: More Bicycle Goals Lesson: 13: A Country as a Village |
| Lesson 14: If Our Class Were the World | |
| Lesson 15: Voting for a School Mascot |
Unit 4: Dividing Fractions
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| Lesson 1: Seeing Fractions | |
| Sub-Unit 1: Interpreting Division Scenarios | |
| Lesson 3: Relating Multiplication and Division | |
| Lesson 4: Size of Divisor and Size of Quotient | Unit 4 Lesson 1: Cookie Cutter |
| Sub-Unit 2: Division with Fractions | |
| Lesson 5: How Many Groups | Unit 4 Lesson 3: Flour Planner Lesson 4: Flower Planters Lesson 4: Garden Bricks (Print available) |
| Lesson 6: Using Diagrams to Find the Number of Groups | Unit 4 Lesson 5: Garden Bricks (Print available) Lesson 6: Fill the Gap |
| Lesson 7: Dividing with Common Denominators | Unit 4 Lesson 6: Fill the Gap |
| Lesson 8: How Much in Each Group? (Part 1) | Unit 4 Lesson 8: Potting Soil |
| Lesson 9: How Much in Each Group? (Part 2) | Unit 4 Lesson 8: Potting Soil |
| Lesson 10: Dividing by Unit and Non-Unit Fractions | Unit 4 Lesson 7: Break It Down Lesson 8: Potting Soil Lesson 9: Division Challenges |
| Lesson 11: Using an Algorithm to Divide Fractions | Unit 4 Lesson 9: Division Challenges Practice Day |
| Lesson 13: Fractional Lengths | Unit 4 Lesson 12: Puzzling |
| Lesson 14: Area with Fractional Lengths | Unit 4 Lesson 9: Puzzling Area (Print available) |
| Lesson 15: Volume of Prisms | Unit 4 Lesson 13: Volume Challenges (Print available) |
| Lesson 16: Fish Tanks Inside of Fish Tanks | Unit 4 Lesson 10: Swap Meet |
| Lesson 17: Now, Where Was That Bus? | Unit 4 Lesson 10: Capstone |
Unit 5: Arithmetic in Base Ten
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| Lesson 1: Precision and World Records | |
| Sub-Unit 1: Adding and Subtracting Decimals | |
| Lesson 2: Speaking of Decimals… | Unit 5 Lesson 1: Dishing Out Decimals (Print available) |
| Lesson 3: Adding and Subtracting Decimals | Unit 5 Lesson 3: Fruit by the Pound Lesson 4: Missing Digits |
| Lesson 4: X Games Medal Results | Unit 5 Lesson 2: Decimal Diagrams |
| Sub-Unit 2: Multiplying Decimals | |
| Lesson 5: Decimal Points in Products | Unit 5 Lesson 5: Decimal Multiplication |
| Lesson 6: Methods for Multiplying Decimals | Unit 5 Lesson 5: Decimal Multiplication Lesson 6: Multiplying with Areas Lesson 7: Multiplication Methods (Print available) |
| Lesson 7: Using Diagrams to Represent Multiplication | Unit 5 Lesson 5: Decimal Multiplication Lesson 6: Multiplying with Areas |
| Lesson 8: Calculating Products of Decimals | Unit 5 Lesson 6: Multiplying with Areas |
| Sub-Unit 3: Dividing Decimals | |
| Lesson 9: Exploring Division | |
| Lesson 10: Using Long Division | Unit 5 Lesson 8: Division Diagrams Lesson 9: Long Division Launch (Print available) Lesson 10: Return of the Long Division (Print available) |
| Lesson 11: Dividing Numbers That Result in Decimals | Unit 5 Lesson 9: Long Division Launch (Print available) Lesson 10: Return of the Long Division (Print available) |
| Lesson 12: Using Related Expressions to Divide with Decimals | |
| Lesson 13: Dividing Multi-Digit Decimals | Unit 5 Lesson 9: Long Division Launch (Print available) Lesson 10: Return of the Long Division (Print available) |
| Lesson 14: The So-called World’s Littlest Skyscraper |
Unit 6: Expressions and Equations
Unit 7: Rational Numbers
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| Unit 7: Rational Numbers | Unit 1: Area and Surface Area Unit 7: Positive and Negative Numbers |
| Lesson 1: How Far? Which Way? | |
| Sub-unit 1: Negative Numbers and Absolute Value | |
| Lesson 2: Positive and Negative Numbers | Unit 7 Lesson 1: Can You Dig In Lesson 2: Digging Deeper |
| Lesson 3: Points on the Number Line | Unit 7 Lesson 2: Digging Deeper |
| Lesson 4: Comparing Integers | Unit 7 Lesson 3: Order in the Class (Print available) |
| Lesson 5: Comparing and Ordering Rational Numbers | Unit 7 Lesson 3: Order in the Class (Print available) |
| Lesson 6: Using Negative Numbers to Make Sense of Contexts> | Unit 7 Lesson 4: Sub-Zero |
| Lesson 7: Absolute Value of Numbers | Unit 7 Lesson 5: Distance on the Number Line |
| Lesson 8: Comparing Numbers and Distance from Zero | Unit 7 Lesson 5: Distance on the Number Line |
| Sub-Unit 2: Inequalities | |
| Lesson 9: Writing Inequalities | |
| Lesson 10: Graphing Inequalities | |
| Lesson 11: Solutions to One or More Inequalities | Unit 7 Lesson 6: Tunnel Travel Lesson 7: Comparing Weights Lesson 8: Shira´s Solutions |
| Lesson 12: Interpreting Inequalities | Unit 7 Lesson 6: Tunnel Travel Lesson 7: Comparing Weights Lesson 8: Shira´s Solutions |
| Sub-Unit 3: The Coordinate Plane | |
| Lesson 13: Extending the Coordinate Plane | |
| Lesson 14: Points on the Coordinate Plane | Unit 7 Lesson 9: Sand Dollar Search Lesson 10: The A-maze-ing Coordinate Plane |
| Lesson 15: Interpreting Points on a Coordinate Plane | Unit 7 Lesson 9: Sand Dollar Search Lesson 10: The A-maze-ing Coordinate Plane Lesson 11: Polygon Maker |
| Lesson 16: Distances on a Coordinate Plane | Unit 7 Lesson 11: Polygon Maker Lesson 12: Graph Telephone (Print available) |
| Lesson 17: Shapes on the Coordinate Plane | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Shapes on a Plane Lesson 2: Letters Lesson 5: Exploring Triangles (Print available) Lesson 6: Triangles and Parallelograms Unit 7 Lesson 3: Exploring Parallelograms (Print available) Lesson 11: Polygon Maker Lesson 12: Graph Telephone (Print available) |
| Lesson 18: Lost and Found Puzzles | |
| Lesson 19: Drawing on the Coordinate Plane | Unit 7 Lesson 11: Polygon Maker Lesson 12: Graph Telephone (Print available) |
Unit 8: Data Sets and Distributions
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| Unit 8: Data Sets and Distributions | Unit 8: Describing Data |
| Lesson 1: Plausible Variation or New Species? | |
| Sub-Unit 1: Statistical Questions and Representing Data | |
| Lesson 2: Statistical Questions | Unit 8 Lesson 1: Screen Time Lesson 2: Dot Plots |
| Lesson 3: Interpreting Dot Plots | Unit 8 Lesson 2: Dot Plots Lesson 3: Minimum Wage (Print available) Lesson 4: Lots More Dots |
| Lesson 4: USing Dot Plots to Answer Statistical Questions | Unit 8 Lesson 2: Dot Plots Lesson 3: Minimum Wage (Print available) Lesson 4: Lots More Dots |
| Lesson 5: Interpreting Histograms | Unit 8 Lesson 5: The Plot Thickens Lesson 6: DIY Histograms (Print available) |
| Lesson 6: Using Histograms to Answer Statistical Questions | Unit 8 Lesson 5: The Plot Thickens Lesson 6: DIY Histograms (Print available) |
| Lesson 7: Describing Distributions on Histograms | Unit 8 Lesson 5: The Plot Thickens Lesson 6: DIY Histograms (Print available) |
| Sub-Unit 2: Measures of Center | |
| Lesson 8: Mean as a Fair Share | Unit 8 Lesson 7: Snack Time |
| Lesson 9: Mean as a Balance Point | Unit 8 Lesson 7: Snack Time |
| Lesson 10: Median | Unit 8 Lesson 11: Toy Cars Lesson 12: In the News |
| Lesson 11: Comparing Mean and Median | Unit 8 Lesson 12: In the News |
| Sub-Unit 3: Measures of Variability | |
| Lesson 12: Describing Variability | |
| Lesson 13: Variability and MAD | |
| Lesson 14: Variability and IQR | Unit 8 Lesson 13: Pumpkin Patch |
| Lesson 15: Box Plots | Unit 8 Lesson 14: Car, Plane, Bus, or Train? (Print available) |
| Lesson 16: Comparing MAD and IQR | |
| Lesson 17: Asian Elephant Populations |
Grade 7
Unit 1: Scale Drawings
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| Unit 1: Scale Drawings | Unit 1: Scale Drawings Unit 3: Measuring Circles Unit 4: Proportional Relationships and Percentages |
| Lesson 1: Scale-y Shapes | |
| Sub-Unit 1: Scaled Copies | |
| Lesson 2: What are Scaled Copies? | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Scaling Machines |
| Lesson 3: Corresponding Parts and Scale Factors | Unit 1 Lesson 2: Scaling Robots Unit 3 Lesson 1: Toothpicks |
| Lesson 4: Making Scaled Copies | Unit 1 Lesson 3: Make It Scale Unit 4 Lesson 3: Sticker Sizes |
| Lesson 5: The Size of the Scale Factor | Unit 1 Lesson 4: Tiles |
| Lesson 6: Scaling and Area | Unit 1 Lesson 5: Tiles Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Sub-Unit 2: Scale Drawings | |
| Lesson 7: Scale Drawings | Unit 1 Lesson 6: Introducing Scale Lesson 7: Will It Fit? (Print available) |
| Lesson 8: Creating Scale Drawings | Unit 1 Lesson 8: Scaling States Lesson 9: Scaling Buildings Lesson 10: Room Redesign (Print available) |
| Lesson 9: Scale Drawings and Maps | |
| Lesson 10: Changing Scale in Scale Drawings | Unit 1 Lesson 8: Scaling States Lesson 9: Scaling Buildings Lesson 10: Room Redesign (Print available) |
| Lesson 11: Scales without Units | |
| Lesson 12: Units in Scale Drawings | Unit 1 Lesson 8: Scaling States Lesson 9: Scaling Buildings Lesson 10: Room Redesign (Print available)Practice Day (Print available) |
| Lesson 13: Build Your Brand |
Unit 2: Introducing Proportional Relationships
Unit 3: Measuring Circles
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| Unit 3: Measuring Circles | Unit 3: Measuring Circles |
| Lesson 1: The Wandering Goat | |
| Sub-unit 1: Circumference of a Circle | |
| Lesson 2: Exploring Circles | Unit 3 Lesson 2: Is it a Circle? Lesson 3: Measuring Around |
| Lesson 3: How Well Can You Measure? | |
| Lesson 4: Exploring Circumference | Unit 3 Lesson 2: Is It a Circle? Lesson 3: Measuring Around |
| Lesson 5: Understanding π | |
| Lesson 6: Applying Circumference | Unit 3 Lesson 2: Is It a Circle? Lesson 3: Measuring Around |
| Lesson 7: Circumference and Wheels | |
| Sub-Unit 2: Area of a Circle | |
| Lesson 8: Exploring the Area of a Circle | Unit 3 Lesson 5: Area Strategies Lesson 6: Radius Squares (Print available) Lesson 7: Why Pi? Lesson 8: Area Challenges Lesson 9: Circle vs. Square Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Lesson 9: Relating Area to Circumference | Unit 3 Lesson 5: Area Strategies Lesson 6: Radius Squares (Print available) Lesson 7: Why Pi? Lesson 8: Area Challenges Lesson 9: Circle vs. Square Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Lesson 10: Applying Area to Circles | Unit 3 Lesson 6:Radius Squares (Print available) |
| Lesson 11: Distinguishing Circumference and Area | Unit 3 Lesson 7: Why Pi? |
| Lesson 12: Capturing Space |
Unit 4: Proportional Relationships and Percentages
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| Unit 4: Percentages | Unit 4: Proportional Relationships and Percentages |
| Lesson 1: (Re)Presenting the United States | |
| Lesson 2: Understanding Percentages and Decimals | |
| Lesson 3: Percent Increase and Decrease | Unit 4Lesson 4: More or Less |
| Lesson 4: Determining 100% | Unit 4Lesson 6: 100% (Print available) |
| Lesson 5: Determining Percent Change | Unit 4Lesson 7: Percent Machines |
| Lesson 6: Percent Increase and Decrease With Equations | Unit 4Lesson 5: All the Equations |
| Lesson 7: Using Equations to Solve Percent Problems | Unit 4Lesson 5: All the Equations |
| Sub-Unit 2: Applying Percentages | |
| Lesson 8: Tax and Tip | Unit 4 Lesson 8: Tax and Tip Lesson 9: Minimum Wage (Print available) Lesson 10: Cost of College (Print available) Lesson 11: Bookcase Builder Lesson 12: Posing Percent Problems |
| Lesson 9: Percent Contexts | Unit 4 Lesson 8: Tax and Tip Lesson 9: Minimum Wage (Print available) Lesson 10: Cost of College (Print available) Lesson 11: Bookcase Builder Lesson 12: Posing Percent Problems |
| Lesson 10: Determining the Percentage | Unit 4 Lesson 4: More and Less |
| Lesson 11: Measurement Error | Unit 4 Lesson 11: Bookcase Builder |
| Lesson 12: Error Intervals | Unit 4 Lesson 11: Bookcase Builder |
| Lesson 13: Writing Better Headlines |
Unit 5: Rational Number Arithmetic
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| Unit 5: Rational Number Arithmetic | Unit 5: Rational Number Artithmetics |
| Lesson 1: Target: Zero | |
| Sub-Unit 1: Adding and Subtracting Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 2: Interpreting Negative Numbers | |
| Lesson 3: Changing Temperatures | Unit 5 Lesson 2: More Floats and Anchors Lesson 3: Bumpers Lesson 4: Draw Your Own (Print available) |
| Lesson 4: Adding Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 5: Money and Debts | |
| Lesson 6: Representing Subtraction | Unit 5 Lesson 5: Number Puzzles |
| Lesson 7: Subtracting Rational Numbers (Part 1) | Unit 5 Lesson 3: Bumpers Lesson 4: Draw Your Own (Print available) Lesson 5: Number Puzzles Lesson 10: Integer Puzzles Lesson 11: Changing Temperatures Lesson 13: Solar Panels and More (Print available) |
| Lesson 8: Subtracting Rational Numbers (Part 2) | Unit 5 Lesson 3: Bumpers Lesson 4: Draw Your Own (Print available) Lesson 5: Number Puzzles Lesson 10: Integer Puzzles Lesson 11: Changing Temperatures Lesson 13: Solar Panels and More (Print available) |
| Lesson 9: Adding and Subtracting Rational Numbers | Unit 5 Lesson 3: Bumpers Lesson 4: Draw Your Own (Print available) Lesson 5: Number Puzzles Lesson 10: Integer Puzzles Lesson 11: Changing Temperatures Lesson 13: Solar Panels and More (Print available)Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Sub-Unit 2: Multiplying and Dividing Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 10: Position, Speed, and Time | Unit 5 Lesson 7: Back in Time |
| Lesson 11: Multiplying Rational Numbers | Unit 5 Lesson 7: Back in Time |
| Lesson 12: Multiply! | Unit 5 Lesson 7: Back in Time |
| Lesson 13: Dividing Rational Numbers | Unit 5 Lesson 7: Speeding Turtles |
| Lesson 14: Negative Rates | |
| Sub-Unit 3: Four Operations with Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 15: Expressions with Rational Numbers | Unit 5 Lesson 9: Expressions (Print available) |
| Lesson 16: Say It With Decimals | |
| Lesson 17: Solving Problems with Rational Numbers | Lesson 11: Changing Temperatures Lesson 12: Arctic Ice Sea (Print available) Lesson 13: Solar Panels and More (Print available) |
| Lesson 18: Solving Equations With Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 19: Representing Contexts With Equations | |
| Lesson 20: Summiting Everest |
Unit 6: Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities
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| Unit 6: Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities | Unit 2: Introducing Proportional Relationships Unit 4: Proportional Relationships and Percentages Unit 6: Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities |
| Lesson 1: Keeping the Balance | |
| Lesson 2: Balanced and Unbalanced | Unit 6 Lesson 1: Toothpicks and Tiles |
| Lesson 2: Balanced and Unbalanced | Unit 6 Lesson 1: Toothpicks and Tiles |
| Lesson 3: Reasoning About Solving Equations (Part 1) | Unit 6 Lesson 2: Smudged Receipts |
| Lesson 4: Reasoning About Solving Equations (Part 2) | Unit 6 Lesson 2: Smudged Receipts Lesson 3: Equations Lesson 4: Seeing Structure (Print available) |
| Lesson 5: Dealing with Negative Numbers | Unit 6 Lesson 2: Smudged Receipts Lesson 3: Equations Lesson 4: Seeing Structure (Print available) |
| Lesson 5: Dealing with Negative Numbers | Unit 6 Lesson 8: Factoring and Expanding (Print available) Lesson 16: Shira the Sheep |
| Lesson 6: Two Ways to Solve One Equation | Unit 6 Lesson 4: Seeing Struction (Print available) |
| Lesson 7: Practice Solving Equations | Unit 6 Lesson 2: Smudged Receipts Lesson 3: Equations Lesson 4: Seeing Structure (Print available) |
| Sub-Unit 2: Solving Real-World Problems Using Two-Step Equations | |
| Lesson 8: Reasoning With Tape Diagrams | Unit 6 Lesson 2: Smudged Receipts |
| Lesson 9: Reasoning About Equations and Tape Diagrams (Part 1) | Unit 6 Lesson 2: Smudged Receipts |
| Lesson 10: Reasoning About Equations and Tape Diagrams (Part 2) | Unit 6 Lesson 2: Smudged Receipts |
| Lesson 11: Using Equations to Solve Problems | Unit 6 Lesson 2: Smudged Receipts Lesson 3: Equations Lesson 4: Seeing Structure (Print available) |
| Lesson 12: Solving Percent Problems in New Ways | Unit 6 Lesson 4: Seeing Structure (Print available) Unit 4 Lesson 7: Percent MachinesPractice Day 1 (Print available) Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Sub-Unit 3: Inequalities | |
| Lesson 13: Reintroducing Inequalities | Unit 6 Lesson 1: Toothpicks and Tiles |
| Lesson 14: Solving Inequalities | Unit 6 Lesson 5: Balancing Moves Lesson 6: Balancing Equations Lesson 13: I Saw the Signs |
| Lesson 15: Finding Solutions to Inequalities in Context | Unit 6 Lesson 13: I Saw the Signs Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Lesson 16: Efficiently Solving Inequalities | Unit 6 Lesson 10: Collect the Squares |
| Lesson 17: Interpreting Inequalities | Unit 6 Lesson 13: I Saw the Signs Lesson 14: Unbalanced Hangers Lesson 15: Budgeting (Print available) |
| Lesson 18: Modeling With Inequalities | |
| Sub-Unit 4: Equivalent Expressions | |
| Lesson 19: Subtraction in Equivalent Expressions |
Unit 7: Angles, Triangles, and Prisms
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| Unit 7: Angles, Triangles, and Prisms | Unit 7: Angles, Triangles, and Prisms |
| Lesson 1: Shaping Up | |
| Sub-Unit 1: Angle Relationships | |
| Lesson 2: Relationships of Angles | Unit 7 Lesson 1: Pinwheels Lesson 2: Friendly Angles Lesson 3: Angle Diagrams |
| Lesson 3: Supplementary and Complementary Angles (Part 1) | |
| Lesson 4: Supplementary and Complementary Angles (Part 2) | |
| Lesson 5: Vertical Angles | Unit 7 Lesson 2: Friendly Angles Lesson 3: Angle Diagrams Lesson 4: Missing Measures (Print available) [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 6: Using Equations to Solve for Unknown Angles | Unit 7 Lesson 3: Angle Diagrams Lesson 4: Missing Measures (Print available) [Free lesson] |
| Lesson 7: Like Clockwork | |
| Sub-Unit 2: Drawing Polygons with Given Conditions | |
| Lesson 8: Building Polygons (Part 1) | Unit 7 Lesson 6: Is It Enough? |
| Lesson 9: Building Polygons (Part 2) | Unit 7 Lesson 6: Is It Enough? |
| Lesson 10: Triangles with Three Common Measures | Unit 7 Lesson 13: Popcorn Possibilities |
| Lesson 11: Drawing Triangles (Part 1) | Unit 7 Lesson 5: Can You Build It? [Free lesson] Lesson 6: Is It Enough? Lesson 7: More Than One Lesson 8: Can You Draw It? (Print available) Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Lesson 12: Drawing Triangles (Part 2) | Unit 7 Lesson 5: Can You Build It? [Free lesson] Lesson 6: Is It Enough? Lesson 7: More Than One Lesson 8: Can You Draw It? (Print available) Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Sub-Unit 3: Solid Geometry | |
| Lesson 13: Slicing Solids | Unit 7 Lesson 9: Slicing Solids |
| Lesson 14: Volume of Right Prisms | Unit 7 Lesson 10: Simple Prisms |
| Lesson 15: Decomposing Bases for Areas | Unit 7 Lesson 11: More Complicated Prisms |
| Lesson 16: Surface Area of Right Prisms | Unit 7 Lesson 10: Simple Prisms Lesson 11: More Complicated Prisms Lesson 12: Surface Area Strategies (Print available) |
| Lesson 17: Distinguishing Volume and Surface Area | |
| Lesson 18: Applying Volume and Surface Area | Unit 7 Lesson 13: Popcorn Possibilities |
Unit 8: Probability and Sampling
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| Unit 8: Probability and Sampling | Unit 8: Probability and Sampling |
| Lesson 1: The Invention of Fairness | |
| Lesson 2: Chance Experiments | |
| Lesson 3: What are Probabilities? | Unit 8 Lesson 1: How Likely? (Print available) Lesson 2: Prob-bear-bilities [Free lesson Lesson 3: Mystery Bag |
| Lesson 4: Estimating Probabilities Through Repeated Experiments | Unit 8 Lesson 4: Spin Class Lesson 5: Is It Fair? Lesson 6: Fair Games |
| Lesson 5: Code Breaking (Part 1) | |
| Lesson 6: Code Breaking (Part 2) | |
| Sub-Unit 2: Probabilities of Multi-Step Events | |
| Lesson 7: Keeping Track of All Possible Outcomes | Unit 8 Lesson 4: Spin Class Lesson 5: Is it Fair? Lesson 6: Fair Games |
| Lesson 8: Experiments With Multi-Step Events | |
| Lesson 9: Simulating Multi-Step Events | |
| Lesson 10: Designing Simulations | |
| Sub-Unit 3:Sampling | |
| Lesson 11: Comparing Two Populations | Unit 8 Lesson 10: Crab Island Lesson 11: Headlines |
| Lesson 12: Larger Populations | Unit 8 Lesson 10: Crab Island Lesson 11: Headlines |
| Lesson 13: What Makes a Good Sample? | Unit 8 Lesson 10: Crab Island Lesson 11: Headlines |
| Lesson 14: Sampling in a Fair Way | Unit 8 Lesson 10: Crab Island Lesson 11: Headlines |
| Lesson 15: Estimating Population Measures of Center | Unit 8 Lesson 9: Car, Bike, or Train? Lesson 10: Crab Island Lesson 11: Headlines Lesson 12: Flower Power |
| Lesson 16: Estimating Population Proportions | Unit 8 Lesson 9: Car, Bike, or Train? Lesson 10: Crab Island Lesson 11: Headlines Lesson 12: Flower Power |
| Lesson 17: Presentation of Findings |
Grade 8
Unit 1: Rigid Transformations and Congruence
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| Unit 1: Rigid Transformations and Congruence | Unit 1: Rigid Transformations and Congruence Unit 3: Proportional and Linear Relationships |
| Lesson 1: Tessellations | |
| Sub-Unit 1: Rigid Transformations | |
| Lesson 2: Moving in the Plane | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Transformers |
| Lesson 3: Symmetry and Reflection | |
| Lesson 4: Grid Moves | Unit 1 Lesson 3: Transformation Golf Lesson 4: Moving Day (Print available) Lesson 5: Getting Coordinated Unit 3 Lesson 6: Translations |
| Lesson 5: Making the Moves | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Transformers Lesson 2: Spinning, Flipping, Sliding Lesson 4: Moving Day (Print available) Lesson 5: Getting Coordinated |
| Lesson 6: Coordinate Moves (Part 1) | Unit 1 Lesson 4: Moving Day (Print available) Lesson 5: Getting Coordinated |
| Lesson 7: Coordinate Moves (Part 2) | Unit 1 Lesson 4: Moving Day (Print available) Lesson 5: Getting Coordinated |
| Lesson 6: Describing Transformations | Unit 1 Lesson 5: Getting Coordinated Lesson 6: Connecting the Dots |
| Sub-Unit 2: Rigid Transformations and Congruence | |
| Lesson 9: No Bending or Stretching | Unit 1 Lesson 7: No Bending, No Stretching |
| Lesson 10: What is the Same? | Unit 1 Lesson 7: Are They the Same? Lesson 9: Are They Congruent? |
| Lesson 11: Congruent Polygons | Unit 1 Lesson 7: Are They the Same? Lesson 9: Are They Congruent? |
| Sub-Unit 4: Angles in a Triangle | |
| Lesson 13: Line Moves | |
| Lesson 14: Rotation Patterns | |
| Lesson 15: Alternate Interior Angles | Unit 1 Lesson 11: Tearing It Up (Print available) |
| Lesson 16: Adding the Angles in a Triangle | Unit 1 Lesson 11: Tearing It Up (Print available) |
| Lesson 17: Parallel Lines and the Angles in a Triangle | Unit 1 Lesson 10: Transforming Angles |
| Lesson 18: Creating a Border Pattern Using Transformations |
Unit 2: Dilations, Similarity, and Introducing Slope
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| Unit 2: Dilations and Similarity | Unit 2: Dilations and Similarity |
| Lesson 1: Projecting and Scaling | |
| Sub-Unit 1: Dilations | |
| Lesson 2: Circular Grid | Unit 2 Lesson 1: Sketchy Dilations Lesson 2: Dilation Mini Golf Lesson 3: Match My Dilation Lesson 4: Dilations on a Plane |
| Lesson 3: Dilations on a Plane | |
| Lesson 4: Dilations on a Square Grid | Unit 2 Lesson 1: Sketchy Dilations Lesson 2: Dilation Mini Golf Lesson 3: Match My Dilation Lesson 4: Dilations on a Plane |
| Lesson 5: Dilations with Coordinates | Unit 2 Lesson 4: Dilations on a Plane |
| Sub-Unit 2: Similiarity | |
| Lesson 6: Similarity | Unit 2 Lesson 5: Transformations Golf with Dilations Lesson 6: Social Scavenger Hunt (Print available) |
| Lesson 7: Similar Polygons | Unit 2 Lesson 6: Social Scavenger Hunt (Print available) |
| Lesson 8: Similar Triangles | Unit 2 Lesson 7: Are Angles Enough? Lesson 8: Shadows |
| Lesson 9: Ratios of Side Lengths in Similar Triangles | |
| Lesson 12: Optical Illusions |
Unit 3: Linear Relationships
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| Unit 3: Proportional and Linear Relationships | Unit 3: Proportional and Linear Relationships Unit 4: Linear Equations and Linear Systems Unit 5: Functions and Volume |
| Lesson 1: Visual Patterns | |
| Sub-Unit 1: Proportional Relationships | |
| Lesson 2: Proportional Relationships | |
| Lesson 3: Understanding Proportional Relationships | Unit 3 Lesson 1: Turtle Time Trials |
| Lesson 4: Graphs of Proportional Relationships | Unit 3 Lesson 1: Turtle Time Trials Lesson 2: Water Tank Unit 5 Lesson 4: Window Frames |
| Lesson 5: Representing Proportional Relationships | Unit 3 Lesson 1: Turtle Time Trials Unit 5 Lesson 4: Window Frames Lesson 6: Graphing Stories Lesson 7: Feel the Burn (Print available) Lesson 8: Charge! (Print available) |
| Lesson 6: Comparing Proportional Relationships | Unit 3 Lesson 3: Posters |
| Sub-Unit 2: Linear Relationships | |
| Lesson 7: Introduction to Linear Relationships | Unit 3 Lesson 1: Turtle Time Trials Lesson 4: Stacking Cups Unit 5 Lesson 6: Graphing Stories Lesson 7: Feel the Burn (Print available) Lesson 8: Charge! (Print available) |
| Lesson 8: Comparing Linear Relationships | |
| Lesson 9: More Linear Relationships | Unit 5 Lesson 6: Graphing Stories Lesson 7: Feel the Burn (Print available) Lesson 8: Charge! (Print available) |
| Lesson 10: Representations of Linear Relationships | Unit 3 Lesson 5: Flags Lesson 6: Graphing Stories Lesson 7: Feel the Burn (Print available) Lesson 8: Charge! (Print available) |
| Lesson 11: Writing Equations for Lines Using Two Points | |
| Lesson 12: Translating y = mx + b | Unit 3 Lesson 3: Posters Lesson 6: Translations |
| Lesson 13: Slopes Don’t Have to be Positive | Unit 3 Lesson 5: Flags Lesson 6: Translations Lesson 7: Water Cooler Lesson 8: Landing Planes |
| Lesson 10: Calculating Slope | Unit 3 Lesson 7: Water Cooler Lesson 8: Landing Planes |
| Lesson 14: Writing Equations for Lines Using Two Points, Revisited | |
| Lesson 11: Equations of All Kinds of Lines | Unit 3 Lesson 3: Posters Lesson 4: Stacking Cups Lesson 5: Flags Lesson 6: Translations |
| Sub-Unit 3: Linear Equations | |
| Lesson 16: Solutions to Linear Equations | Unit 3 Lesson 3: Posters Lesson 6: Translations Lesson 10: Solutions Unit 4 Lesson 3: Balanced Moves Lesson 4: More Balanced Moves (Print available) |
| Lesson 17: More Solutions to Linear Equations | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Stacking Cups Lesson 5: Flags Lesson 6: Translations Lesson 7: Water Cooler Lesson 10: Solutions |
| Lesson 18: Coordinating Linear Relationships | |
| Lesson 19: Rogue Planes |
Unit 4: Linear Equations and Linear Systems
| Amplify Math | Desmos Math 6–A1 |
|---|---|
| Unit 4: Linear Equations and Systems of Linear Equations | Unit 4: Linear Equations and Systems of Linear Equations |
| Lesson 1: Number Puzzles | Unit 4 Lesson 1: Number machines |
| Sub-Unit 1: Linear Equations in One Variable | |
| Lesson 2: Writing Expressions and Equations | |
| Lesson 3: Keeping the Balance | Unit 4 Lesson 2: Keep It Balanced |
| Lesson 4: Balanced Moves (Part 1) | Unit 4 Lesson 3: Balanced Moves |
| Lesson 5: Balanced Moves (Part 2) | Unit 4 Lesson 4: More Balanced Moves (Print available) |
| Lesson 6: Solving Any Linear Equations | Unit 4 Lesson 4: More Balanced Moves (Print available) Lesson 5: Equation Roundtable (Print available) Lesson 6: Strategic Solving (Print available) |
| Lesson 7: How Many Solutions? (Part 1) | Unit 4 Lesson 5: Equation Roundtable (Print available) |
| Lesson 8: How Many Solutions? (Part 2) | Unit 4 Lesson 5: Equation Roundtable (Print available) |
| Lesson 9: Strategic Solving | |
| Lesson 10: When Are They the Same | Unit 4 Lesson 8: When Are They the Same? |
| Sub-Unit 2: Systems of Linear Equations | |
| Lesson 11: On or Off the Line? | Unit 4 Lesson 9: On or Off the Line? |
| Lesson 12: On Both of the Lines | Unit 4 Lesson 10: On Both Lines |
| Lesson 13: Systems of Linear Equations | Unit 4 Lesson 11: Make Them Balance |
| Lesson 14: Solving Systems of Equations (Part 1) | Unit 4 Lesson 14: All, Some, or None? Part 2 |
| Lesson 15: Solving Systems of Equations (Part 2) | Unit 4 Lesson 12: All, Some, or None? Part 2 |
| Lesson 16: Writing Systems of Linear Equations | Unit 4 Lesson 14: Strategic Solving, Part 2 (Print available) |
| Lesson 17: Pay Gaps |
Unit 5: Functions and Volume
| Amplify Math | Desmos Math 6–A1 |
|---|---|
| Unit 5: Functions and Volume | Unit 2: Dilations, Similarity, and Introducing Slope Unit 3: Proportional and Linear Relationships Unit 5: Functions and Volume |
| Lesson 1: Pick a Pitch | |
| Sub-Unit 1: Representing and Interpreting Functions | |
| Lesson 2: Introduction to Functions | Unit 5 Lesson 2: Guess My Rule |
| Lesson 3: Equations of Functions | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Window Frames |
| Lesson 4: Graphs of Functions (Part 1) | Unit 5 Lesson 3: Function or Not? |
| Lesson 5: Graphs of Functions (Part 2) | Unit 5 Lesson 5: The Tortoise and the Hare |
| Lesson 6: Graphs of Functions (Part 3) | Unit 5 Lesson 6: Graphing Stories |
| Lesson 7: Connecting Representations of Functions | Unit 5 Lesson 7: Feel the Burn (Print available)Lesson 8: Charge! (Print available) |
| Lesson 8: Comparing Linear Functions | |
| Lesson 9: Modeling with Linear Functions | |
| Lesson 10: Piecewise Linear Functions | Unit 5 Lesson 9: Piecing It Together |
| Sub-Unit 2: Cylinder, Cones, and Spheres | |
| Lesson 11: Filling Containers | |
| Lesson 12: The Volume of a Cylinder | Unit 5 Lesson 10: Volume LabLesson 11: Cylinders Lesson 12: Scaling Cylinders |
| Lesson 13: Determining Dimensions of Cylinders | Unit 5 Lesson 14: Missing Dimensions (Print available) |
| Lesson 14: The Volume of a Cone | Unit 5 Lesson 10: Volume LabLesson 13: Cones |
| Lesson 15: Determining Dimensions of Cones | Unit 5 Lesson 12: Scaling Cylinders Lesson 13: Cones Lesson 14: Missing Dimensions (Print available) |
| Lesson 16: Estimating a Hemisphere | |
| Lesson 17: The Volume of a Sphere | Unit 5 Lesson 15: Spheres |
| Lesson 18: Cylinders, Cones and Spheres | Unit 5 Lesson 15: Practice Day 2 (Print available) |
| Lesson 19: Scaling One Dimension | |
| Lesson 20: Scaling Two Dimensions | |
| Lesson 21: Packing Spheres |
Unit 6: Exponents and Scientific Notation
| Amplify Math | Desmos Math 6–A1 |
|---|---|
| Unit 6: Exponents and Scientific Notation | Unit 7: Exponents and Scienctific Notation |
| Lesson 1: Create a Sierpinski Triangle | |
| Sub-Unit 1: Exponent Rules | |
| Lesson 2: Reviewing Exponents | Unit 7 Lesson 1: Circles Lesson 2: Combining Exponents |
| Lesson 3: Multiplying Powers | Unit 7 Lesson 3: Power Pairs (Print available) Lesson 4: Rewriting Powers |
| Lesson 4: Dividing Powers | Unit 7 Lesson 3: Power Pairs (Print available) Lesson 4: Rewriting Powers |
| Lesson 5: Negative Exponents | Unit 7 Lesson 5: Zero and Negative Exponents |
| Lesson 6: Powers of Powers | Unit 7 Lesson 3: Power Pairs (Print available) |
| Lesson 7: Different Bases, Same Exponent | |
| Lesson 8: Practice with Rational Bases | Unit 7 Practice Day 1 (Print available) |
| Sub-Unit 2: Scientific Notation | |
| Lesson 9: Representing Large Numbers on the Number Line | Unit 7 Lesson 8: Point Zapper |
| Lesson 10: Representing Small Numbers on the Number Line | Unit 7 Lesson 8: Point Zapper |
| Lesson 11: Applications of Arthithmetic with Powers of 10 | Unit 7 Lesson 8: Point Zapper Lesson 9: Use Your Powers |
| Lesson 12: Definition of Scientific Notation | Unit 7 Lesson 10: Solar System Lesson 11: Balance the Scale Lesson 13: Star Power |
| Lesson 13: Multiplying, Dividing, and Estimating with Scientific Notation | Unit 7 Lesson 11: Balance the Scale Lesson 13: Star Power |
| Lesson 14: Adding and Subtracting with Scientific Notation | Unit 7 Lesson 11: Balance the Scale Lesson 12: City Lights Lesson 13: Star Power |
| Lesson 15: Is a Smartphone Smart Enough to Go to the Moon? |
Unit 7: Irrationals and the Pythagorean Theorem
Practice Day 2 (Print available)
| Amplify Math | Desmos Math 6–A1 |
|---|---|
| Unit 7: Irrationals and the Pythagorean Theorem | Unit 8: The Pythagorean Theorem and Irrational Numbers |
| Lesson 1: Sliced Bread | |
| Sub-Unit 1: Rational and Irrational Numbers | |
| Lesson 2: The Square Root | Unit 8 Lesson 2: From Squares to Roots |
| Lesson 3: The Ares of Squares and Their Side Lengths | Unit 8 Lesson 1: Tilted Squares Lesson 3: Between Squares |
| Lesson 4: Estimating Square Roots | Unit 8 Lesson 3: Between Squares Lesson 4: Root Down |
| Lesson 5: The Cube Root | Unit 8 Lesson 5: Filling Cubes |
| Lesson 6: Rational and Irrational Numbers | Unit 8 Lesson 14: Hit the Target |
| Lesson 7: Decimal Representations of Rational Numbers | Unit 8 Lesson 12: Fractions to Decimals |
| Lesson 8: Converting Repeating Decimals Into Fractions | Unit 8 Lesson 13: Decimals to Fractions |
| Sub-Unit 2: The Pythagorean Theorem | |
| Lesson 9: Observing the Pythagorean Theorem | Unit 8 Lesson 6: The Pythagorean Theorem |
| Lesson 10: Proving the Pythagorean Theorem | Unit 8 Lesson 7: Pictures to Prove It |
| Lesson 11: Determining Unknown Side Lengths | Unit 8 Lesson 8: Triangle-Tracing Turtle |
| Lesson 12: Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem | Unit 8 Lesson 9: Make it Right |
| Lesson 13: Distances on the Coordinate Plane (Part 1) | Unit 8 Lesson 11: Pond Hopper |
| Lesson 13: Distances on the Coordinate Plane (Part 1) | Unit 8 Lesson 11: Pond Hopper |
| Lesson 14: Distances on the Coordinate Plane (Part 2) | Unit 8 Lesson 11: Pond Hopper |
| Lesson 15: Applications of the Pythagorean Theorem | Unit 8 Lesson 8: Triangle-Tracing Turtle Lesson 10: Taco Truck |
| Lesson 16: Pythagorean Triples |
Unit 8: Pythagorean Theorem and Irrational Numbers
| Amplify Math | Desmos Math 6–A1 |
|---|---|
| Unit 8: Associations in Data | Unit 6: Associations in Data |
| Lesson 1: Creating a Scatter Plot | Unit 6 Lesson 1: Click Battle |
| Sub-Unit 1: Associations in Data | |
| Lesson 2: Interpreting Points on a Scatter Plot | Unit 6 Lesson 3: Robots |
| Lesson 3: Observing Patterns in a Scatter Plot | Unit 6 Lesson 7: Scatter Plot City |
| Lesson 4: Fitting a Line to Data | Unit 6 Lesson 4: Dapper Cats Lesson 5: Fit Fights |
| Lesson 5: Using a Linear Model | Unit 6 Lesson 6: Interpreting Slopes |
| Lesson 6: Interpreting Slope and y-intercept | Unit 6 Lesson 6: Interpreting Slopes |
| Lesson 7: Analyzing Bivariate Data | Unit 6 Lesson 8: Animal Brains |
| Lesson 8: Looking for Associations | Unit 6 Lesson 9: Tasty Fruit |
| Lesson 9: Using Data Displays to Find Associations | Unit 6 Lesson 10: Finding Associations Lesson 11: Federal Budgets |
Grade 6
Unit 1: Numbers
| GO Math! | Amplify Classroom |
| Module 4: Operations with Fractions | |
| Lesson 4.1: Applying GCF and LCM to Fraction Operations | Unit 4 Lesson 6: Fill the Gap |
| Module 5: Operations with Decimals | |
| Lesson 5.2: Adding and Subtracting Decimals | Unit 5 Lesson 1: Dishing Out Decimals Lesson 2: Decimal Diagrams and Algorithms |
| Lesson 5.4: Dividing Decimals | Unit 5 Lesson 13: Movie Time |
Unit 2: Number Operations
| Module 4: Operations with Fractions | |
| Lesson 4.1: Applying GCF and LCM to Fraction Operations | Unit 4 Lesson 6: Fill the Gap |
| Module 5: Operations with Decimals | |
| Lesson 5.2: Adding and Subtracting Decimals | Unit 5 Lesson 1: Dishing Out Decimals Lesson 2: Decimal Diagrams and Algorithms |
| Lesson 5.4: Dividing Decimals | Unit 5 Lesson 13: Movie Time |
Unit 3: Proportionality, Ratios, and Rates
| Module 6: Representing Ratios and Rates | |
| Lesson 6.1: Ratios | Unit 2 Lesson 1: Pizza Maker |
| Lesson 6.2: Rates | Unit 3 Lesson 6: Soft Serve |
| Lesson 6.3: Using Ratios and Rates to Solve Problems | Unit 2 Lesson 4: Fruit Lab Lesson 10: Disaster Preparation |
| Module 7: Applying Ratios and Rates | |
| Lesson 7.1: Ratios, Rates, Tables, and Graphs | Unit 2 Lesson 4: Fruit Lab Lesson 10: Disaster Preparation Unit 3 Lesson 6: Soft Serve |
| Module 8: Percents | |
| Lesson 8.1 Understanding Percent. | Unit 3 Lesson 9: Lucky Duckies |
Unit 4: Equivalent Expressions
| Module 10: Generating Equivalent Algebraic Expressions | |
| Lesson 10.1: Modeling and Writing Expressions Lesson 10.2: Evaluating Expressions | Unit 6 Lesson 8: Products and Sums Take Away (coming soon!) |
| Lesson 10.3: Generating Equivalent Expressions | Unit 6 Lesson 8: Products and Sums Take Away (coming soon!) |
Unit 5: Equations and Inequalities
| Module 11: Equations and Relationships | |
| Lesson 11.1: Writing Equations to Represent Situations Lesson 11.2: Addition and Subtraction Equations Lesson 11.3: Multiplication and Division Equations | Unit 6 Lesson 1: Weight For It |
| Lesson 11.4: Writing Inequalities | Unit 7 Lesson 7: Tunnel Travels |
| Module 12: Relationships in Two Variables | |
| Lesson 12.2: Independent and Dependent Variables in Tables and Graphs | Unit 6 Lesson 16: Subway Fares Take Away (coming soon!) |
| Lesson 12.3: Writing Equations from Tables. | Unit 6 Lesson 16: Subway Fares Take Away (coming soon!) |
| Lesson 12.4: Representing Algebraic Relationships in Tables and Graphs | Unit 6 Lesson 16: Subway Fares Take Away (coming soon!) |
Unit 6: Relationships in Geometry
| GO Math! | Amplify Classroom |
| Module 13: Area and Polygons | |
| Lesson 13.1: Area of Quadrilaterals | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Shapes on a Plane Lesson 3: Exploring Parallelograms Exploring Parallelograms, Part 2 |
| Lesson 13.2: Area of Triangles | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Shapes on a Plane |
| Lesson 13.4: Area of Polygons | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Shapes on a Plane |
| Module 14: Distance and Area in the Coordinate Plane | |
| Lesson 14.1: Distance in the Coordinate Plane Lesson 14.2: Polygons in the Coordinate Plane | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Shapes on a Plane |
Unit 7: Measurement and Data
| Module 16: Displaying, Analyzing, and Summarizing Data | |
| Lesson 16.1: Measures of Center | Unit 8 Lesson 11: Toy Cars |
| Lesson 16.4: Dot Plots and Data Distribution | Unit 8 Lesson 3: Minimum Wage |
| Lesson 16.5: Histograms | Unit 8 Lesson 5: The Plot Thickens |
Grade 7
Unit 1: The Number System
| GO Math! | Amplify Classroom |
| Module 1: Adding and Subtracting Integers | |
| Lesson 1.2: Adding Integers With Different Signs Lesson 1.3: Subtracting Integers | Unit 5 Lesson 1: Floats and Anchors Lesson 4: Draw Your Own Lesson 10: Integer Puzzles |
| Module 2: Multiplying and Dividing Integers | |
| Lesson 2.1: Multiplying Integers | Unit 5 Lesson 10: Integer Puzzles |
| Lesson 2.2: Dividing Integers | Unit 5 Lesson 10: Integer Puzzles |
| Module 3: Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 3.2: Adding Rational Numbers Lesson 3.3: Subtracting Rational Numbers | Unit 5 Lesson 4: Draw Your Own |
Unit 2: Ratios and Proportional Relationships
| Module 4: Rates and Proportionality | |
| Lesson 4.1: Unit Rates | Unit 2 Lesson 6: Two and Two |
| Lesson 4.2: Constant Rates of Change | Unit 2 Lesson 1: Paint Lesson 6: Two and Two |
| Lesson 4.3: Proportional Relationships and Graphs | Unit 2 Lesson 1: Paint Lesson 6: Two and Two |
| Module 5: Proportions and Percent | |
| Lesson 5.1: Percent Increase and Decrease | Unit 4 Lesson 1: Mosaics Lesson 5: Percent Machines |
| Lesson 5.3: Applications of Percent | Unit 4 Lesson 12: Posing Percent Problems(coming soon!) |
Unit 3: Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities
| Module 6: Expressions and Equations | |
| Lesson 6.3: Writing Two-Step Equations | Unit 6 Lesson 10: Collect the Squares |
| Module 6: Expressions and Equations | |
| Lesson 7.2: Writing Two-Step Inequalities | Unit 6 Lesson 16: Shira the Sheep |
| Lesson 7.3: Solving Two-Step Inequalities | Unit 6 Lesson 16: Shira the Sheep |
Unit 4: Geometry
| Module 8: Modeling Geometric Figures | |
| Lesson 8.1: Similar Shapes and Scale Drawings | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Scaling Machines Lesson 7: Will It Fit? Unit 7 Lesson 5: Can You Build It? |
| Lesson 8.2: Geometric Drawings | Unit 1 Lesson 7: Will It Fit? |
| Lesson 8.4: Angle Relationships | Unit 7 Lesson 2: Friendly Angles Lesson 4: Missing Measures |
| Module 9: Circumference, Area, and Volume | |
| Lesson 9.1: Circumference | Unit 3 Lesson 3: Measuring Around |
| Lesson 9.2: Area of Circles | Unit 3 Lesson 8: Area Challenges |
| Lesson 9.3: Area of Composite Figures | Unit 3 Lesson 8: Area Challenges |
Unit 5: Statistics
| Module 10: Random Samples and Populations | |
| Lesson 10.1: Populations and Samples | Unit 8 Lesson 10: Crab Island |
| Module 11: Analyzing and Comparing Data | |
| Lesson 11.3: Using Statistical Measures to Compare Populations | Unit 8 Lesson 10: Crab Island |
Unit 6: Probability
| Module 13: Theoretical Probability and Simulations | |
| Lesson 13.1: Theoretical Probability of Simple Events | Unit 8 Lesson 1: How Likely? Lesson 2: Prob-bear-bilities |
Grade 8
Unit 1: Real Numbers, Exponents, and Scientific Notation
| GO Math! | Amplify Classroom |
|---|---|
| Module 1: Real Numbers | |
| Lesson 1.3: Ordering Real Numbers | Unit 8 Lesson 4: Root Down |
| Module 2: Exponents and Scientific Notation | |
| Lesson 2.1: Integer Exponents | Unit 7 Lesson 1: Circles Lesson 3: Power Pairs |
| Lesson 2.4: Operations with Scientific Notation | Unit 7 Lesson 9: Specific and Scientific Lesson 11: Balance the Scale |
Unit 2: Proportional and Nonproportional Relationships and Functions
| Module 3: Proportional Relationships | |
| Lesson 3.1: Representing Proportional Relationships. | Unit 3 Lesson 1: Turtle Time Trials |
| Lesson 3.2: Rate of Change and Slope | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Flags Lesson 5: The Tortoise and the Hare |
| Module 4: Nonproportional Relationships | |
| Lesson 4.1: Representing Linear Nonproportional Relationships | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Flags |
| Lesson 4.2: Determining Slope and y-intercept | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Flags |
| Lesson 4.3: Graphing Linear Nonproportional Relationships using Slope and y-intercept. | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Flags |
| Lesson 4.4: Proportional and Nonproportional Situations | Unit 3 Lesson 1: Turtle Time Trials |
| Module 5: Writing Linear Equations | |
| Lesson 5.1: Writing Linear Equations from Situations and Graphs | Unit 3 Lesson 4: Flags |
| Lesson 5.3: Linear Relationships and Bivariate Data | Unit 6 Lesson 3: Robots Lesson 4: Dapper Cats Lesson 6: Find the Fit |
| Module 6: Functions | |
| Lesson 6.1: Identifying and Representing Functions | Unit 5 Lesson 2: Guess My Rule Lesson 5: The Tortoise and the Hare |
| Lesson 6.3: Comparing Functions | Unit 5 Lesson 5: The Tortoise and the Hare |
| Lesson 6.4: Analyzing Graphs | Unit 5 Lesson 1: Turtle Crossing Lesson 5: The Tortoise and the Hare |
Unit 3: Solving Equations and Systems of Equations
| Module 7: Solving Linear Equations | |
| Lesson 7.1: Equations with the Variable on Both Sides | Unit 4 Lesson 5: Equation Roundtable |
| Lesson 7.2: Equations with Rational Numbers | |
| Lesson 7.3: Equations with the Distributive Property | Unit 4 Lesson 5: Equation Roundtable |
| Module 8: Solving Systems of Linear Equations | |
| Lesson 8.1: Solving Systems of Linear Equations by Graphing. | Unit 4 Lesson 11: Make Them Balance Lesson 12: Line Zapper |
Unit 4: Transformational Geometry
| Module 9: Transformations and Congruence | |
| Lesson 9.1: Properties of Translations Lesson 9.2: Properties of Reflections Lesson 9.3: Properties of Rotations | Unit 1 Lesson 1: Transformers Lesson 2: Spinning, Flipping, Sliding Lesson 4: Moving Day |
| Module 10: Transformations and Similarity | |
| Lesson 10.1: Properties of Dilations | Unit 2 Lesson 2: Dilation Mini Golf Lesson 6: Social Scavenger Hunt |
| Lesson 10.3: Similar Figures | Unit 2 Lesson 1: Sketchy Dilations Lesson 6: Social Scavenger Hunt |
Unit 5: Measurement Geometry
| Module 11: Angle Relationships in Parallel Lines and Triangles | |
| Lesson 11.1: Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal. | Unit 1 Lesson 12: Puzzling It Out |
| Lesson 11.2: Angle Theorems for Triangles | Unit 1 Lesson 12: Puzzling It Out |
| Lesson 11.3: Angle-Angle Similarity | Unit 2 Lesson 6: Social Scavenger Hunt |
| Module 12: Pythagorean Theorem | |
| Lesson 12.1: The Pythagorean Theorem | Unit 8 Lesson 8: Triangle-Tracing Turtle Lesson 10: Taco Truck |
| Module 13: Volume | |
| Lesson 13.1: Volume of Cylinders | Unit 5 Lesson 11: Cylinders |
| Lesson 13.2: Volume of Cones | Unit 5 Lesson 13: Cones |
Unit 6: Statistics
| Module 14: Scatter Plots | |
| Lesson 14.1: Scatter Plots and Association | Unit 6 Lesson 3: Robots |
| Lesson 14.2: Trend Lines and Predictions | Unit 6 Lesson 4: Dapper Cats Lesson 6: Find the Fit |
| Module 15: Two-Way Tables | |
| Lesson 15.2: Two-Way Relative Frequency Tables | Unit 6 Lesson 11: Finding Associations |
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Students take on the role of a scientist or engineer every day.
Amplify Science is a blended curriculum developed to align with the New York City PK–8 Science Scope and Sequence that meets the New York State Science Learning Standards.
Amplify Science for grades K–8 has been rated all-green by EdReports.
Check out the New York City Resource Site for supporting resources designed for the New York City Department of Education Amplify Science adoption for grades K–8.

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What sets Amplify Science apart?
- Aligned to the New York City PK–8 Science Scope and Sequence, and meets New York State Science Learning Standards.
- State-of-the-art, highly-engaging curriculum that invites students to take on the role of a scientist or engineer in every unit to solve relevant real-world problems.
- Flexible, truly blended program that combines comprehensive print components and compelling online content with hands-on learning in every unit.
- Robust teacher support for ease of use by a wide range of teachers in diverse classroom contexts, with carefully crafted lessons, standards alignment, differentiation strategies, and ELL supports throughout the program.
- Embedded assessments throughout the program, including both formative and summative assessments for every grade level.
- Authored by the industry-leading science curriculum team at U.C. Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science, who have 50 years of experience in K–12 science education and who will continue to enhance and update the program for years to come. To learn more about how the Lawrence Hall of Science collected research, designed the curriculum, and field tested the program with teachers, download our research base document.
The Amplify Science approach
The scope and sequence of the program is designed to show that scientific concepts are interconnected and multifaceted. Each unit focuses on a specific learning goal in the form of an overarching unit question. Rather than following linear steps in an experiment, the program leaves room for students to make connections across concepts and make their own discoveries. In this way, Amplify Science replicates the realities and ambiguities of scientific research and thinking.
Each course in Amplify Science K–5 consists of 3–4 units, with each unit containing 22 lessons. Each lesson in grades K and 1 is written for a 45-minute session, while lessons in grades 2–5 are written for 60-minute sessions. Teachers can always expand or contract the timing to fit their needs.
Each course in Amplify Science 6–8 consists of 7-9 units, with each core unit containing 19 lessons, each launch unit containing 11 lessons, and each engineering internship containing 10 lessons. Each lesson in grades 6–8 is written for a 45-minute session. Teachers can always expand or contract the timing to fit their needs..
Download the K–5 unit sequence
Download the 6–8 unit sequence
Components overview
Amplify Science blends physical materials with a suite of digital tools, presenting students with the resources they need to investigate real-world problems, and empowering and supporting teachers as they lead instruction and gain insight into student growth and progress.
Grades K–5
- Student Investigation Notebooks (K–2) for every unit allow students to interact with content while taking notes, answering questions, and conducting investigations. Review a sample from the Grade 2 Plant and Animal Relationships unit.
- Student Books enhance science topics and allow students to practice reading within the science content area.
- Instructional materials for teachers. The Amplify Science curriculum website hosts all lesson content, media, digital simulations, and more, and is the primary tool “open” for teachers during class time. Print Teacher’s Guides are included. You can view complete unit samples by accessing the curriculum at the bottom of this page.
- Robust digital simulations and digital applications, developed exclusively for the Amplify Science program. Supported devices include: iPad 3+, Chromebook, Windows PC, and MacBook.
- Unit Kits for each unit in the program including consumable and nonconsumable hands-on materials, printed classroom display materials, and the students books.
- Embedded formative and summative assessments are meant to support and guide student instruction.
- Pacing guides have been developed for teachers to support the implementation of the program.
Grades 6–8
- New York City Student Editions enhance science topics and allow students to practice reading within the science content area.
- Special “NYC Companion Lessons” directly target the additional standards in NYSSLS not found in the NGSS.
- Instructional materials for teachers. The Amplify Science curriculum website hosts all lesson content, media, digital simulations, and more, and is the primary tool “open” for teachers during class time. Print Teacher’s Guides are included. You can view complete unit samples by accessing the curriculum at the bottom of this page.
- Robust digital simulations and digital applications, developed exclusively for the Amplify Science program. Supported devices include: iPad 3+, Chromebook, Windows PC, and MacBook.
- Unit Kits for each unit in the program including consumable and nonconsumable hands-on materials and printed classroom display materials for 5 uses of a class of 40 students.
- Embedded formative and summative assessments are meant to support and guide student instruction.
- Pacing guides have been developed for teachers to support the implementation of the program.
Review grades K–5
Amplify Science K-5 is an elementary science curriculum that provides teachers with the tools and practices necessary to meet the expectations of the NYSED P–12 Science Learning Standards. The program also aligns to the new NYCDOE PK–8 Science Scope and Sequence. Learn more about Amplify Science K-5 by reviewing the following::
- NYS Correlations (K–5)
- Reading and Literacy Integration
- Assessments
- Hands-On and Print Materials (“Kits”)
- Digital Simulations (Grades 4-5)
- Supporting ELLs
- Spanish resources
- Phenomena in Grades K–5
Click the orange button below to access the digital Teacher’s Guide and begin your review.
Review grades 6–8
Amplify Science 6–8 New York City Edition is a new blended curriculum developed to align to 100 percent of the New York City PK–8 Science Scope and Sequence 2018 that meets 100 percent of the New York State Science Learning Standards. Learn more about Amplify Science 6-8 New York City Edition by reviewing the following:
Click the orange button below to access the digital Teacher’s Guide and begin your review.
Watch an overview
Watch curriculum experts walk through the Amplify Science K–5 and 6–8 programs and share information on how you can start to make the shifts to the NGSS with a literacy-rich approach to science instruction.
Ready to order?
When you are ready to place an order for Amplify Science, please reference the ordering checklist on the Core Curriculum Ordering Guide, and then head to:
- The Core Curriculum Ordering Tool for Core Curriculum materials (Grades K–8)
- Shop DOE for optional materials (Grades K–5)
- Investigation Notebook Price List
Welcome, Iowa reviewers!
Designed from the ground up for the NGSS to teach students to think, read, write, and argue like real scientists and engineers, Amplify Science combines literacy-rich activities with hands-on learning and digital tools to engage students in exploring compelling phenomena in every unit.
A powerful partnership
Amplify Science was developed by the science education experts at UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science and the digital learning team at Amplify.
Learn more about the Lawrence Hall of Science.
Grades K–5 overview
Each unit focuses on a specific learning goal in the form of an overarching unit question. Rather than following linear steps in an experiment, the program leaves room for students to make connections across concepts and make their own discoveries. In this way, Amplify Science replicates the realities and ambiguities of scientific research and thinking.
- Phenomena in grades K–5
- Program structure
- K–5 unit sequence
- NGSS correlations
- Hear from K–5 teachers
Amplify Science blends physical materials with a suite of digital tools, presenting students with the resources they need to investigate real-world problems, and empowering and supporting teachers as they lead instruction and gain insight into student growth and progress.
- Student Books in K–5
- Assessments in K–5
- Hands-on and print materials (“kits”)
- Digital simulations (grades 4–8)
- Spanish resources K–5
Student Investigation Notebooks for every unit allow students to interact with content while taking notes, answering questions, and conducting investigations. Review a sample from the Grade 2 Plant and Animal Relationships unit.
Student Books enhance science topics and allow students to practice reading within the science content area.
Instructional materials for teachers. The Amplify Science curriculum website hosts all lesson content, media, digital simulations, and more, and is the primary tool “open” for teachers during class time. You can view complete unit samples by accessing the curriculum at the bottom of this page.
Robust digital simulations (grades 4–5) and digital applications, developed exclusively for the Amplify Science program. Supported devices include: iPad 3+, Chromebook, Windows PC, and MacBook.
Unit kits for each unit in the program including consumable and nonconsumable hands-on materials, printed classroom display materials, and the students books.
Embedded formative and summative assessments are meant to support and guide student instruction.
Grades 6–8 overview
Each unit focuses on a specific learning goal in the form of an overarching unit question. Rather than following linear steps in an experiment, the program leaves room for students to make connections across concepts and make their own discoveries. In this way, Amplify Science replicates the realities and ambiguities of scientific research and thinking.
- Phenomena in grades 6–8
- Program structure
- Recommended Iowa 6–8 unit sequence
- NGSS correlations
- Why Amplify Science?
Amplify Science blends physical materials with a suite of digital tools, presenting students with the resources they need to investigate real-world problems, and empowering and supporting teachers as they lead instruction and gain insight into student growth and progress.
- Assessments in 6–8
- Hands-on and print materials (“kits”)
- Digital simulations (grades 4–8)
- Spanish resources 6–8
Student Investigation Notebooks for every unit allow students to interact with content while taking notes, answering questions, and conducting investigations. Review a sample from Metabolism.
Instructional materials for teachers. The Amplify Science curriculum website hosts all lesson content, media, digital simulations, and more, and is the primary tool “open” for teachers during class time. You can view complete unit samples by accessing the curriculum at the bottom of this page.
Robust digital simulations and digital applications, developed exclusively for the Amplify Science program. Supported devices include: iPad 3+, Chromebook, Windows PC, and MacBook.
Unit kits for each unit in the program including consumable and non-consumable hands-on materials, and printed classroom display materials.
Embedded formative and summative assessments are meant to support and guide student instruction.
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Tammy Tvetene
District Manager
Email: ttvetene@amplify.com
Phone: (314) 619-8846
Amplify Science
Amplify Science is Chicago Public Schools’ recommended K–8 core science instructional material. Looking for support ordering? Contact ScienceCPS@amplify.com or (855) 559-5757.

A powerful partnership
Amplify Science was developed by the science education experts at UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science and the digital learning team at Amplify.
Learn more about the Lawrence Hall of Science.
Looking for pricing or ordering support? Email scienceCPS@amplify.com or call (855) 559-5757.
What sets Amplify Science apart?
- Authored by the industry-leading science curriculum team at U.C. Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science, who have 50 years of experience in K–12 science education and who will continue to enhance and update the program for years to come
- New curriculum built to meet 100% of the Next Generation Science Standards
- State-of-the-art, highly engaging curriculum that invites students to take on the role of a scientist or engineer in every unit to solve relevant real-world problems
- Flexible, truly blended program that combines comprehensive print components and compelling online content with hands-on learning in every unit
- Robust teacher support for ease of use by a wide range of teachers in diverse classroom contexts, with carefully crafted lessons, standards alignment, differentiation strategies, and ELL supports throughout the program
- Embedded assessments throughout the program, including both formative and summative assessments for every grade level
Grades K–5 overview
Each unit focuses on a specific learning goal in the form of an overarching unit question. Rather than following linear steps in an experiment, the program leaves room for students to make connections across concepts and make their own discoveries. In this way, Amplify Science replicates the realities and ambiguities of scientific research and thinking.
Learn more about the program structure
Download the K–5 unit sequence
NGSS correlations
Hear from K–5 teachers
Amplify Science blends physical materials with a suite of digital tools, presenting students with the resources they need to investigate real-world problems, and empowering and supporting teachers as they lead instruction and gain insight into student growth and progress.
- Student Investigation Notebooks for every unit allow students to interact with content while taking notes, answering questions, and conducting investigations. Review a sample from the Grade 2 Plant and Animal Relationships unit.
- Student Books enhance science topics and allow students to practice reading within the science content area.
- Instructional materials for teachers. The Amplify Science curriculum website hosts all lesson content, media, digital simulations, and more, and is the primary tool “open” for teachers during class time. You can view complete unit samples by accessing the curriculum at the bottom of this page.
- Robust digital simulations (grades 4–5) and digital applications, developed exclusively for the Amplify Science program. Supported devices include: iPad 3+, Chromebook, Windows PC, and MacBook.
- Unit kits for each unit in the program including consumable and nonconsumable hands-on materials, printed classroom display materials, and the students books.
- Embedded formative and summative assessments are meant to support and guide student instruction.
Grades 6–8 overview
Each unit focuses on a specific learning goal in the form of an overarching unit question. Rather than following linear steps in an experiment, the program leaves room for students to make connections across concepts and make their own discoveries. In this way, Amplify Science replicates the realities and ambiguities of scientific research and thinking.
Beginning in school year 2018-19, Chicago Public Schools recommends that schools follow the integrated scope and sequence for middle school science. The decision to shift from discipline-specific to integrated science was informed by a group of 30 CPS middle school science teachers who served on an Advisory Team during school year 2017-18 as well as guidance from other state and national committees with expertise in implementing the Next Generation Science Standards. Amplify’s 6–8 curriculum and CPS’ 2018-19 REACH Performance Tasks align to the integrated scope and sequence.
Learn about the program structure
Download the 6–8 unit sequence
NGSS correlations
Learn about the flexible, blended program
Amplify Science blends physical materials with a suite of digital tools, presenting students with the resources they need to investigate real-world problems, and empowering and supporting teachers as they lead instruction and gain insight into student growth and progress.
- Student Investigation Notebooks for every unit allow students to interact with content while taking notes, answering questions, and conducting investigations. Review a sample from Metabolism.
- Instructional materials for teachers. The Amplify Science curriculum website hosts all lesson content, media, digital simulations, and more, and is the primary tool “open” for teachers during class time. You can view complete unit samples by accessing the curriculum at the bottom of this page.
- Robust digital simulations and digital applications, developed exclusively for the Amplify Science program. Supported devices include: iPad 3+, Chromebook, Windows PC, and MacBook.
- Unit kits for each unit in the program including consumable and nonconsumable hands-on materials, and printed classroom display materials.
- Embedded formative and summative assessments are meant to support and guide student instruction.
Science and literacy
The Amplify Science program capitalizes on the wealth of opportunities provided by science to learn about the world via reading and writing, and on the strong link between science and literacy practices. It is a core science program designed for three-dimensional learning and can also be considered a supplementary literacy program because it addresses the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts (ELA) related to disciplinary literacy.
Through its integration of literacy practices authentic to science, Amplify Science addresses the ELA Anchor Standards as well as the standards for Reading Informational Text, Writing, Listening/Speaking, and Language that are related to acquiring and using academic vocabulary. (Less discipline-specific reading standards, such as the “Reading: Foundational Skills” and “Reading: Literature,” fall outside the purview of the Amplify Science program. Please see each unit’s Overview of Standards and Goals for a list of which Common Core ELA standards are addressed in the program.)
The focus of literacy instruction in Amplify Science is on increasing students’ facility with reading informational text, engaging in scientific discussions, and writing scientific explanations and arguments. The program takes into account the specific needs of young students as they are learning to read, write, and discuss science concepts, but does not take full responsibility for teaching basic skills such as phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, or writing mechanics.
Access and equity
Diversity in the science and engineering classroom is an asset. It offers countless opportunities for creativity and innovation and opens the door to multiple perspectives and cross-cultural understanding. Historically, however, certain groups of students — including ethnically diverse students, English learners, standard English learners, students with disabilities, girls and young women, foster children and youth, and students experiencing poverty — have not had equitable opportunities for intellectually stimulating, language-rich, and culturally relevant science and engineering education. The vision of the new standards is “all standards, all students.” Amplify Science is designed to fulfill this vision by providing quality and supportive materials for teachers so that every student — regardless of their background, where they live, the language they speak at home, or their learning characteristics — has access to and benefits from deep and engaging science and engineering learning opportunities. Two overarching conceptual frameworks informed Amplify Science’s approach to ensuring access and equity for all students: Universal Design for Learning and Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching.
Start your review
Amplify Science is not a textbook. Each lesson in the program consists of a sequence of activities that engage students with a variety of materials, including scientific texts, hands-on materials, digital simulations, engaging media, formative and summative assessments, and so much more. Learn more about the grades K–8 program by reviewing the following pages:
- Reading and literacy integration in K–5
- Assessments in K–5
- Assessments in 6–8
- Hands-on and print materials (“kits”)
- Digital simulations (grades 4–8)
- Supporting ELLs
- Spanish resources K–5
- Spanish resources 6–8
Looking for support ordering?
ScienceCPS@amplify.com
(855) 559-5757
Winter Professional Learning Schedule for Chicago Public Schools
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Integrating AI in the science classroom

How can you create new science lesson plans, adjust assessments, and design labs using only objects kids have at home?
Just ask—ChatGPT, that is.
In this recent Science Connections webinar, Science Connections podcast host Eric Cross tackles the topic of ChatGPT for teachers, along with other specific AI tools that (when used with your existing standards-aligned curriculum) can help make teaching more efficient, targeted, and interactive.
AI for science can save teachers time, deepen student engagement, and inspire collaboration and creativity all around, says Science Connections podcast host Eric Cross.
Eric describes some of the many ways science teachers can use AI in the classroom—as both shortcut and partner. “We can use it for personalized learning,” he begins. “We can generate questions and give instant feedback. We can differentiate. We can support our students with special learning needs. And that’s just a start. The more you use it to collaborate with other educators, the more fun it becomes.”
Generative artificial intelligence 101
There are a lot of AI tools out there, but the new one is generative AI. As Eric explains, the difference is that generative AI—unlike, say, AI that gives you driving directions—creates something that didn’t exist before: text, images, music, and, yes, new science experiences for the classroom.
As with any technology, the practically infinite uses and applications of AI raise important questions about accuracy, equity, biases, and more. In this webinar, though, we focus only on AI’s practical uses for science teachers.
Generative AI relies on and responds to prompts.
You’re telling it to do something and it communicates back to you in human language. The way you craft your prompts determines your output, so the better your prompt is, the better your output.
– Eric Cross
Host, Science Connections; Adjunct Professor of Learning and Technology, University of San Diego
Let’s see what AI has produced for Eric as a science educator, and the kind of prompts he’s used to get there.
How science teachers can use AI to prepare and engage
Teachers can use generative AI to create personalized learning materials, generate more practice questions, and explain topics at any level and depth.
In this webinar, Eric focuses on the AI tools that have given him the most mileage as an educator and that he thinks can provide the most value for others.
These include:
- Modifying assessments when students have used all the ones that a curriculum provides. A sample prompt: “You are a science teacher creating an assessment for middle school students. I will upload an assessment. Please recreate it in a similar tone and voice as the original with a similar level of rigor.” Response: Brand-new multiple-choice and written questions on the same topics, all adhering to the same NGSS. With a little more back and forth, Eric will have the exact number, style, and focus of questions that he needs—along with an answer key.
- Creating relevant, accessible lab ideas. Eric prompts AI for lab and hands-on project ideas to fit exact specs: topic, grade level, desired outcome, and objects found in a typical classroom or home. Result: Hands-on activity ideas students can do at home, like exploring lung capacity with a balloon and a ruler (delivered by AI complete with full supply lists, instructions, and more).
- Helping students connect. To support a student who’s stuck, you might prompt the AI by saying: “I’m a fifth grader and my teacher is talking about claim evidence reasoning and I don’t really understand it. Can you explain it to me in a way that would help me? And then: “Now can you help me explain it to my mom, but in Spanish?”
Eric also uses AI to interpret graphs, collate student data, build graphic organizers, create science games, and more.
Is everything AI provides him flawless and 100% accurate? No, says Eric. “You have to vet, and it helps to have a high-quality curriculum already in place. But it gets me 80 to 90% there—and that’s pretty good.”
More to explore
- Hear more about AI from Eric and fellow educators Donnie Piercey and Jennifer Roberts in Science Connections, Season 3, Episode 4: Using AI and ChatGPT in the science classroom
- Science Connections podcast
- Amplify Science webinars
Amplify Desmos Math California
Welcome, Algebra 1 Reviewers!
We’re honored to introduce you to Amplify Desmos Math California. We’re confident you’ll find this comprehensive program to be a powerful tool for bringing the vision of the California Math Framework to life in classrooms across the state.
Please start with the video on the right to learn how to navigate the program and access key features referenced within our submission. Below you’ll find additional resources to support your review.
Your Review Samples
As a curriculum that incorporates both print and digital resources, it’s important that you explore both our physical materials (delivered to you in grade-specific tubs) and our digital materials (accessible through our platform). We invite you to explore both types of resources using the instructions and tips below.
Print Samples
Your print samples should have arrived in grade-specific tubs with a copy of your Reviewer Binder contained within the Algebra 1 shipping box. As you begin the process of organizing your materials, please refer to the inventory checklist found inside the tub as well as within your Reviewer Binder.
Digital Samples
In order to access your digital samples, you’ll need to log into our platform using your unique login credentials found on a Digital Access Flyer inside of your Reviewer Binder. Once you have located the flyer:
- Click the orange button below to access the platform.
- Click “Log in with Amplify.”
- Enter the username and password provided on your Digital Access Flyer.
Navigation Tips
Below you will find helpful tips for navigating Amplify Desmos Math California. We recommend reading these pages alongside the program’s print materials and digital experience to gain a deeper understanding of the program.
Click the links below to read about navigating program features including:
Built for California
The Amplify Desmos Math California program is designed around the vision articulated in the California Mathematics Framework to enable all California students to become powerful users of mathematics. Our program incorporates the latest research in student learning, meaning that we:
- Focus on the Big Ideas: Amplify Desmos Math California’s courses, units, and lessons are centered around the Big Ideas. Big Ideas, like standards, are not considered in isolation. In addition to each unit and lesson’s focal Big Ideas, Amplify Desmos Math California also provides connections among the Big Ideas across units and lessons.
- Center on open and engaging tasks: Amplify Desmos Math California is grounded in engaging tasks meant to address students’ often-asked question: “Why am I learning this?” Students are invited into learning with low-floor, high-ceiling tasks that provide an entry point for all. Open tasks in Amplify Desmos Math California provide the space for students to try on multiple strategies and represent their thinking in different ways, and allow student explanation and discussion to serve as the center of the classroom. All lessons offer both print and digital representations of lessons.
- Provide enhanced digital experiences: Amplify Desmos Math California includes digitally-enhanced lesson activities, incorporating interactive digital tools alongside print materials. These purposefully-placed resources allow students to visualize mathematical concepts, receive actionable feedback while practicing, encounter personalized learning support from an onscreen tutor, and engage in discussions about their thinking and approaches.
- Treat core instruction and differentiation as integral partners: The Amplify Desmos Math California curriculum provides teachers with lessons, strategies, and resources to eliminate barriers and increase access to grade-level content without reducing the mathematical demand of tasks. Every activity has multiple entry points to ensure that all students are supported and challenged. Intervention and personalized learning activities are directly connected to lesson content and offer students the individualized support as they dive into the mathematics.
Category 1: Mathematics Content/Alignment with the Standards
Standards Map
Linked here is the Standards Map for Amplify Desmos Math California for Algebra 1.
Evaluation Criteria Map
Linked here is the Evaluation Criteria Map Algebra 1. Please note that you will need to be logged into the digital platform to access the links in the Evaluation Criteria Map.
Standards for Mathematical Practice
Linked here is the alignment of Amplify Desmos Math California to the Standards for Mathematical Practice at Algebra 1.
Drivers of Investigation and Content Connections
Amplify Desmos Math California incorporates the Drivers of Investigation (DIs) and Content Connection (CCs) throughout the program. Throughout the year, students engage with open and authentic tasks of varying durations — from lesson activities to unit-level Explore lessons and longer course-level Investigations. Every lesson and investigation opportunity is grounded around the why, how, and what of the learning experience, and helps teachers bring mathematical concepts to life.

California English Language Development Standards
Linked here is the alignment of Amplify Desmos Math California to the California English Language Development Standards for Algebra 1.
California Environmental Principles and Concepts
Select lessons, performance tasks, and investigations across grade levels in Amplify Desmos Math California are aligned to one or more of the California Environmental Principles and Concepts. Click this link to view how the California Environmental Principles and Concepts are represented in Amplify Desmos Math California Algebra 1.
Category 2: Program Organization
Amplify Desmos Math California 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.
Big Ideas
Amplify Desmos Math California’s courses, units, and lessons are centered around the Big Ideas. Big Ideas, like standards, are not considered in isolation. In addition to each unit and lesson’s focal Big Ideas, Amplify Desmos Math California also provides connections among the Big Ideas across units and lessons. Please refer to Keeping the Big Ideas at the Center, linked here, for the Amplify Desmos Math California Algebra 1 lesson design and alignment to the Big Ideas.
Program Structure
Amplify Desmos Math California combines the best of problem-based lessons, intervention, personalized practice, and assessments into a coherent and engaging experience for both students and teachers.

Lessons and units in Amplify Desmos Math California are designed around a Proficiency Progression, a model that steps out problem-based learning by systematically building students’ curiosity into lasting grade-level understanding.

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.
Scope and Sequence
Below you can view the scope and sequence for Amplify Desmos Math California Algebra 1.

Lesson Design and Structure

Amplify Desmos Math California is designed with a structured approach to problem-based learning that systematically builds on students’ curiosity and allows students to grapple with the Big Ideas of the California Framework. Every lesson activity is organized into a Launch, Monitor, Connect format.
Launch: The launch is a short, whole-class conversation that creates a need or excitement, provides clarity, or helps students connect their prior knowledge or personal experience, which ensures that everyone has access to the upcoming work.
Monitor: As students work individually, in pairs, or in groups, teachers explore student thinking, ask questions, and provide support to help move the conversations closer to the intended math learning goal.
Connect: Teachers connect students’ ideas to the key learning goals of the lesson, facilitating class discussions that help synthesize and solidify the Big Ideas.
Each lesson within Amplify Desmos Math California follows the same structure.
Warm-Up: Every Amplify Desmos Math California lesson begins with a whole class Warm-Up. Warm-Ups are an invitational Instructional Routine intended to provide a social moment at the start of the lesson in which every student has an opportunity to contribute. Warm-Ups may build fluency or highlight a strategy that may be helpful in the current lesson or act as an invitation into the math of the lesson.
Lesson Activities: Each lesson includes one or two activities. These activities are the heart of each lesson. Students notice, wonder, explore, calculate, predict, measure, explain their thinking, use math to settle disputes, create challenges for their classmates, and more. Guidance is provided to help teachers launch, monitor, and connect student thinking over the course of the activity.
Synthesis and Show What You Know: The Synthesis is an opportunity for the teacher and students to pull all the learning of the lesson together into a lesson takeaway. Students engage in a facilitated discussion to consolidate and refine their ideas about the learning goals, and the teacher synthesizes students’ learning. Show What You Know is a daily assessment opportunity for students to show what they know about the learning goals and what they are still learning.
Practice and Differentiation: Daily practice problems for the day’s lesson are included both online and in the print Student Edition, including fluency, test practice, and spiral review.

Routines
Amplify Desmos Math California features a variety of lesson routines. Instructional routines and Math Language Routines (MLRs) are used within lessons to highlight student-developed language and ideas, cultivate conversation, support mathematical sense-making, and promote meta-cognition. Both are called out at point-of-use within the Teacher Edition and Teacher Presentation Screens. Below are the types of routines used throughout the Amplify Desmos Math California curriculum:
Math Language Routines
- MLR1: Stronger and Clearer Each Time
- MLR2: Collect and Display
- MLR3: Critique, Correct, Clarify
- MLR5: Co-Craft Questions
- MLR6: Three Reads
- MLR7: Compare and Connect
- MLR 8: Discussion Supports
Instructional Routines
- Decide and Defend
- Notice and Wonder
- Number Talk
- Tell a Story
- Think-Pair-Share
- Which One Doesn’t Belong?
Category 3: Assessments
A variety of performance data in Amplify Desmos Math California provides evidence of student learning, while helping students bolster their skills and understanding.
Unit-Level Assessment
Amplify Desmos Math California has embedded unit assessments that offer key insights into students’ conceptual understanding of math. These assessments provide regular, actionable information about how students are thinking about and processing math, with both auto-scoring and in-depth rubrics that help teachers anticipate and respond to students’ learning needs.
Pre-Unit Check: Each unit begins with a formative assessment designed to identify the student skills that will be particularly relevant to the upcoming unit. This check is agnostic to the standards covered in the following unit and serves not as a deficit-based acknowledgment of what students do not know, but rather as an affirmation of the knowledge and skills with which students come in.
End-of-Unit Assessment: Students engage with rigorous grade-level mathematics through a variety of formats and tasks in the summative End-of-Unit Assessment. A combination of auto-scored (when completed digitally) and rubric-scored items provides deep insights into student thinking. All Amplify Desmos Math California End-of-Unit Assessments include two forms.
Sub-Unit Quizzes: Sub-Unit Quizzes are formative assessments embedded regularly in Algebra 1. In these checks, students are assessed on a subset of conceptual understandings from the unit, with rubrics that help illuminate students’ current understanding and provide guidance for responding to student thinking.
Performance Tasks: At the end of each unit there is a summative assessment performance task provided to evaluate students’ proficiency with the concepts and skills addressed in the unit.
Lesson-Level Assessments
Amplify Desmos Math California lessons include daily moments of assessment to provide valuable evidence of learning for both the teacher and student. Beyond formative, summative, and benchmark assessments, students also have opportunities for self-reflection with Watch Your Knowledge Grow. Students take ownership of their learning by reflecting and tracking their progress before and after each unit.
Show What You Know: Each lesson has a daily formative assessment focused on one of the key concepts in the lesson. Show What You Know moments are carefully designed to minimize completion time for students while maximizing daily teacher insights to attend to student needs during the following class.
Responsive Feedback™: Teachers have the ability to see and provide in-the-moment feedback as students progress through a digital lesson. Responsive Feedback motivates students and engages them in the learning process.
Diagnostic Assessment
Every grade level features an asset-based diagnostic assessment designed to be administered at the beginning of the year. Delivered digitally and to the whole class, our diagnostic assessment is uniquely designed to reveal underlying math thinking and identify what students know about grade-level math. With data beyond just right and wrong, teachers have the type of deeper level of insights need to take the right next step.
CAASPP-Aligned Assessment Preparation
Amplify Desmos Math is designed to support students’ mathematical development through problem-based learning, differentiation, and embedded assessments. The program’s emphasis on conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application aligns with the mathematical practices and content standards assessed by the CAASPP.
Amplify Desmos Math California includes a CAASPP-aligned Item Bank. This standards-aligned bank of questions allows teachers to filter and search by grade and standard to find items. Once assigned on the digital platform, students will experience CAASPP-like practice with the online digital tools.
Data and Reporting
Amplify Desmos Math California provides teachers and administrators with unified reporting and insights so that educators have visibility into what students know about grade-level math—and can plan instruction accordingly for the whole class, small groups, and individual students. Reporting functionality integrates unit assessments, lesson assessments, diagnostic data and progress monitoring for a comprehensive look at student learning. Program reports show proficiency and growth by domain, cluster, standard, and priority concept using performance data from unit assessments, then highlight areas of potential student need to allow teachers to modify their instruction and target differentiated support.
Administrator reporting provides a complete picture of student, class, and district performance, allowing administrators to implement instructional and intervention plans.
Category 4: Access and Equity
The Amplify Desmos Math California curriculum provides teachers with lessons, strategies, and resources to eliminate barriers and increase access to grade-level content without reducing the mathematical demand of tasks. Our lessons are developed using the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to proactively ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.
Every activity has multiple entry points to ensure that all students are supported and challenged. Intervention and personalized learning activities are directly connected to the day’s content and offer students the individualized supports they need to be successful.
Each lesson and unit contains guidance for teachers on how to identify students who may need support, students who need to keep strengthening their understanding, and students who may be ready to stretch their learning. In addition, teachers are provided with recommendations for resources to use with each group of students.
Universal Design for Learning
Each lesson in the program incorporates opportunities for engagement, representation, action, and expression based on the guidelines of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
- Multiple Means of Engagement: Students engage in both print and digital learning, and are regularly participating in discussions and hands-on activities. Students are invited to build their own challenge for other students to solve, which provides opportunities for choice and autonomy, as well as joy and play.
- Multiple Means of Representation: Students are encouraged to demonstrate their learning using mathematical representations, both print and digital, and regularly engage with their peers in analyzing multiple possible solutions. Classes engage in open-ended discussions about what individual students notice and wonder about mathematical concepts.
- Multiple Means of Action and Expression: Learners differ in how they navigate learning environments and express what they know. Students can communicate their ideas in multiple ways, including in print, sketching, uploading photos, or recording an audio response.
Accessibility
Lesson facilitation supports
Every lesson includes at least one specific suggestion the teacher can use to increase access to the lesson without reducing the mathematical demand of the tasks. These suggestions address the following areas:
- Conceptual Processing
- Visual-Spatial Processing
- Executive Functioning
- Memory and Attention
- Fine Motor Skills
Accessibility tools
Students have the ability to control accessibility tools so that each learning experience is customized to their individual needs. In many instances, these tools can be turned on or off at any point of instruction.
- Text to speech: Reads text instructions to students in multiple languages
- Enlarged font: Increases the size of all text on screen
- Braille mode: Includes narration of digital interactions
- Language selection: Toggles between languages
Differentiation: In-Lesson Teacher Moves
Within every lesson activity, teachers can use the suggestions in the Differentiation Teacher Moves table to provide in-the-moment instructional support while students are engaged in the work of the lesson. This table can help teachers anticipate the ways students may approach the activity, and provides prompts that they can use during the lesson to Support, Strengthen, and Stretch individual students in their thinking. Teachers are provided with clear student actions and understanding to look for, each matched with immediately usable suggestions for how to respond to the student thinking illustrated in each row of the table. In addition to using these suggestions in the moment as teachers monitor student work, teachers can review the Differentiation table in advance to help them anticipate how students are likely to approach the activity.

Differentiation: Beyond the Lesson
Teachers are provided with recommendations for resources to use with each group of students needing support, strengthening, and stretching after each lesson. Support, Strengthen, and Stretch resources include:
- Mini-Lessons: 15-minute, small-group direct instruction lessons targeted to a specific concept or skill
- Item Banks: Space for teachers to create practice and assessments by using filters and searching for standards, summative-style items, and more
- Fluency Practice: Adaptive, personalized practice built out for basic operations and more
- Extensions: Lesson-embedded Teacher Moves including possible stretch questions and activities for students
- Lesson Practice: Additional practice problems support every lesson
- Math Adventures: Strategy-based math games where students engage with math concepts and practice skills in a fun digital environment
- Lesson Summary Support: Support for students and caregivers that provides efficient explanation of the learning goal with clear examples
Math Identity and Community
The Math Identity and Community feature supports teachers in helping students build confidence in their own mathematical thinking, develop skills to work with and learn from others when doing math, and learn how math is an interwoven part of their broader community. The embedded prompts throughout the lessons are designed to highlight what it means to be good at math, the value of sharing ideas, and the power of flexible and creating thinking. Here are some examples of the Math Identity and Community supports embedded in each lesson:
- I can be all of me in math class. You will work with partners every day in math class. What do you want your partners to know about you?
- We are a math community. What does good listening look like and sound like in a math community?
- I am a doer of math. What math strengths did you use today?
Math Language Development
Every lesson in Amplify Desmos Math California includes opportunities for all students to develop mathematical language as they experience the content. Amplify Desmos Math California purposefully progresses language development from lesson to lesson and across units by supporting students in making their arguments and explanations stronger, clearer, and more precise. This systematic approach to the development of math language can be broken down into the following four categories of support:
- Vocabulary: Units and lessons start by surfacing students’ language for new concepts, then building connections between their language and the new vocabulary for that unit. This honors the language assets that students bring into their learning.
- Language Goals: Language goals attend to the mathematics students are learning, and are written through the lens of one or more of four language modalities: reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
- Math Language Routines: Math Language Routines are used within lessons to highlight student-developed language and ideas, cultivate conversation, support mathematical sense-making, and promote meta-cognition.
- Multilingual/English Learner Supports: Supports for multilingual/English learners (ML/ELs) are called out at intentional points within each lesson. These specific, targeted suggestions support ML/ELs with modifications that increase access to a task, or through development of contextual or mathematical language (both of which can be supportive of all learners).
Multilingual and English Learner Supports
Partnership with English Learner Success Forum
Amplify partnered with the English Learner Success Forum (ELSF), a national nonprofit organization that advocates for high-quality instructional materials that are inclusive of multilingual learners. ELSF reviewed Amplify Desmos Math California, and provided directional guidance and feedback to ensure that the program reflects their research-based instructional strategies for multilingual/English learners.
Math Language Development Resource
Our Math Language Development Resources book contains lesson-specific strategies and activities for all levels of English Learners (i.e., Emerging, Expanding, Bridging). With support for every lesson, teachers are empowered to help all students, regardless of their language skills, to participate fully, grasp the material, and excel in their mathematical journey.
Multilingual glossary
Amplify Desmos Math California includes a digital glossary for languages other than Spanish. Translations will be provided for up to nine languages.
Spanish version
Amplify Desmos Math California will include Spanish student-facing materials beginning in the 2026–27 school year.
Category 5: Instructional Planning and Support
Amplify Desmos Math California includes a variety of embedded instructional supports to empower teachers to lead effectively and gain actionable insights into student growth and progress. Teachers are equipped with a comprehensive set of resources designed to fulfill the requirements of Category 5.
Grade-level concepts
Within the Teacher Edition front matter:
- Scope and sequence
- Big Ideas, Drivers of Investigation, and Content Connections
- Grade level standards
- Standards for Mathematical Practice
- English Language Development Standards
- Environmental Principals and Concepts
Within each Unit and Sub-Unit Overview:
- Big Ideas, Drivers of Investigation, and Content Connections
- Math that Matters Most
- Grade level standards
- Standards for Mathematical Practice
- English Language Development Standards
- Environmental Principals and Concepts
Within each Lesson:
- Big Ideas, Drivers of Investigation, and Content Connections
- Grade level standards
- Standards for Mathematical Practice
- English Language Development Standards
- Environmental Principals and Concepts
How to implement the program
At the course level (within the Teacher Edition front matter):
- Navigating the Program (both print and digital)
- Facilitating Lesson Activities with Launch, Monitor and Connect
- Overview of the Digital Facilitation Tools
At the lesson level:
- Suggestions for timing
- What materials to prep
- How to organize and group students
- Key lesson takeaways with the Synthesis
- Recommendations for Differentiation
- Strategies for intervention and extensions (in the Intervention, Extensions, and Investigation Resources book)
At the activity level:
- Differentiation recommendations
- Accessibility tips
- ML / EL tips
- Teacher look-fors
- Recommended Teacher Moves
- Prompts for guiding student thinking
- Sample student responses
Development of Math Language
A variety of language development supports are provided within the Student and Teacher Editions and Math Language Development Resources book.
At the lesson level:
- Diagrams and visuals
- Sentence frames and word banks
- Graphic organizers, including Frayer models
- Vocabulary routines
- Embedded language supports aligned to the CA ELDs
- Lesson-specific strategies for Emerging, Expanding, and Bridging
At the unit level:
- Words With Multiple Meanings
- Contextual vocabulary
At the course level:
- English/Spanish cognates
- Multilingual Glossary
Other Curriculum Guidance
- Additional Practice Resources book
- Assessment Resources book
- Assess and Respond guidance paired with each assessment opportunity
- Show-What-You-Know activities
- Answer keys and rubrics
- Performance tasks
Amplify Desmos Math for the Archdiocese of Miami
Welcome Catholic school educators,
Amplify Desmos Math thoughtfully combines conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application. Each math 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.
What is Amplify Desmos Math?
Amplify Desmos Math supports teachers in building students’ lifelong math proficiency. The program:
- Supports social classrooms, invites mathematical creativity, and evokes wonder, creating a welcoming learning space where students are empowered to see themselves and their classmates as having brilliant mathematical ideas.
- Provides teachers with clear, step-by-step moves to build systematically from students’ prior knowledge to grade-level learning.
- Connects students to each other’s thinking and to an understanding that they can use math to make sense of the world.
- Enables access to grade-level understanding for every student, every day.
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.
Ready to Explore?
Ready to explore as a teacher? Follow these instructions:
- Visit learning.amplify.com
- Select Log in with Amplify.
- Enter the username: t1.diocese_of_miami_adm@demo.tryamplify.net
- Enter the password: Amplify1-diocese_of_miami_adm
Ready to explore as a student? Follow these instructions:
- Enter the password: Amplify1-diocese_of_miami_adm
- Visit learning.amplify.com
- Select Log in with Amplify.
- Enter the username: s1.diocese_of_miami_adm@demo.tryamplify.net

Experience Amplify Desmos Math
Click the links below to explore our interactive digital lessons, where you’ll also find print Teacher Edition and Student Edition pages for each lesson.
For helpful navigation tips and more program information, download our Grades K–5 and Grades 6–Algebra 1 program guides.
You can also watch a product expert walk through a lesson and the available program components with a lesson walkthrough video.
Personalized learning and support
Amplify Desmos Math includes digital, adaptive practice that provides the personalized support a student needs to access grade-level math every day. Personalized Learning activities target a skill or concept aligned to the day’s core lesson, with each student receiving personalized scaffolds based on what they already know. This technology complements daily learning and provides another layer of support to the in-lesson differentiation and instructional guidance provided to teachers. Click here to try a Boost Personalized Learning activity. More activities coming soon!
The Fluency Practice of Amplify Desmos Math uses an evidence-based approach to memory retention—spaced repetition—for the basic operations. Students around the world have answered more than 120 million multiplication questions within our application. Try it now!

Contact us
Support is always available. Our team is dedicated to helping you every step of the way. Contact your dedicated Florida representative here for program access, samples, and additional information.

Jeff Rutter
Field Manager
Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties
jrutter@amplify.com
(727) 407-5801

Amanda Shelley
Account Executive
Broward County Schools
ashelley@amplify.com
(321)-693-3518

Tom Gantt
District Manager
Miami Resident
tgantt@amplify.com
(305)-546-2979

Piloting mCLASS® and Boost Reading
Pilot educator,
Thank you for taking the time to sample Amplify’s universal and dyslexia screener with personalized instruction. Making this important shift shows your commitment and dedication to your students. We truly appreciate the work you’re doing and are here to help you along the way.
This website is designed to set you up for success as you take this critical step to better understand your students and help them grow as confident, life-long readers.
Thank you for all you do,
—The Amplify team
Getting started
Ensure you’ve completed the following before launching your pilot programs:
- Participate in pilot training | Participant Notebook
- Log in to mCLASS® and Boost Reading via learning.amplify.com to confirm your classes are set up as intended.
- Talk with your pilot team about your benchmark dates and pilot goals.
Note: If you’re piloting mCLASS Intervention, you can review this Participant Notebook and access your program at learning.amplify.com.
Once you’ve completed these steps, you’re ready to review the following implementation guidance for information about what to do before, after, and between benchmarks. Note that some recommendations are indicated as “Optional” to help narrow the focus of your pilot experience to the most critical elements of the mCLASS suite.

Implementing mCLASS and Boost Reading

Gather Materials

Integrate Boost Reading into your classroom routine

Use mCLASS Intervention with Tier 2–3 students (Note: Only applicable if your school or district added this program to your pilot.)
Biliteracy considerations
(Note: Only applicable if your school or district is also piloting or using mCLASS Lectura with Boost Lectura)

Integrate Boost Reading and Boost Lectura into your classroom routine
Welcome to Amplify Desmos Math!
Welcome, Oregon educators!
Thank you for taking the time to explore Amplify’s early literacy system for K–5.
Our core curriculum, assessment, practice, and intervention solutions work in tandem to ensure classroom teachers have a multi-tiered literacy support system for every Oregon student. All of Amplify’s early literacy resources can be used to support Oregon’s Early Literacy Success School District Grants, including our Science of Reading professional development offerings. This website will provide you information about each grant-applicable resource and the Application Guidance document can assist you in applying for the grant. The grant due date is January 8, 2024.

Literacy System Overview
Strong core instruction is crucial–but in isolation, even that’s not enough. A truly effective literacy system needs to bring together assessment, core instruction, personalized practice, targeted intervention, and ongoing professional development.
Together with leading experts in reading instruction, Amplify has built a proven early literacy system grounded in the latest reading research and designed to ensure every student receives the multi-tiered support they need to grow as a reader. Our partners include:
- The University of Oregon
- Core Knowledge Foundation
- Recognized language, literacy, and biliteracy experts such as Dr. Lillian Durán, Dr. Desiree Pallais, Dr. Catherine Snow, and others.

Assessment
Not only should an assessment systems include universal screening, dyslexia screening, diagnostic assessments, and progress monitoring, it must also be easy and efficient to administer, and provide classroom teachers with actionable data that guides instruction.
The mCLASS® Assessment System delivers all that and more!
When the DIBELS® 8th Edition assessment is paired with:
- The Text Reading and Comprehension (TRC) assessment, teachers unlock the ability to record reading behaviors through running digital records.
- The Vocabulary, Encoding, and Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) measures, teachers are empowered to screen for dyslexia risk.
- mCLASS Lectura, teachers gain a holistic view of their students with biliteracy insights that support students in both English and Spanish.
Ready to learn more? Click the buttons below to review mCLASS with DIBELS 8th Edition with TRC and mCLASS Lectura.
Core instruction
Core instruction should include explicit, systematic lessons in foundational skills and a coherent approach to building background knowledge, developing vocabulary, and reading complex text with confidence.
With Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts® (CKLA) and Amplify Caminos, all students have the opportunity to become strong readers, writers, speakers, and thinkers. Through a powerful combination of proven, evidence-based practices and engaging, interactive content, these core curricula enable students to develop a deep mastery of foundational skills as well as a robust knowledge base–both of which are necessary for accessing and comprehending complex texts.
Ready to learn more? Click the buttons below to review Amplify CKLA and Amplify Caminos.
Personalized practice
Student needs are multidimensional, which is precisely why practice must be personalized and provide opportunities for remediation and acceleration across multiple dimensions.
Through its integration with mCLASS and Amplify CKLA, Boost Reading’s adaptive personalized pathway makes practice more purposeful and productive. mCLASS automatically places students on an adaptive path within Boost Reading, which provides them the exact practice they need. That very practice follows the same approach and scope and sequence as Amplify CKLA, which further reinforces the core instruction.
Ready to learn more? Click the button below to review Boost Reading.
Targeted intervention
Getting students caught up on reading skills requires more than just “extra help” in small groups. It requires data-informed instruction focused directly on the specific skills each group needs to learn next.
mCLASS® Intervention is a staff-led reading intervention that does the heavy lifting of data analysis and lesson sequencing, freeing up teachers to teach the reading skills each student needs. mCLASS Intervention connects directly to mCLASS data, automatically groups students with similar needs, follows a research-based skills progression, includes ready-to-teach engaging lessons, and updates skill profiles and groups every ten days.
Ready to learn more? Click the button below to review mCLASS Intervention.

Science of Reading PD
Interested in helping your district make the shift to the Science of Reading? If so, grant funds can also be used for professional development. Amplify offers Science of Reading (SoR) professional development to districts that are ready to begin or progress their SoR journey. These synchronous and asynchronous courses will build and deepen teacher knowledge around SoR and give them practical tips for effective instruction.
Ready to learn more? Click the button below to review our product-agnostic Science of Reading professional learning opportunities.
Lastly, here are additional links to helpful Science of Reading resources:
Your Oregon team
Looking to speak directly with your local representative? Get in touch with an Oregon team member to learn more about our early literacy suite and how it can be used in applying for the Early Literacy Success School District Grants. See below to find your Amplify Account Executive.
About the program
We believe in math that motivates. Our structured approach to problem-based learning builds on students’ curiosity to develop lasting grade-level understandings for all students.
The program thoughtfully combines conceptual understanding, fluency, and application, motivating students with interesting problems they are eager to solve. Teachers can spend more time where it’s most impactful: creating a collaborative classroom of learners.


Structured approach to problem-based learning
- Differentiation and personalized practice
- Easy-to-follow instructional guidance
- Robust assessments and reports
- Spanish student materials

Math that motivates
- Powerful teacher-facilitation supports and tools
- Students talking and building from each other’s ideas
- Every lesson has fully compatible print and digital materials for a collaborative classroom

Student thinking is made evident
- Curiosity-driven lessons that motivate students with interesting problems they are eager to solve
- Explicit guidance for teachers on what to look for and how to respond
- Technology that provides Responsive Feedback and is designed to reveal mathematical thinking
Figuring out Problem-Based Learning
Figuring out how to implement a problem-based learning approach to mathematics can be fun and challenging. Rest assured that you will not be alone on this journey. Amplify will be by your side every step of the way.
In the short videos below, Fawn Nguyen (Math Teaching and Learning Team, Former Math Coach and Teacher) and John Hoogestraat (Math Product Specialist, Former Math Coach and Teacher) share their thoughts about the power of Amplify Desmos Math.


Scope and sequence
Click the link below to view the program scope and sequence for grade 6–Algebra 1.
Program Preview lessons
Check out the links below to explore our interactive digital lessons.
In addition to the sample lessons below, you can view a sampler of Amplify Desmos Math mini-lessons. Amplify Desmos Math mini-lessons are 15-minute lessons aligned to the most critical topics throughout a unit. Teacher-led mini-lessons are used to provide targeted intervention to small groups of students who need additional support or to re-engage students with content that they may need more time on.


Algebra 1, Unit 2: Linear Equations and Inequalities
Sub-Unit 1–2: One-Variable Equations and Multi-Variable Equations
Review full-year content
The login information provided below enables you to preview the complete mathematical content by grade level in less-than-final format. This content will be updated to the final Amplify Desmos Math format for the 2024-25 school year with the robust instructional supports shown in the Program Preview lessons.
To begin your review:
1. Review the Amplify Desmos Math Program Preview lessons.
2. Click here and use the following credentials to log in:
Username: t1.sfmath@demo.tryamplify.net
Password: Amplify1-sfmath
3. Use the following links to begin your review:

Looking for help?
imSupport is always within reach. Our team is dedicated to supporting you throughout your review and can be reached at any time by emailing or calling us directly.
- Live chat: Click the orange icon while logged in to get immediate help.
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Ready to learn more?
S3-03: Instructional strategies for integrating science and literacy

We’re continuing our investigations around science and literacy with Doug Fisher, Ph.D., professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University. We talk about the importance of integrating science and literacy, as well as practical guidance for teachers who want to unite the two disciplines in their own classrooms.
Listen as we discuss how science and literacy can be powerful allies and specific strategy areas to focus on when integrating the two disciplines. And don’t forget to grab your Science Connections study guide to track your learning and find additional resources!
We hope you enjoy this episode and explore more from Science Connections by visiting our main page!
Douglas Fisher (00:00):
It’s not that you have to become a reading specialist to integrate literacy into science. It’s how our brains work.
Eric Cross (00:10):
Welcome to Science Connections. I’m your host, Eric Cross. This season, we’re making the case for our favorite underdog, which of course is science. Each episode we’re showing how science can be better utilized in the classroom, and making the case for why it’s so important to do so. In our last episode, we examined the evidence showing that science and English instruction can support each other. And now on this episode, we want to give you some more strategies for really making that a reality in your own home or classroom or community. So to help me, I’m joined on this episode by Dr. Douglas Fisher, Professor and Chair of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University. Dr. Fisher is actually someone who has conducted literacy training at my own school, so I’m excited to be able to share some of his wisdom with all of you. Oh, and just a heads up, Dr. Fisher dropped some gems about the ways teachers can integrate literacy and science in their classrooms. So you may want to have a notepad. Ready. And now here’s my conversation with Dr. Douglas Fisher.
Eric Cross (01:12):
Well, Doug, thank you for your time and for being willing to come and talk about literacy and science. I know you’re busy, all over the place, and so I was super-excited that we were able to lock you in and talk about this. And, on this episode, we’re gonna talk about the ways that science and literacy can support each other. And one of the reasons why I’m really excited for you is because you said some really key things for me as a science teacher, when you talked about literacy and supporting students. That just resonated so deeply in me. And I was like, “I need more Doug!” Because we’re on that same frequency. And I know it’s a subject that you’ve spent a lot of time writing about. So can you tell us a little bit about how this became an area of interest or a passion for you? Just literacy, and all of the work that you’ve put into it?
Douglas Fisher (01:54):
Yeah. So I’ve wanted to be a teacher for a really long time. And I went to San Diego State as an undergraduate, and I was taking English class and we were assigned topics. You know, like, you’ll do an assignment, you’ll write a paper for this English class. And I got the topic “illiteracy,” and I was a freshman at San Diego State reading all of these things about adults who don’t read very well or not at all. And I ended up writing my very first college essay on illiteracy — at the time, you know, called illiteracy, at the time. And so I got super interested in this. And so as I moved through college and into my teaching career, literacy became a really important thing for me to think about, because it’s the gatekeeper. You know, you can be taken advantage of, if you’re not very literate. People can use vocabulary against you, if you’re not very literate. We know that people who have higher levels of literacy have better health outcomes. They have better lifespans, longer lifespans. I mean, there’s just — literacy impacts so much more than “Are you reading your fourth-grade textbook?” It really has lifelong implications.
Eric Cross (03:01):
That part that you said about being taken advantage of … I just got a flyer in the mail yesterday. It was one of these mailers that looked like it was an authentic debt-reduction type of thing, but it was really just like a marketing email. If you read the fine print at the very bottom, it had all of this jargon about “This is a paid, you know, for-profit company.” But when you look at it, it had official stamps all over it. And I could imagine if someone’s receiving that, that probably fools a lot of people. Is that kinda like what you’re talking about, like being taken advantage of?
Douglas Fisher (03:28):
Yes. I had a student turn 18, got a letter from a “credit card company” that was offering her daily compounding interest. And if you don’t know what that means — at 23 percent! — if you dunno what that means, you are gonna be a victim. Literacy really influences a lot of our life. It’s also how our brain works. We have a language-based system in our brain. We read, write, speak, listen, and view. And the things we learn, we learn through speaking, reading, writing, listening, and viewing. From what we know, we are the only species that has an external storage mechanism. Like, we have the ability to store complex information outside of our body, in the form of notes. We can type them. We can write them. And we can then go back and retrieve that information, that complex orthographic information later. And it means the same thing. We can say we have a storage system and we’ve been doing this for a really long time. Way back to, you know, hieroglyphics and messages on cave walls. And throughout the ages of humans learning, how to store information that they can re-access again later. That’s become a super-complicated system. It’s how computers operate. And we send messages to each other and we text each other and we write things down, and we’re really good at putting ideas, information out there. Now, if it’s just speaking and listening, then we can forget it. We can say, “No, you said this,” or “I said that.” But when it’s written, and it’s print literacy, you know, it’s the orthographics there, you can go back to the same message and over and over again. Now, you might change the interpretation of it, but the message is still there.
Eric Cross (05:16):
Right. And that is such a key element, at least of modern education, is this written element of it. It’s what many schools live and die by. They’re quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed by it. It’s public. They can see it. And so there’s this heavy emphasis. And why do you think science and literacy can be powerful allies together?
Douglas Fisher (05:38):
Awesome. Well, it’s hard to learn science if you’re not literate.
Eric Cross (05:42):
This is true.
Douglas Fisher (05:42):
But that’s a one-way direction. And yes, science teachers and scientists do a lot of reading, writing, speaking, and listening and viewing. They use the five literacy processes all the time. When we interview scientists, they spend a lot of their time reading the work of other scientists and writing their findings, writing grant proposals, presenting at conferences, you know. So a huge part of the work of a scientist is not just at a bench conducting experiments. But even if you’re conducting experiments, you’re using your literacy processes to think about what you’re seeing in your experiment. So that’s a one-way direction. And I do think literacy has an influence on science. But since science goes the other way, it influences literacy. As you learn more and you understand more about the world, your background knowledge grows, your vocabulary grows, you become more literate in those different areas. And how you think. So if I’m learning about life science; I’m learning how the world works in a more, biologic physical world. And that knowledge helps me think about when I’m reading a novel, and there’s an appeal to some science knowledge or a concept that gets played with, you know, perhaps time-space continuums … well, if I don’t have the science knowledge of how I think the world works, it’s hard for me to understand what this author is doing. So it does go both ways. They feed each other. And the more literate we become, the more complex science information we can understand. ‘Cause our background knowledge and our vocabulary influence how much we understand about what we read. And as we access more complex science information, it starts to change the way we think about other things in our world.
Eric Cross (07:23):
There was a couple of things that you said in that, but one of the first things that kind of perked my ears is when you said grant proposals. Because I have friends that are scientists — and this is one of the things that when I was in school, they don’t talk about — but how much of their research is reliant upon getting funding —
Douglas Fisher (07:37):
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>,
Eric Cross (07:38):
— which you don’t think about if you’re becoming a chemist or a physicist or a biologist or working in the field, is that that funding, coming from the NSF or anywhere else. And sometimes students ask in class like, “Why am I writing so much? Like, I want to go into science!” Or “I wanna do this!” And this is a real-life example of how the writing could actually apply, in addition to all of the things of collecting data and conclusions and results. But that grant proposal thing just really perked my ears, yeah.
Douglas Fisher (08:01):
And if you can’t write a grant proposal, your ideas and experiments are not gonna get funded. And if you can’t write a strong proposal, that compellingly convinces your readers to fund you, you’re not gonna get funded. But then once you get the grant, you have to write publications. You have to share your work with other people. Make PowerPoint presentations and write journal articles or books or whatever. So it’s a cycle that literacy influences the things we do, including the things we do in science.
Eric Cross (08:31):
Now to get in maybe some data, if you were trying to convince someone that like this happy marriage can exist, what would be like your number one piece of evidence to support this, this back and forth of supporting each other?
Douglas Fisher (08:44):
Awesome. So the quote I’ll often say — and this is from studies from more than two decades ago now — but in general, in high school science, students are introduced to 3000 unfamiliar words, 3000. Each year! Because there are words that are used in a scientific way that are used commonly in other places. And there are discipline-specific words. So 3000 words a year in high school science. The Spanish 1 textbook only has 1500 words in it. So science teachers have double the academic-language vocabulary demand that a typical introductory world-language class has. So just the vocabulary alone should say to us, literacy is gonna be important if you’re gonna learn science. And if you don’t understand these technical words, and you don’t understand the way science uses this particular word in this particular way… . When you say the word “process,” it means something very specific In science. “Division” — cellular division is not the way we think about it in mathematics; there’s a similar concept, but cellular division is different than dividing numbers. And those are words that get used in multiple areas. Then you have all these technical terms that you have to be able to use, to understand the concepts. To share the concepts. To talk to other people. Whether you’re in, you know, fifth grade and talking science, or you’re a university professor, there’s a shared language, appropriate for our grade level, that we have shared meanings of.
Eric Cross (10:22):
And we’re essentially … what I’m hearing you say is … most of the people that are listening to this are science teachers. We’re we’re also language teachers. In a sense.
Douglas Fisher (10:29):
So my frustration is when people say, “Every teacher’s a teacher of reading.” And I don’t like that. I’ve written against that phrase. I don’t think all teachers are teachers of reading, any more than all teachers are teachers of chemistry. Or all teachers are teachers of algebra. But what I will say is the human brain learns through language. And all of us — every teacher that I’ve ever met understands that language is important in my class. If my students don’t have strong listening skills and speaking skills; reading, writing, and viewing skills; I’m gonna have a hard time getting them to learn things. If I can help them grow their speaking, listening, reading, writing, and viewing in my content area, I’m gonna do a service for my learning of my subject and also their more broad literacy development.
Eric Cross (11:16):
- So, at a high level, what does it look like to integrate science and literacy? We’ve done education for the last, what, hundred years?
Douglas Fisher (11:24):
Mm-hmm. <affirmative>
Eric Cross (11:25):
—kind of pretty similarly, right? Kind of siloed way. What does this look like at the 30,000-foot level? You’re a professor, department chair. Run schools. Speak everywhere. Like, when you think about this from that high level, what does it look like?
Douglas Fisher (11:39):
A high level? Every time I meet with students in a science class, you know, biology or fifth grade or whatever? They should be reading, they should be writing, they should be speaking and listening. Every class. So what print do you want them to access? And it can be a primary source document, it can be an article, it can be from a textbook. Are they reading something? Are they writing to you? Because writing is thinking. If they are writing, they are thinking. As soon as their brain goes somewhere else, they stop writing. The pen won’t move or the fingers don’t type. And then speaking and listening, of course, is the dynamic of our classes. So every day we should see some amount of reading, writing, speaking, and listening, viewing in our classes. That’s at a high level. There are some generic things that seem to work across the literacy. So, learning how to take notes. Focusing on vocabulary. Using graphic organizers. These are generic things that as educators we can use in our classes. Then there’s more specialized things. So, scientists and science teachers think differently than historians and literary critics and art critics. So scientists, if you look at the disciplinary literacy work, there’s a whole body of research where they interview and study high-end experts in their field: chemistry, physics, biology, et cetera. And there are some characteristics that were more disciplined, specific. Scientists like cause and effect relationships. They look for them when they’re reading. They like sourcing information. “Where this come from?” “What’s the history of this idea?” Scientists have a long view in terms of time. Historians have a shorter view of time. English teachers have even shorter view of time. Scientists tend to think in long periods of time. And so all of that influences how a scientist reads and how we should apprentice young people after they get past the generic “I know how to take notes. I know how to study my vocabulary. I know how to do summary writing for my teacher in my notebooks and things,” there’s some generic tools. Once we get past those, we need to be looking at specifically how do people in science use literacy.
Eric Cross (13:52):
I’ve never had my thought process of reading deconstructed just now, but we just described how scientists read. I was like, “Yeah, that’s pretty much how I read, right there.” I also like how you said how we should apprentice young people. And I feel like you as the literacy guy, you chose that word very specifically, as far as apprenticing young people. That is a view, I think, that’s really important to hold. ‘Cause that’s what we’re doing essentially … is, if we’re doing what we should be doing, we are apprenticing these young people.
Douglas Fisher (14:18):
Yes.
Eric Cross (14:18):
And helping them develop. Now, let’s imagine there’s a listener out there and they’re interested in getting better at integrating science and literacy instruction. They want to start somewhere. Before we dive in, do you have any initial words of encouragement for the person who’s like, “Everything is like a priority right now,” in their classroom or in their world?
Douglas Fisher (14:37):
Yeah. So I’ll talk about elementary for just a moment. When we’re reading informational texts in our literacy block, we should be reading information that is aligned to what kids need to learn in science and history in, in that grade level. Why are we reading things that are gonna be in conflict with what they’re gonna learn in science later that day in fourth grade, for example? So when we look at our standards, our expectations, what is it that third graders need to know in history, science, mathematics, language arts? And when we’re reading text and we’re learning to apply our reading strategies during our literacy block, why aren’t we reading topics that build our background knowledge for our science time? So we’re seeing some synergy there. We should be looking at life cycles in grades that are appropriate for life cycles and knowing there’s more to life cycles than the frog and the plant or the seed. There are all kinds of life cycles. And we call ’em life cycles for a reason. That’s a general concept. Now in science, we’re looking at this particular lifecycle right now. And so that’s a high level. If we could get more connection to the content standards during our literacy blocks, it would be very good. When we talk about the time at which we call “science” in the day, in more of the K–8 continuum, the science needs to include some primary source documents. Some real things that students are reading. Read about a scientist; read about a scientist’s discovery; read about what they discovered. So that we’re building our background knowledge. So when we go to do things, activities, labs, simulations, we have background knowledge and we understand what we’re experiencing. It can’t be like—I watched this awesome lesson on lenses and the teacher had all these different lenses in the room and the students came in and they were brand new. They don’t know anything. They were picking ’em up. They’re exploring them. They’re trying to figure out, and they’re trying to come up with theories about what this is and how it works. And then the teacher gave them a reading, a short reading, on refraction of light. And they read this thing. And the clarity that they had about what these lenses must do, well! All of a sudden they’re putting them up to the lights! They’re asking if they can go get the lights out of the storage unit! ‘Cause there’s — and they’re shining different lights through the lenses to see what happens to the light. Because that little bit of reading turned some focus on for the students. And it allowed them to take what I’m thinking about, what I’m trying to figure out, how this thing works in another direction. That’s the power of using literacy in our classes.
Eric Cross (17:20):
And what I’m hearing essentially is transfer across disciplines, across content areas, ultimately. And in an elementary school classroom, would it be fair to say, probably the teacher has more autonomy to be able to do that, since they’re teaching all the subjects? But secondary, logistically, planning and those types of things … from what you’ve seen, is it fair to say this kind of needs to be like a top-down, full vertical alignment, to teach like this?
Douglas Fisher (17:45):
I think that would be awesome to do that. But if I’m a sixth grade English Language Arts teacher and I’m working with my sixth grade science teacher, the conversation should be, “What units are you teaching?” Because I’m choosing informational text. My job is to teach them how to find central ideas. My job is to teach them how to find the details in the text. My job is to have them make a claim and support that claim with evidence. The stuff I use is generic. Yes, we do read some literature and some narratives, but we also read about 50% of the text in English around informational text. So if I can help you and accomplish my standards as well, fantastic. So let’s have this conversation and say, “Oh, this is what you’re teaching in science in the next three weeks? I’m gonna choose some texts and we’re gonna analyze ’em for central idea. We’re gonna analyze ’em for details. We’re gonna, for mood or tone or whatever that we’re teaching. And by the way, I’m building background knowledge. So when they come to you, they know some stuff about what you’re going to be teaching next.” So I don’t think it’s impossible to say teams of teachers could come together and say, “What do we believe that our students need to know and learn and be able to do? And then how do we choose things that are gonna help them accomplish exactly that?”
Eric Cross (19:01):
And that’s empowering. Because that’s one thing that we can control maybe is this East-West, peer-to-peer, different content areas. A system may not be able to change as quickly, but I can definitely go talk to my English team or math team and check in and kind of see, “Hey, where do we have overlap in that?” And I know the times that I’ve accidentally had overlap with the teams, it’s super-exciting. And the students have been more bought in! Because it’s like, we’ve done something on the human microbiome and we’ve talked about genetics and all these different things, and then when they read The Giver, or they read some book about genetics, they have all this knowledge. And they’re excited. And they talk about colorblindness or they come to my class and they’re like, “Hey, we read about this!” It’s almost like they saw a magic trick, the fact that these things linked up. And the engagement has been so much higher when it’s the same content in different classes, but through different lenses. At least, that’s what I’ve seen in my years of teaching.
Douglas Fisher (19:54):
I saw a lesson on space junk that was so cool. Middle-school students learning space junk. And the history teacher had a part of it, science teacher had a part of it, English Language Arts teacher had a part of it. And these students, I mean, you watch them look up all the time, ’cause there’s space junk up there. Where’d it come from? Why is it there? What are the politics of this? How do we clean it up? I mean, it was just so interesting to watch them when the teachers came together. And the teachers met their standards in this couple-week-long space-junk exploration. Investigation was met. Politics was met. All these different things. Economy. You know, how much does it cost to clean up this problem? So there’s really cool opportunities when teachers come together and realize we can work together and improve the literacy and learning of our students.
Eric Cross (20:50):
Absolutely. So before this recording, we picked your brain a bit. And I know that there were three specific strategy areas that you wanted to touch on. And one of those — which is kind of coming back to the 3000-words language teachers — was vocabulary. So what are the opportunities that you see, as far as the way of educators to approach vocabulary? Because, you know, there’s a lot. We got a lot of it. The 3000 words.
Douglas Fisher (21:14):
Yeah. There’s a lot of it. So the worry is, we make a vocabulary list and have students look up the words in definitional kinds of things. That’s not really gonna help. Students need to be using the words. They need to be using the words in their conversations, in their writing, in how they think about your content in science. So vocabulary is a huge predictor of whether or not you understand things. Vocabulary is also a pretty good predictor if you can read on grade level. So when we think about vocabulary, there’s something called word solving. You show students a piece of text and you’re reading it, you’re sharing your thinking, and you say, “Oh, here’s a context clue!” Or “I know this prefix or suffix or root!” And in science, a lot of the words are prefixed, suffixed, or root words. We tend to add things together with a lot of prefixes and suffixes and have roots and bases in science. So we can help students think about, “Oh, what does geo- mean? We already know what geo- means here. It means the same thing in this word. Let’s apply that knowledge.” So word solving is part of it, showing students how we think about words that we might not know. The second is more direct instruction of vocabulary. As students encounter the words, we work on what it means, how we say it. We practice it a few times. The process is called orthographic mapping. It’s kind of a scientific idea here. But you have the sound and the recognition of by-the-word, by sight, and what it means. And your brain starts to automatically recognize that word in the future. So I don’t have to slow down, disrupt my fluency, and try to figure out what the word is saying. ‘Cause I’ve seen it enough. I’ve heard it pronounced enough, I’ve pronounced it enough, and I know what it means. So teachers should be saying, “What words in sixth grade science, what words in third grade science, do my students really need to know?” And I’m gonna have them encounter those words over and over. I’m gonna have them use the words. I’m gonna have them see the words. I’m gonna have them say the words. I’m gonna say the word and we’re gonna be over and over with these terms, so that students incorporate them into their normal view of, “These are the things I know about the world.” By the way, when they go to read that next thing, and they understand “geology,” you know, for sixth graders, for example, they know how to say it. They don’t stumble on it. And it activates a whole bunch of memories in their brains. “This is what geology is.” There are branches of geology, there’s physical geology, there’s all this thinking that activates as they read.
Eric Cross (23:35):
There was a practice that I participated in and am trying to incorporate — I don’t know what the name of it is. But essentially what happened was we were dissecting a flower. And the instructor had us name parts of the flower. But we got to come up with our own names for it.
Douglas Fisher (23:49):
Ah.
Eric Cross (23:50):
So, for instance, the stamen we call “the fuzzy Cheeto.” And we all used our own words and then everything was legitimized. And so we went through and learned the whole activity using our own vocab words. But then, in the end, after we presented and talked about it, then the words, the actual academic language was attached to our word. And we were able to say, “OK, the fuzzy Cheeto is the stamen,” and this, this, this, and this. But it was such an interesting practice, because it kind of legitimized all of our definitions. But we weren’t stumbling on these long Latin terms and things like that. Is there a name for that? Or. … ?
Douglas Fisher (24:29):
Yes. I don’t know the name for that. I think it’s really smart. So here’s what I would say about that, is: we don’t learn words, we learn concepts. Words are labels for our concepts. So what that teacher did for you was allow you to develop concept, a concept knowledge. “There’s a part of this plant, it goes like this, we’re gonna call it fuzzy Cheeto. Now I have this concept. And look, it occurred in all these plants. And those people called it that and that other group called it that. We called it a fuzzy Cheeto. Here’s the part of it.” And then the concept is in your brains. And the teacher said, “It’s really called stamen.” And it’s an instant transfer, because you already had the concept. What we often see is students are trying to learn a really hard academic word and the concept for the word at the same time. And so it slows down the whole process. And there’s higher levels of forgetting. Because human beings, we don’t learn words; we learn concepts. If you don’t have the concept, if I gave you a word out of the blue that you’ve never seen, never heard, and a week from now I asked you to remember it, you probably would not, because it didn’t register. It wasn’t part of your schema. You didn’t have a way to organize the information. You don’t have a concept. So that teacher? It’s a great idea. Got you to develop concept knowledge. And then said, “Here’s a real label for it: What some other people called it when they had the chance to come up with their own names.”
Eric Cross (25:50):
Shout out to my teacher, who was—
Douglas Fisher (25:51):
Right.
Eric Cross (25:52):
It was learned then. It was a great practice. And the fact that you’re right, like, I just mean from my own personal experience, I agree that learning concepts versus complicated words. And it’s interesting that you said higher levels of forgetfulness, you know. And you often hear that complaint about it: “Students forget! Students forget!” But this complex topic and this complex word that’s new to me, and I have to remember both of those things.
Douglas Fisher (26:12):
That’s right.
Eric Cross (26:13):
And the other neat thing that it did, is it actually honored the background and like the founts of knowledge of all the different groups in the classroom. You just said something about “this group called it this and this group called it this,” and so by letting different groups share all of those names, now we’re starting to build these kind of interesting connections. That’s at least what I remember experiencing. And so this, even this practice of this approach is very layered, beyond just kind of generating new knowledge of things. So I appreciate that aspect of it. Now another area that you mentioned was complex text.
Douglas Fisher (26:41):
Yeah.
Eric Cross (26:42):
And how we can get students into complex text. So what can we do there?
Douglas Fisher (26:46):
I think science is an ideal place to get students reading things that are hard for them. And I do believe that some parts of school should be a struggle. Not all day, every day. But there should be doses of struggle, which are good for our brains. And these complex pieces of texts that don’t give up their meanings easily allow students to go back and reread the text and maybe mark the text and talk to peers about the text and answer questions with their groups. And the whole point of complex text is to say, “We persevere through it. We may not understand it fully on our first read. But we go back and we might underline, we might highlight. We might write some margin notes. Our teacher might say, ‘What did this author mean here?’ And we go back and look at that part and we take it apart. What do we think about that? And we talk to each other. It’s showing that when we read things, we work to understand. We work through our thinking, often in the presence of other people. And our understanding grows as we go into the text over and over and over again.” So I said geology earlier. There’s about a two-page article on “what is geology” that sixth graders often read. And some kids find it super boring. It’s a once-read, “OK, geology, I don’t really understand it. There’s a bunch of words in here that I don’t understand.” But if you go back to it a few times and you start taking apart, “What are the branches of geology? Oh, I’m gonna go reread that.” How are these two branches related to each other?” “What are the subtypes of each branch of geology?” “How do geologists do their work?” You start asking questions where students are going back into the text. You spend a little bit of time. Now, the introduction to geology, the students know so much more. So whatever you do next— video experiments, whatever—they have a frame of reference, because of that deep, complex read. It’s probably better than simply telling them, “Here’s the information.”
Eric Cross (28:45):
Right. And I even feel like as an educator, when I reflect on my own learning in the classroom, and then looking at it through the perspective of an educator <laugh>, you find this difference between how you were taught and then what the data says good teaching is.
Douglas Fisher (28:59):
Mm-hmm. <affirmative> mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
Eric Cross (29:00):
It’s so easy to slide back into how you were taught!
Douglas Fisher (29:02):
Yeah.
Eric Cross (29:02):
Even though, you know, you mentally assent to, “This is the best way. This is the data shows.” And you find yourself kind of sliding back at times.
Douglas Fisher (29:10):
Yep. And there’s good evidence to support what you just said, that most people teach the way they experienced school. And it is very hard to change that. And people have studied this. And it’s very hard to change that. Because it worked for us. And we have an n of 1, and it worked for us. Now, remember, there were a whole bunch of other kids in the class that it may not have worked for. And we chose to be in school the rest of our lives, and some of your peers did not choose to be in school the rest of their lives. In fact, some of them hated school and found no redeeming qualities of their experience. So just because it worked for us in a case of one, n of 1, doesn’t mean it worked for all of the kids, or even the majority of them.
Eric Cross (29:57):
Very well said. It’s that, what is that, the survivor bias? Survivorship bias? Where you were the one that made it. But you don’t think about all the other folks. ‘Cause we’re thinking about ourselves.
Douglas Fisher (30:05):
That’s right.
Eric Cross (30:06):
Great case for empathy too, is thinking about the people left and right. Because my friends are like, “I hated science.” And I say, “Who hurt you? Like, what did they do? It’s so amazing, so much fun!”
Douglas Fisher (30:16):
“What happened to you? Science is the coolest. Right? It’s so amazing!”
Eric Cross (30:21):
But I also had a unique experience in seventh grade with my teacher who did some of these things, and made it accessible for so many of us, in opening opportunities that I wouldn’t have had otherwise. But you’re absolutely right. That was my story. That wasn’t the story of everybody that was around me. And I think that’s really important. Now, I know this is also a big one for you, but I wanna talk about writing. What are the opportunities that you see in terms of writing specifically?
Douglas Fisher (30:51):
So would love it if science teachers had short and longer writing tasks in the science time. Of course, you can integrate some of the science writing, the longer ones, in the English language arts time, especially if you’re the elementary teacher and you can have control of the whole day. But I said this earlier; I’ll say it again. Writing is thinking. While you are writing, there’s nothing else you can do but think about what you are writing. Your brain cannot do something else. So if a science teacher wants to know, do their students really understand the concepts? Have them write. Now some of the shorter ones, I like something called “given word” or “generative sentences”: “I’m gonna give you a word: CELL. C-e-l-l. We’re in science. I want you to write the word ‘cell,’ c-e-l-l, in the third position of a sentence. So it’s gonna go word, word, cell, and then more words.” You could also say, “I want the sentence longer than seven words,” or whatever. But the key is, I’m telling you where I want the word. You will know instantly if your students have a sense of what the word “cell” means in the context of science. If they write “my cell phone,” they don’t get it. If they write about spreadsheet cells or jail cells or whatever, they didn’t get it. But if they talk to you about plant cells and animal cells and the components of those cells, and then once they have that sentence down, you can say to them, “Now write three or four more sentences that connect to that sentence.” It’s super simple. So whatever concepts you’re teaching, put ’em in a specific position. Now you don’t have to only put it in the third position. You can say the first position, the fifth position, the fourth position. But it forces them to think about what they know about the word and then how to construct a sentence for you. That’s a very simple way to get some writing from your students that helps you think about what they understand. Other kinds of writing, you can have quick writes, you can have exit-slip writes. There’s something in the research space called the muddiest part, where halfway through the lesson you have them write so far what has been the least understood or the most confusing part of this lesson. And they do a quick write, right there, at the muddiest part. And as a teacher, you flip through these and you start to say, “Oh, these are the points that are confusing to my students.” So if 80% of them all have the same thing, I gotta reteach that. If these five got, “This is the muddiest part,” If these five thought, “This is the muddiest part,” these seven, “I thought this was the muddiest part,” what do I need to do? Because it’s gonna be hard to move forward if this is their area of confusion. There are also all kinds of writing prompts that have a little bit longer. My favorite one is RAFT. What’s your Role? Who’s your Audience? What’s the Format? And what’s the Topic we’re writing about? Super flexible writing prompt. When you teach something, we don’t want students to only think they write to their teacher. So your role is an atom. You are writing to the other atoms. What do you wanna write about? What’s the topic? What’s the format of it? Is it a love letter? Is it a text message? Is it … so we, we mix it up with students in saying, how do they show some knowledge through a prompt that we give them? And then of course, longer pieces as they get older. More opinion pieces through fifth grade. More claims and arguments starting in sixth grade. So that they’re starting to see, “I have to use the evidence from things I’ve learned, read, listened to, watched, and construct something: an opinion, an argument where I back it up with reasons or evidence.” And those longer pieces, you know, less frequently. The shorter pieces, pretty regularly. So the teacher sees the thinking of the students.
Eric Cross (34:29):
When you were speaking about these really creative writing prompts, there were specific students coming into mind, that were coming into mind … they’re, they’re great science students, but they also have this really strong artsy side drawing, creative writing, and things like that. And when you said something about atoms talking to each other, it elicited, in my brain, certain students that would really love this aspect of creativity in the sciences. And it’s not how we’re typically trained as science teachers, to kind of incorporate this, like you said. A book of props. But I’m imagining, like, as a science teacher, if I took this, this would be a great way to reach more students to be able to show what they know, in a way that might resonate with their own intrinsic “Oh, I get to write creatively!” So I was kind of writing furiously as you were sharing all that information there.
Douglas Fisher (35:12):
So here, I’ll give you another example for elementary people. Again, with RAFT. There’s a book called Water Dance. It’s a pretty popular book for elementary teachers. It’s really about the life cycle of water. For example, you are a single drop of water. You are writing to the land. The format is a letter. And you’re explaining your journey. Now, if they can do this, they’re essentially explaining to you the cycle of water. But you got it in a way that people are now, “Oh, I’m a drop of water. So it’s me. My perspective. Where do I go from? Where do I start?” Because you can start anywhere in the cycle, right? My drop could have started in the clouds. My drop could have started in the ground. My drop could have started in the lake. But it has to show you the journey. So there are many ways of showing you the right answers.
Eric Cross (36:02):
And that’s using the RAFT protocol.
Douglas Fisher (36:04):
That’s RAFT: Role, Audience, Format, Topic. It’s been around 20 or 30 years.
Eric Cross (36:09):
You just gave the name to something a teacher shared in our podcast community, Science Connections: The Community, on Facebook. Teacher shared a Google slide deck and on it were just three slides. And the role that the student had to have is they had to show, then tell, the story of a journey of a piece of salmon being eaten, a piece of starch from pasta being eaten, and then an air molecule in a child’s bedroom. And they had to give the path of travel and the experience from the mouth and then breaking down into protein and all those kinds of things. And this teacher shared it and I wish I knew the teacher’s name because I wanna give ’em credit, but they shared it. And so I used it with my students and then had ’em read aloud their stories and dramatize it. And they were so into it!
Douglas Fisher (36:49):
So cool.
Eric Cross (36:50):
But through it, I was able to see that they understood different parts of the body. They understood cell respiration. The whole thing. And it was fun! To watch them get so into this creative writing. And now I know the name of it. That’s been 30 years they were using RAFT. So you just talked a bit about complex texts and writing. And before we go, I wanted to circle back to something that you said, because I think it’s important, and if you could elaborate on it a little bit, about the value of struggle. Can you talk more about that?
Douglas Fisher (37:21):
Sure. I do believe in a lot of the U.S. we’re in an anti-struggle era of education. And it predates Covid. I think it made it worse during Covid. We front load too much. We pre-teach too much. We reduce struggle. We quote, “over-differentiate” for students. And there’s value in struggle. The phrase, “productive struggle” — if you haven’t heard it, Google productive struggle — it’s an interesting concept, that we actually learn more when we engage in this productive struggle. Now, productive struggle originally came from the math world, and it was this idea that it’s worth struggling through things to learn from it, that you’re likely to get it wrong, and then there was productive success. And there are times when we want students to experience success and we make sure we put things in place for productive success. But there are times where we want them to struggle through a concept. ‘Cause it feels pretty amazing when you get on the other side, when you know you struggled and you get to the other side. If you think about the things, listeners, think about the things in your life where you struggled through it and you are most proud of what you accomplished. I want students to have that. I don’t wanna eliminate scaffolding, eliminate differentiation. But I do want some regular doses of struggle. So if you look at the scaffolding, we have a couple choices. We have front-end scaffolds, distributed scaffolds, and back-end scaffolds. Right now we mostly use front-end scaffolds: We pre-teach, we tell students words in advance, that kind of stuff. But what if we refrained from only using front-end scaffolds, and we use more distributed scaffolds, when they encounter. So there’s a difference between “just in case” and “just in time” support for students. So we tend to plan on the “in advance, here are all the things we’re gonna do to remove the struggle before students encounter the struggle.” What if instead we said, “Let them encounter some struggle. Here’s the supports we’re gonna provide. We’re gonna watch; we’re gonna remove those scaffolds, and allow them to have an experience of success, where they realize, ‘I did it. I got it.’” Every science teacher I’ve ever worked with, when they do an experiment or a lab or simulation, they are looking for productive struggle. They don’t tell the answers in advance. They don’t tell if the answers are right. That’s your data. What does your data tell you? I mean, this is what you do. But then the other part of your day when you move into, like, reading, you don’t do that. You fall into the trap of removing struggle. And so allow them to grapple with ideas. Allow them to wonder what words mean. Allow them to say, “I’m not getting this, teacher! It’s really frustrating!” And you say, “Yeah, this is really hard. This is why we’re doing it at school. ‘Cause it’s really hard. If it was easy, I’d have you do it at home. But we’re doing it here, ’cause it’s really hard and it’s OK not to get it at first.” And create a place where errors are seen as opportunities to learn, and struggling through ideas and clarifying your own thinking and arguing with other people to reach an agreement or reach a place where we agree to disagree is part of the power of learning.
Eric Cross (40:38):
There’s a teacher, who I took this from. My master teacher when I was student teaching. And she said that there’s no such thing as failure in science, just data. And I took that same mantra. And I resonate with what you said about how science teachers, all of us, hold onto that productive struggle, because it’s part of being a scientist. It’s part of the experiments. That genuine “aha” moment. Or it didn’t work out? That’s great! That’s totally fine! Let’s write about it and let’s take photos and let’s publish it and let’s be scientists. That’s totally true. As we wrap up, Dr. Fisher, is there any final message that you have to listeners about bringing science and literacy together? I know you speak everywhere, but for everyone that’s listening, if you can put out your encouragement or message or suggestion … you’ve given so many great tips and practical applications. But, any final thoughts on the subject?
Douglas Fisher (41:32):
I think many science teachers are intimidated because they think they have to be reading teachers. And there’s a knowledge base to reading. And some teachers are reading teachers and science teachers, and I don’t wanna dismiss that. But it’s not that you have to become a reading specialist to integrate literacy into science. It’s how our brains work. And so as you think about the way in which you are learning and the ways in which you want your students to learn, what role does language play? What role does speaking, listening, reading, writing, viewing, play in your class? And then provide opportunities for students to do those five things each time you meet with them.
Eric Cross (42:12):
Dr. Fisher, thank you so much for being here and for your encouragement, and sharing your wisdom and experience. And then personally serving my city, here in San Diego, and my students, when they make it to your high school and ultimately the alma mater of San Diego State University.
Douglas Fisher (42:30):
That’s right.
Eric Cross (42:31):
Yeah. We really, really appreciate you in serving all kids and lifting the bar and making things more equitable for all students. And encouraging teachers. So thank you.
Douglas Fisher (42:39):
Thank you very much.
Eric Cross (42:42):
Thanks so much for listening to my conversation with Dr. Douglas Fisher, Professor and Chair of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University. Check out the show notes for links to some of Doug’s work, including the book he co-authored titled Reading and Writing in Science: Tools to Develop Disciplinary Literacy. Please remember to subscribe to Science Connections so that you can catch every episode in this exciting third season. And while you’re there, we’d really appreciate it if you can leave us a review. It’ll help more listeners to find the show. Also, if you haven’t already, please be sure to join our Facebook group, Science Connections: The Community. Next time on the show, we’re going to continue exploring the happy marriage between science and literacy instruction.
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I had this moment of realization I felt a few months ago: I’m like, if I don’t teach them how to use the AI as a tool, as a collaborator, then they’re gonna graduate into a world where they lose out to people who do know how to do that.
Eric Cross (43:39):
That’s next time on Science Connections. Thanks so much for listening.
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Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., is professor and chair of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and a leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College having been an early intervention teacher and elementary school educator. He is the recipient of an International Reading Association William S. Grey citation of merit, an Exemplary Leader award from the Conference on English Leadership of NCTE, as well as a Christa McAuliffe award for excellence in teacher education. He has published numerous articles on reading and literacy, differentiated instruction, and curriculum design as well as books, such as The Restorative Practices Playbook, PLC+: Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design, Building Equity, and Better Learning Through Structured Teaching.


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In this episode, Eric Cross sits down with Indiana State Teacher of the Year, Sharita Ware, to talk about how to successfully build meaningful student connections in the science classroom. Sharita shares her journey from a corporate career to becoming Indiana’s 2022 Teacher of the Year, and her passion for creating project-based lessons for her students. Together, Eric and Sharita discuss how educators can teach students to love science content by building strong relationships, adding in other content areas, and supporting students’ imagination. Explore more from Science Connections by visiting our main page.
Sharita Ware (00:00):
I try to create that equal playing field where there’s nobody’s voice, that’s more important than anyone else’s and try to make them all feel that what they have to say is important.
Eric Cross (00:14):
Welcome to science connections. I’m your host Eric. My guest today is Sheta where Sheta is the 2022 Indiana state teacher of the year. And in her 10 year career, as an engineering and technology teacher, she has dedicated herself to helping students build knowledge and skills for high school and life. Beyond. In this episode, we discuss how she inspires her seventh and eighth grade students to build problem solving and critical thinking skills through hands on real world and collaborative projects. She is as humble as she is knowledgeable and through our conversation, it was easy for me to see why her students feel successful under her guidance. And now please enjoy my conversation with Sharita Ware.
Eric Cross (00:59):
Can I start off by saying congratulations on teacher of the year. Thank you for the state of Indiana. Um, that’s amazing. So I, I, I did watch, uh, your videos, uh, short interviews, and then you spoke, was it Purdue? Yes. You were there. And so, uh, to see if fellow seventh grade, eighth grade science teacher out there being celebrated, like I was so excited, so yeah, I wanted to congratulate you on that and, and just kind of talk to you about like your teaching journey and ask you, uh, maybe just kind of start off with your story about what brought you into, into the classroom, especially the middle school.
Sharita Ware (01:29):
Classroom. So what happened is when I was working in industry as an engineer and when my husband and I got married, we decided that I was gonna, um, stay home with the kids because, you know, we wanted, um, our influence to be greater on our kids than, you know, the people that would be watching them, you know, because they would ultimately spend more time with them than they would with us. And, and so, um, I stayed home and when my youngest was going to be going to kindergarten the next year, I was like, okay, what am I going to do? Cuz I really don’t necessarily feel like I need to stay at home. Mm-hmm <affirmative> but um, I knew going back to industry would be a challenge just because in my field, I, I was traveling a lot before I got married and had kids.
Sharita Ware (02:14):
And so I knew that that wouldn’t really be conducive to again, raising children. So I, I get this email, my inbox for Woodrow Wilson, teaching fellowship at Purdue. And they were just looking for people in stem fields to go into teaching. And I was like, okay. And it was a national search, you know, I filled out the application, we had to go in and do some sample teaching mm-hmm <affirmative>. And I was picked as, as one of the, the teachers to go through the program. And I started off thinking I wanted high school. And the really cool thing about this, uh, program is that we had long observation periods at high school and at middle schools. And so we would go to a school and we’d stay there two or three weeks. And so it, it kind of gave you right. A little bit more insight to what happened on a daily basis. And after those observations, I was like, I like middle school better than I, uh, like high school. And so I just kind of went that direction and you know, the rest is history. So
Eric Cross (03:19):
I feel like our stories are similar because I went into teaching thinking I wanted to do high school because I like the maturity and you a little bit more sophistication, advanced things, but yes, middle school, I felt like I can, I could get them more upstream before and kind of help shape mm-hmm <affirmative> that experience for them? Because I feel like at middle school is really where they kind of decide like what they can do based on their experiences.
Sharita Ware (03:39):
I found in the middle school that the kids, I mean, they just, they clamor around you and they’re like, what are we doing today? You know? And they get so excited and, um, they’re, they’re just, I don’t know, I guess in some ways, just more hungry in the sense of like they’re willingness to, um, now sometimes they’re a little reluctant, but you know, their willingness just to try new things. And I think, um, my students really what I have found over the years that they have found a safe space and I hear the kids, you know, say to me so many times that, you know, it it’s safe. I feel, I feel safe in here. And, and it’s not something that in my mind I’m thinking about, oh, I need to make this a safe place. It’s just, I guess part of just who I am as a person has created this environment of, of safety and, and the kids recognize that, you know, I don’t play favorites. You know, everybody starts out mm-hmm, <affirmative> on equal footing. I, I don’t care what your backstory is. I don’t care how many times I see you in the hallway when I’m walking during my prep. You know, when you hit my room, I’m, I’m gonna treat you the same way on day one, that I treat everybody else.
Eric Cross (04:54):
You really understand how to build culture with, in, with your classroom, with your students. And, and you said they feel safe, but is there anything that you do that someone could like apply? And like you found that you’ve gotten a lot of just relational capital through doing these things, or is it just your personality? Like how, how do you build those connections?
Sharita Ware (05:12):
You know, growing up being a, a very quiet person. I, I think a lot of times my voice was ignored because I was the quiet kid in the back of the room. And oftentimes I became seen or heard because of my work, you know, in the beginning it was kind of like, oh, she’s just this quiet girl in the back of the room. And then, you know, the first essay was due or the first project was due. And then it was like, oh, you know, then you’re the person to be on, you know, people’s teams. And, and that, I don’t know, that always kind of bothered me because, you know, I’m thinking just because you’re not the loudest person in the room doesn’t mean that you don’t have something to say, mm-hmm <affirmative>, you just might not be talking all the time. You know? And, and so for my students, I just, I try to create that equal playing field where there’s, nobody’s voice, that’s more important than anyone else’s and try to make them all feel like that what they have to say, or what they have to contribute is, is enough, is good.
Sharita Ware (06:14):
Enough is important as…
Eric Cross (06:16):
It is, as it is. And there’s probably a lot of things that you do. But in addition to building these relationships, what do you do? Like how do you make your learning fun for students?
Sharita Ware (06:25):
I think, um, I’m also a little bit on the silly side. Um, we do a, a Barbie prosthetic leg project, and this was after trial and error of having the kids make full size prosthetic legs. And I try to make it as real world as possible, but with none of the children being amputee or, you know, having access to someone, it was really hard for them to really visualize what needed to happen. Mm-hmm <affirmative>. And so, um, I found this Barbie that had a prosthetic leg and I was like, well, LA, so I just started collecting Barbies and chopping their legs off <laugh>. And so I have this jar of Barbie legs. And so, and I said, you’re gonna make prosthetic legs. And I lay this jar of legs on the counter and the kids are like, like they gasp and then they crack up and then they’re like, okay, this lady’s crazy. So…
Eric Cross (07:22):
That’s when you take off your scarf and there’s this necklace of just Barbie legs that are just around and you’re like, I’m a middle school teacher and they go, oh, okay. I understand. Yeah. Yeah. It’s totally fine. Is this a lesson that someone that you made up or is it something that you’ve re remixed? Is it something that someone could do if they looked it up anywhere?
Sharita Ware (07:38):
Um, so I think teach engineering has the, the full size leg that the kids make. And that’s where I initially got it from.
Eric Cross (07:47):
Is that the website teach engineering?
Sharita Ware (07:49):
Yes. And, um, I, in fact, I get lots of ideals from there. Um, and I, I always usually tweak them, but it’s, it’s one of those things that kind of gets your brain going. And so it was kind of a mixture of, uh, project lead the way gateway to technology and the teach engineering. And I think the project lead the way had us making like braces, uh, for, um, kids with, um, like cerebral palsy or, or something like that. And the kids did okay with that project. Uh, but I wanted to go just a little bit, uh, deeper with it because part of what I was wanting them to do is that context and that connection, that human connection, because for me, it’s not just enough for them to make a project. Uh, before we start this prosthetic leg, I read them a story out of a Scholastic magazine, and it’s a, a teenage girl that lost her leg in a boating accident.
Sharita Ware (08:42):
And she was super active, um, playing sports and running. And, and so I was, you know, trying to get the kids to, you know, make that connection, someone close to their age. Um, and then how it’s not, it’s, it’s more than about her physical healing. It’s also about her mental healing and how she had to, you know, talk to herself to say that she could, you know, recover and, and come back from this and still go on to do all of the things that she was doing before. Um, and in some ways it’s kind of cool because, um, you know, she has a running prosthetic, she has a, a swimming prosthetic, and she has her every day with the pain and toils prosthetic. So just trying to, you know, help them to see that it’s more than just the, you know, the biomedical mechanical engineering aspect of the project.
Sharita Ware (09:30):
And so they have to design for comfort. They have to design for, um, swelling. And then, um, they also can, if they, if they want to, they don’t have to, if they want to, they can create their own backstory. So when they get there, um, we have a day where they are introduced to their client, so they get to meet their Barbie and, and then they get to decide if they want a backstory and, and then do their research based off of that. So if it’s someone that was a runner, then they can design a prosthetic running blade. So just, they have lots of, uh, flexibility.
Eric Cross (10:04):
The, that aspect of adding the narrative. It does so much for like listening to it on the outside. It one, it adds this humanity to, you know, what can sometimes just feel like it may be cold, logical stem. We’re just, we’re just doing things. We’re fixing things. We’re, you know, we’re discovering things, but really the stem has value when we’re actually applying it to, to, to serve humanity or our ecosystem or whatever it is. There was a, a coding, uh, class I was doing with my students and I showed them this app called be my eyes. And it’s for people who are visually impaired and it pairs them with a volunteer. And when they call, and there’s a whole huge pool of volunteers and I’m one of them. And when my, when it happens in class, I answer and it uses the FaceTime. So the person who’s visually impaired is holding up their phone and you see what they see and you tell them and real time what’s happening.
Sharita Ware (10:54):
Oh, wow. That’s so cool.
Eric Cross (10:56):
These are, these were the things I think for students that the story, the, the human part of it, mm-hmm, <affirmative>, it must bring in so many more students into engagement.
Sharita Ware (11:05):
Yeah. I, I feel like it does because I, I think, um, and, you know, along the journey, they kind of lose, um, they lose sight a little bit because, you know, they get out in the lab and they have access to all of these different materials. And I think, you know, truly making it, you know, project based for me is I try not to control the materials too much. Um, I try not to make it so wide that they just get lost, but I try to throw a few curve balls in there, you know, of, of materials that really don’t make sense to use, but they kind of think they make sense to use. Um, because the, the, the meat of it is that the prosthetic leg is a similar size of the original leg and that the, the knee functions. And so I don’t limit, and I grade them off of efficient use of materials.
Sharita Ware (11:59):
So, and that just throws them off because I think, well, how many Popsicle sticks can I use? And I’m like, you can use as many as you like, but remember, this is a prosthetic leg that, um, your Barbie, which is one six scale, um, is going to be wearing all day. So you could think that a Popsicle stick, if you chose to use a Popsicle stick is kind of like dragging around a two by four <laugh>, you know? So do, is that what you really want to use as your material? And some of the kids really think about it and saying, okay, I’m, I’ve got this aluminum rod, okay. This is probably what I would use for my bone structure, because it’s lightweight, but yet it is supportive. And then sometimes they come up with their own ideas in terms of materials, like one student brought in his, um, 3d doodle pin mm-hmm <affirmative> and he made joints and everything with this pin.
Sharita Ware (12:54):
And I’m, and I had delayed buying one, cause I’m like, I, how do you have control over that thing? Mm-hmm <affirmative> he brought that in and he did probably two or three iterations of it and, and got it to work where even the knee where it bit back 90 degrees, but it stopped. He made like, so that it didn’t bend forward. It blows my mind. I’m like so many UN unexpected things have, have happened just from my, um, teaching style. Now I did have, my first few years, I had a, a teaching coach, um, come in and, um, I asked her to come into my room because I just wanted to make sure because I was not a traditional teacher. She said, this classroom is amazing. And, and I think the one thing that she helped me with was, was purpose and consistency and the sense of making sure that with the standards that all of these cool things and ways of being, um, that I was doing in my classroom, that, that I kept it purposeful and intentional. So many times as educators, I know in having student teachers again, ask yourself the question, what is the big picture I want the kids to take away. And once you ask that question, then everything that you have them do will lead to that big picture. Well, it should lead to that big picture.
Eric Cross (14:22):
So it sounds like they’re, you’re starting with this end goal in mind and then kind of backwards planning to get there. Yeah. Do you think you would’ve been the same type of teacher if you would’ve gone straight from college into the classroom? No. And if, if, no, as you’re shaking your head, what do you think it is about? Cause I’ve been asking myself these questions, like just over the years, what is it about coming from industry and going into the classroom? Do you feel like, is how has that impacted you in how you teach?
Sharita Ware (14:45):
Well, I think it’s twofold cuz I was older. I already had three children. I think the combination for me, I think is I was already a mom and I had worked in industry. So the behavior aspect of kids and, and then having that real world experience. And I, I just feel like whether it’s in the classroom, um, marriage, kids, to me, it’s 90% relationship, you know, and the rest will work itself out. That’s, that’s just my, my take on it. But I, I feel like having kids, so some of the behavioral things I kind of was aware of, you know, and just learned many times just not to react to some of the things that they did.
Eric Cross (15:31):
Which is huge. Right. Especially in middle school is controlling your reactions.
Sharita Ware (15:35):
Yes. Cuz that’s what they want. You know? And, and I had this student last year as well. She’s brilliant. And so if she cannot wrap her mind around the purpose of what you’re doing and, and you’re pushing her to do something that she doesn’t think is necessary, mm-hmm <affirmative>, she kind of has these meltdowns. And, and so we just had this, you know, I don’t know, we just came to this understanding and it, and it works to control the meltdowns. I tried to make sure. And, and I used her as a gauge because I knew she wasn’t, she wasn’t getting upset because she didn’t understand. She didn’t understand the why mm-hmm <affirmative>. And so I felt like if she got the why then so would everyone else. So when she, if she was okay with it, then I was like, okay, then I must have explained it well enough.
Sharita Ware (16:25):
And so in my mind that I really need to make sure they understand the, again, going back to that purpose <laugh> and intention, making sure that that is clear. And then I think that’s what gets lost. Sometimes mm-hmm <affirmative> uh, with us as teachers, we, we know where we want the kids to go and we want us to trust the process, you know, just do it because I said so, but sometimes, you know, empowering your children to under to understand the why, because that again is what allows them to be able to do bigger and greater things on their own. So on that next project comes along. They’re starting to tell you, well, first we need to make sure we understand what, um, we’re being asked to do to do. So we have to define the question. We have to make our driving question that will help us stay focused. And, and you’re just standing up there going, okay, now you don’t need me. I’ll go here and sit down. <laugh> so it’s, uh, it is really cool.
Eric Cross (17:28):
Now I’m thinking about my own kids. Like, do my students know the why behind the lesson we did today? It’s one area of growth that I wanna make sure I do this year with my students. And so I really appreciate that. So the, and you just hit on something that is, has been in the forefront of my mind lately and math and English as you know, tend to be prioritized in schools everywhere because it’s what state tested. And it’s what, you know, this is a whole other conversation, but I’ve been talking to math teachers frequently about one of the challenges that they experience or they’ve been telling me is that math is kind of taught. Like it’s just computational, you’re solving these problems, but it’s really separated from any real life application. A lot of times, you know, it’s pizza or gumballs or, or just fictional scenarios and students don’t perform well many times. And some of the reasons why is cuz just no connection. I don’t want to solve puzzles. Like it’s not my jam. Do you have any just inside or, or perspective on how math is, is taught in maybe a way that you think it would students would benefit more?
Sharita Ware (18:32):
You know how kids learn in elementary school, you’ve got this, the same teacher teaching all of the subjects. And so wouldn’t that be an awesome opportunity for you to have like these, these projects where I feel like you could, a class could legit work on the same project for a whole entire year. And so couldn’t the English be writing your persuasive letter to the mayor, asking him to do this or do that. And the process of doing that they’re, they’re, they’re writing with a purpose with a true purpose. Um, and then when they’re doing math, you know, they want, they want a new neighborhood park. So, you know, well how much is this gonna cost? Well, math, what size is it gonna be math? Let’s see what it looks like, art, you know, you just, you have all of this things. And then of course then science.
Sharita Ware (19:32):
So if it’s on a heel, how can we, you know, deal with erosion? And you know, you can just pull so many different things into that. And so not only are they learning, but they’re narrowed in and focused on a project, they’re, they’re able to dive deep into, you know, learning more of learning, how to express themselves and communicate with real people. So it’s more of taking these compartmentalized learning that we do in middle school and high school. Mm-hmm, <affirmative> where you’re almost learning apprenticeship style. Mm-hmm <affirmative>, you know, you have these master educators and it’s not about them being the best at math or being the best at this or that. Cuz there’s so many tools now that could help you through that. But you’re, you’re giving, you’re teaching them so many life skills and so many ways to think and problem solve that, that we’re just that the kids just don’t have.
Eric Cross (20:27):
I think that that is amazing. And I think that in that situation, what I’m hearing is we’re going deeper, not wider because there are a lot of different concepts that kids are expected to learn. Or I should say there are several concepts that teachers are expected to teach doesn’t necessarily mean that our kids are learning, but we’re teaching them. And this way you’re embedded it into an authentic context. Students are able to go through this cycle just like real life. And then they’re also able to build these kind of really transdisciplinary skills. Not only am I learning the math, the English, the the, but I’m also learning the interpersonal skills of being able to sell myself and present myself in a way that’s winsome. And it’s especially powerful coming from someone from industry. Last question, even just listening to you, I know you, you are this for a lot of people, but I wanted to ask you who inspires you?
Sharita Ware (21:14):
I think there have been lots of people over the years. Like I’m thinking of my shop teacher who has since, uh, the last few years passed away. Um, he was one of those people, I think similar personality to me, super quiet person, but he was always in the background on my journey and his name was Joe Mo and we called her Madam Carol was my 10th grade English lit teacher. And she was the one that started reading my work out in front of the class. And you know, and that just gave me courage, not so much to be seen. Uh, but that the work I was doing was, was good. And, and I think I needed that kind of encouragement. Lastly, my students inspire me because when I look at their faces and see the excitement, I think of those students for the first time and, and, and think about this seventh and eighth graders for the first time feeling like they really have something to say, they really have something to contribute of value. And, and I do it for them. You know, the reason why I am here in this moment is because of them. Um, without them, you wouldn’t be talking to me <laugh>
Eric Cross (22:37):
This is, this is true. This is, this is true. You would probably never say this about yourself, but you just exude a humility and a service in how you talk about your students and yourself. And I just wanna thank you for using your gifts, but I don’t wanna just call them gifts because it makes it sound like you didn’t earn ’em and your skills that you’ve earned and worked very hard to acquire over the years to go back into the classroom and leave industry, cuz you, you could have gone back to industry too, but you decided not to. And you could have worked in the industry and your hours were a little different pay is a little different, but you came back to serve the kids of Indiana and because of you and because of that choice, those students have a brighter future and believe in themselves and they’re finding their voice. And I want to thank you for that and for representing all of us stem teachers who are in middle school and being that leader. So thank you for that and thank you for being on the podcast.
Sharita Ware (23:24):
You’re welcome. Thank you for having me.
Eric Cross (23:28):
Thank so much for listening. Now we wanna hear more about you in the amazing work you’re doing for students. Do you have any educators who inspire you? You can nominate them as a future guest on science connections by emailing stem, amplifycom.wpengine.com. That’s ST E M amplifycom.wpengine.com. Make sure to click, subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and join our Facebook group science connections, the community until next time.
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Sharita Ware, a Purdue University graduate, is in her 10th year of teaching engineering and technology education to middle school students in the Tippecanoe School Corporation. Ware challenges her students with real-world, problem-based design scenarios that will help them contribute to global technology and integrated STEM. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

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Each lesson within Amplify Desmos Math California follows the same structure.
Warm-Up: Every Amplify Desmos Math California lesson begins with a whole class Warm-Up. Warm-Ups are an invitational Instructional Routine intended to provide a social moment at the start of the lesson in which every student has an opportunity to contribute. Warm-Ups may build fluency or highlight a strategy that may be helpful in the current lesson or act as an invitation into the math of the lesson.
Lesson Activities: Each lesson includes one or two activities. These activities are the heart of each lesson. Students notice, wonder, explore, calculate, predict, measure, explain their thinking, use math to settle disputes, create challenges for their classmates, and more. Guidance is provided to help teachers launch, monitor, and connect student thinking over the course of the activity.
Synthesis and Show What You Know: The Synthesis is an opportunity for the teacher and students to pull all the learning of the lesson together into a lesson takeaway. Students engage in a facilitated discussion to consolidate and refine their ideas about the learning goals, and the teacher synthesizes students’ learning. Show What You Know is a daily assessment opportunity for students to show what they know about the learning goals and what they are still learning.
Practice and Differentiation: Daily practice problems for the day’s lesson are included both online and in the print Student Edition, including fluency, test practice, and spiral review.

Routines
Amplify Desmos Math California features a variety of lesson routines. Instructional routines and Math Language Routines (MLRs) are used within lessons to highlight student-developed language and ideas, cultivate conversation, support mathematical sense-making, and promote meta-cognition. Both are called out at point-of-use within the Teacher Edition and Teacher Presentation Screens. Below are the types of routines used throughout the Amplify Desmos Math California curriculum:
Math Language Routines
- MLR1: Stronger and Clearer Each Time
- MLR2: Collect and Display
- MLR3: Critique, Correct, Clarify
- MLR5: Co-Craft Questions
- MLR6: Three Reads
- MLR7: Compare and Connect
- MLR 8: Discussion Supports
Instructional Routines
- Decide and Defend
- Notice and Wonder
- Number Talk
- Tell a Story
- Think-Pair-Share
- Which One Doesn’t Belong?
Category 3: Assessments
A variety of performance data in Amplify Desmos Math California provides evidence of student learning, while helping students bolster their skills and understanding.
Unit-Level Assessment
Amplify Desmos Math California has embedded unit assessments that offer key insights into students’ conceptual understanding of math. These assessments provide regular, actionable information about how students are thinking about and processing math, with both auto-scoring and in-depth rubrics that help teachers anticipate and respond to students’ learning needs.
Pre-Unit Check: Each unit begins with a formative assessment designed to identify the student skills that will be particularly relevant to the upcoming unit. This check is agnostic to the standards covered in the following unit and serves not as a deficit-based acknowledgment of what students do not know, but rather as an affirmation of the knowledge and skills with which students come in.
End-of-Unit Assessment: Students engage with rigorous grade-level mathematics through a variety of formats and tasks in the summative End-of-Unit Assessment. A combination of auto-scored (when completed digitally) and rubric-scored items provides deep insights into student thinking. All Amplify Desmos Math California End-of-Unit Assessments include two forms.
Sub-Unit Quizzes: Sub-Unit Quizzes are formative assessments embedded regularly in Math 1. In these checks, students are assessed on a subset of conceptual understandings from the unit, with rubrics that help illuminate students’ current understanding and provide guidance for responding to student thinking.
Performance Tasks: At the end of each unit there is a summative assessment performance task provided to evaluate students’ proficiency with the concepts and skills addressed in the unit.
Lesson-Level Assessments
Amplify Desmos Math California lessons include daily moments of assessment to provide valuable evidence of learning for both the teacher and student. Beyond formative, summative, and benchmark assessments, students also have opportunities for self-reflection with Watch Your Knowledge Grow. Students take ownership of their learning by reflecting and tracking their progress before and after each unit.
Show What You Know: Each lesson has a daily formative assessment focused on one of the key concepts in the lesson. Show What You Know moments are carefully designed to minimize completion time for students while maximizing daily teacher insights to attend to student needs during the following class.
Responsive Feedback™: Teachers have the ability to see and provide in-the-moment feedback as students progress through a digital lesson. Responsive Feedback motivates students and engages them in the learning process.
Diagnostic Assessment
Every grade level features an asset-based diagnostic assessment designed to be administered at the beginning of the year. Delivered digitally and to the whole class, our diagnostic assessment is uniquely designed to reveal underlying math thinking and identify what students know about grade-level math. With data beyond just right and wrong, teachers have the type of deeper level of insights need to take the right next step.
CAASPP-Aligned Assessment Preparation
Amplify Desmos Math is designed to support students’ mathematical development through problem-based learning, differentiation, and embedded assessments. The program’s emphasis on conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application aligns with the mathematical practices and content standards assessed by the CAASPP.
Amplify Desmos Math California includes a CAASPP-aligned Item Bank. This standards-aligned bank of questions allows teachers to filter and search by grade and standard to find items. Once assigned on the digital platform, students will experience CAASPP-like practice with the online digital tools.
Data and Reporting
Amplify Desmos Math California provides teachers and administrators with unified reporting and insights so that educators have visibility into what students know about grade-level math—and can plan instruction accordingly for the whole class, small groups, and individual students. Reporting functionality integrates unit assessments, lesson assessments, diagnostic data, and progress monitoring for a comprehensive look at student learning. Program reports show proficiency and growth by domain, cluster, standard, and priority concept using performance data from unit assessments, then highlight areas of potential student need to allow teachers to modify their instruction and target differentiated support.
Administrator reporting provides a complete picture of student, class, and district performance, allowing administrators to implement instructional and intervention plans.
Category 4: Access and Equity
The Amplify Desmos Math California curriculum provides teachers with lessons, strategies, and resources to eliminate barriers and increase access to grade-level content without reducing the mathematical demand of tasks. Our lessons are developed using the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to proactively ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.
Every activity has multiple entry points to ensure that all students are supported and challenged. Intervention and personalized learning activities are directly connected to the day’s content and offer students the individualized supports they need to be successful.
Each lesson and unit contains guidance for teachers on how to identify students who may need support, students who need to keep strengthening their understanding, and students who may be ready to stretch their learning. In addition, teachers are provided with recommendations for resources to use with each group of students.
Universal Design for Learning
Each lesson in the program incorporates opportunities for engagement, representation, action, and expression based on the guidelines of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
- Multiple Means of Engagement: Students engage in both print and digital learning, and are regularly participating in discussions and hands-on activities. Students are invited to build their own challenge for other students to solve, which provides opportunities for choice and
autonomy, as well as joy and play. - Multiple Means of Representation: Students are encouraged to demonstrate their learning using mathematical representations, both print and digital, and regularly engage with their peers in analyzing multiple possible solutions. Classes engage in open-ended discussions about what individual students notice and wonder about mathematical concepts.
- Multiple Means of Action and Expression: Learners differ in how they navigate learning environments and express what they know. Students can communicate their ideas in multiple ways, including in print, sketching, uploading photos, or recording an audio response.
Accessibility
Lesson Facilitation Supports
Every lesson includes at least one specific suggestion the teacher can use to increase access to the lesson without reducing the mathematical demand of the tasks. These suggestions address the following areas:
- Conceptual Processing
- Visual-Spatial Processing
- Executive Functioning
- Memory and Attention
- Fine Motor Skills
Accessibility Tools
Students have the ability to control accessibility tools so that each learning experience is customized to their individual needs. In many instances, these tools can be turned on or off at any point of instruction.
- Text to speech: Reads text instructions to students in multiple languages
- Enlarged font: Increases the size of all text on screen
- Braille mode: Includes narration of digital interactions
- Language selection: Toggles between languages
Differentiation: In-Lesson Teacher Moves
Within every lesson activity, teachers can use the suggestions in the Differentiation Teacher Moves table to provide in-the-moment instructional support while students are engaged in the work of the lesson. This table can help teachers anticipate the ways students may approach the activity, and provides prompts that they can use during the lesson to Support, Strengthen, and Stretch individual students in their thinking. Teachers are provided with clear student actions and understanding to look for, each matched with immediately usable suggestions for how to respond to the student thinking illustrated in each row of the table. In addition to using these suggestions in the moment as teachers monitor student work, teachers can review the Differentiation table in advance to help them anticipate how students are likely to approach the activity.

Differentiation: Beyond the Lesson
Teachers are provided with recommendations for resources to use with each group of students needing support, strengthening, and stretching after each lesson. Support, Strengthen, and Stretch resources include:
- Mini-Lessons: 15-minute, small-group direct instruction lessons targeted to a specific concept or skill
- Item Banks: Space for teachers to create practice and assessments by using filters and searching for standards, summative-style items, and more
- Fluency Practice: Adaptive, personalized practice built out for basic operations and more
- Extensions: Lesson-embedded Teacher Moves including possible stretch questions and activities for students
- Lesson Practice: Additional practice problems support every lesson
- Math Adventures: Strategy-based math games where students engage with math concepts and practice skills in a fun digital environment
- Lesson Summary Support: Support for students and caregivers that provides efficient explanation of the learning goal with clear examples
Math Identity and Community
The Math Identity and Community feature supports teachers in helping students build confidence in their own mathematical thinking, develop skills to work with and learn from others when doing math, and learn how math is an interwoven part of their broader community. The embedded prompts throughout the lessons are designed to highlight what it means to be good at math, the value of sharing ideas, and the power of flexible and creating thinking. Here are some examples of the Math Identity and Community supports embedded in each lesson:
- I can be all of me in math class. You will work with partners every day in math class. What do you want your partners to know about you?
- We are a math community. What does good listening look like and sound like in a math community?
- I am a doer of math. What math strengths did you use today?
Math Language Development
Every lesson in Amplify Desmos Math California includes opportunities for all students to develop mathematical language as they experience the content. Amplify Desmos Math California purposefully progresses language development from lesson to lesson and across units by supporting students in making their arguments and explanations stronger, clearer, and more precise. This systematic approach to the development of math language can be broken down into the following four categories of support:
- Vocabulary: Units and lessons start by surfacing students’ language for new concepts, then building connections between their language and the new vocabulary for that unit. This honors the language assets that students bring into their learning.
- Language Goals: Language goals attend to the mathematics students are learning, and are written through the lens of one or more of four language modalities: reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
- Math Language Routines: Math Language Routines are used within lessons to highlight student-developed language and ideas, cultivate conversation, support mathematical sense-making, and promote meta-cognition.
- Multilingual/English Learner Supports: Supports for multilingual/English learners (ML/ELs) are called out at intentional points within each lesson. These specific, targeted suggestions support ML/ELs with modifications that increase access to a task, or through development of contextual or mathematical language (both of which can be supportive of all learners).
Multilingual and English Learner Supports
Partnership with English Learner Success Forum
Amplify partnered with the English Learner Success Forum (ELSF), a national nonprofit organization that advocates for high-quality instructional materials that are inclusive of multilingual learners. ELSF reviewed Amplify Desmos Math California, and provided directional guidance and feedback to ensure that the program reflects their research-based instructional strategies for multilingual/English learners.
Math Language Development Resource
Our Math Language Development Resources book contains lesson-specific strategies and activities for all levels of English Learners (i.e., Emerging, Expanding, Bridging). With support for every lesson, teachers are empowered to help all students, regardless of their language skills, to participate fully, grasp the material, and excel in their mathematical journey.
Multilingual Glossary
Amplify Desmos Math California includes a digital glossary for languages other than Spanish. Translations will be provided for up to nine languages.
Spanish Version
Amplify Desmos Math California will include Spanish student-facing materials beginning in the 2026–27 school year.
Category 5: Instructional Planning and Support
Amplify Desmos Math California includes a variety of embedded instructional supports to empower teachers to lead effectively and gain actionable insights into student growth and progress. Teachers are equipped with a comprehensive set of resources designed to fulfill the requirements of Category 5.
Grade-level concepts
Within the Teacher Edition front matter:
- Scope and sequence
- Big Ideas, Drivers of Investigation, and Content Connections
- Grade level standards
- Standards for Mathematical Practice
- English Language Development Standards
- Environmental Principals and Concepts
Within each Unit and Sub-Unit Overview:
- Big Ideas, Drivers of Investigation, and Content Connections
- Math that Matters Most
- Grade level standards
- Standards for Mathematical Practice
- English Language Development Standards
- Environmental Principals and Concepts
Within each Lesson:
- Big Ideas, Drivers of Investigation, and Content Connections
- Grade level standards
- Standards for Mathematical Practice
- English Language Development Standards
- Environmental Principals and Concepts
How to implement the program
At the course level (within the Teacher Edition front matter):
- Navigating the Program (both print and digital)
- Facilitating Lesson Activities with Launch, Monitor and Connect
- Overview of the Digital Facilitation Tools
At the lesson level:
- Suggestions for timing
- What materials to prep
- How to organize and group students
- Key lesson takeaways with the Synthesis
- Recommendations for Differentiation
- Strategies for intervention and extensions (in the Intervention, Extensions, and Investigation Resources book)
At the activity level:
- Differentiation recommendations
- Accessibility tips
- ML / EL tips
- Teacher look-fors
- Recommended Teacher Moves
- Prompts for guiding student thinking
- Sample student responses
Development of Math Language
A variety of language development supports are provided within the Student and Teacher Editions and Math Language Development Resources book.
At the lesson level:
- Diagrams and visuals
- Sentence frames and word banks
- Graphic organizers, including Frayer models
- Vocabulary routines
- Embedded language supports aligned to the CA ELDs
- Lesson-specific strategies for Emerging, Expanding, and Bridging
At the unit level:
- Words With Multiple Meanings
- Contextual vocabulary
At the course level:
- English/Spanish cognates
- Multilingual Glossary
Other Curriculum Guidance
- Additional Practice Resources book
- Assessment Resources book
- Assess and Respond guidance paired with each assessment opportunity
- Show-What-You-Know activities
- Answer keys and rubrics
- Performance tasks
School year 2026–2027 requirements
| iPad® 7+ Description: 1024 x 788 or higher, 32GB or higher Operating system: iPadOS 18+ Browser: Safari 18+ |
| PC Description: 1.4 GHz dual core or greater, 1024 x 768 or higher, 4GB of RAM or higher Operating system: Windows: 10+ Browser: Chrome (latest 2 versions) |
| Chromebook Description: 1.4 GHz dual core or greater, 1024 x 768 or higher, 4GB of RAM or higher Operating system: Chrome OS Browser: Chrome (latest 2 versions) |
| Mac® Description: 1.4 GHz dual core or greater, 1024 x 768 or higher, 4GB of RAM or higher Operating system: macOS 15+ Browser: Safari 15+, Chrome (latest 2 versions) |
The following devices are recommended for optimal performance and experience:
| iPad | iPad Air® 4 iPad 8+ |
| Chromebook™ | Acer Chromebook 314 Samsung Chromebook 4 Dell™ Chromebook 3120 HP Chromebook x360 |
| Mac | MacBook Pro® MacBook Air® |
| Interactive Board | A Google certified EDLA device, such as the SMART RX Series |
The following devices are not supported due to known sub-optimal performance from older hardware or complicated settings:
| Microsoft | Surface Tablet® |
School year 2025–2026 requirements
| iPad® 7+ Description: 1024 x 788 or higher, 32GB or higher Operating system: iPadOS 17+ Browser: Safari 17+ |
| PC Description: 1.4 GHz dual core or greater, 1024 x 768 or higher, 4GB of RAM or higher Operating system: Windows: 10+ Browser: Chrome (latest 2 versions) |
| Chromebook Description: 1.4 GHz dual core or greater, 1024 x 768 or higher, 4GB of RAM or higher Operating system: Chrome OS Browser: Chrome (latest 2 versions) |
| Mac® Description: 1.4 GHz dual core or greater, 1024 x 768 or higher, 4GB of RAM or higher Operating system: macOS 14+ Browser: Safari 15+, Chrome (latest 2 versions) |
The following devices are recommended for optimal performance and experience:
| iPad | iPad Air® 4 iPad 8+ |
| Chromebook™ | Acer Chromebook 314 Samsung Chromebook 4 Dell™ Chromebook 3120 HP Chromebook x360 |
| Mac | MacBook Pro® MacBook Air® iMac® |
| Interactive Board | A Google certified EDLA device, such as the SMART RX Series |
The following devices are not supported due to known sub-optimal performance from older hardware or complicated settings:
| Microsoft | Surface Tablet® |
We will provide active support of our applications on the following devices for the full school year listed below.
Device final support year
| iPad 6 | 2024–2025 |
| iPad Air 3 | 2025–2026 |
| iPad 5 | 2022–2023 |
| iPad Air 2 | 2021–2022 |
| iPad 2 | 2018/2019 |
| iPad 3 | 2018/2019 |
| iPad 4 | 2018/2019 |
Network environment
| MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS | |
| User devices: | Connect to Amplify servers via ports 80 and 443. |
| Latency: | No more than 165 ms during peak utilization. |
| Connection speed: | 2 mbps per device during peak usage (10 mbps recommended). Boost Reading requires a connection speed of 10 mbps per user for optimal performance. |
| URLs: | For the complete list of URLs to allow, please visit https://amplify.com/allowlist/. |
Requirements
mCLASS assessments are optimized for most touchscreen devices using Chrome™ or Safari® web browsers. The teacher-led, observational assessments are best conducted using touchscreen but will function using a laptop and mouse as well. Please check our device support lifecycles and purchase recommendations lists below prior to purchasing.
Boost Close Reading is currently not supported on iPads.
Due to its smaller screen, the iPad Mini is not supported.
Amplify curriculum applications require the ability to project from the teacher’s device.
Boost Reading Benchmark uses speech recognition software to analyze students’ oral reading. For the most accurate results, use a wired dual-ear headset with a boom microphone that extends in front of the student’s mouth. Avoid headsets with active noise cancellation (ANC) unless that feature can be disabled. Bluetooth headsets are currently incompatible with our speech recognition technology and should not be used.
For Amplify ELA Mobile Solos the following devices are recommended for optimal performance and experience:
iPhone 13 and later running iOS 17+ and Safari
Galaxy 11 and later running Android 15+ and Chrome
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Amplify Science Named SIIA Education Technology 2019 CODiE Award Finalist for Best Emerging Instructional Technology Solution
Brooklyn, NY (May 7, 2019) Amplify, a publisher of next-generation curriculum and assessment programs, today announced that Amplify Science has been named a 2019 SIIA CODiE Award finalist in the Best Emerging Instructional Technology Solution category. Award finalists represent applications, products and services from developers of educational software, digital content, online learning services and related technologies across the PreK–20 sector.
Amplify Science is a breakthrough K–8 curriculum designed from the ground up for the Next Generation Science Standards by the curriculum experts at the University of California, Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science. In each Amplify Science unit, students inhabit the role of a scientist or engineer to investigate a real-world problem, using relevant, 21st-century contexts to investigate scientific phenomena. Educators who adopt Amplify Science receive a comprehensive curriculum that includes literacy-rich activities, hands-on investigations, digital simulations, embedded assessments, and robust teacher supports.
“We are honored that SIIA recognized the strength of Amplify Science and named us as a finalist in the CODiE awards,” said Steven Zavari, senior vice president and general manager, science curriculum, at Amplify. “We are excited to share this news about our innovative program with educators across the country.”
The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries and have recognized product excellence for more than 30 years. The awards have 76 categories that are organized by industry focus of education technology and business technology. Amplify Science was honored as one of 139 finalists across the 32 education technology categories.
“The 2019 CODIE Award finalists represent the finest in innovation and creativity in educational technology,” said President Jeff Joseph at SIIA. “These breakthrough products are opening doors for learners of all ages by developing and utilizing new technologies to respond to diverse student and educator needs.”
The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. Educators and administrators serve as judges and conduct the first-round review of all education nominees. Their scores determine the SIIA CODiE Award finalists, and SIIA members then vote on the finalist products. The scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners.
Winners will be announced during a CODiE Award Celebration at the Ed Tech Industry Conference & CODiE Awards in San Francisco on June 11.
Details about each finalist are listed at https://www.siia.net/codie/2019-Finalists
About Amplify
A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our captivating 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 turn data into practical instructional support to help all students build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves five million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.
About the SIIA CODiE™ Awards
The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology’s finest products and services. Since 1986, thousands of products, services and solutions have been recognized for achieving excellence. For more information, visit siia.net/CODiE.
About Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA)
SIIA is an umbrella association representing 800+ technology, data and media companies globally. Industry leaders work through SIIA’s divisions to address issues and challenges that impact their industry segments with the goal of driving innovation and growth for the industry and each member company. This is accomplished through in-person and online business development opportunities, peer networking, corporate education, intellectual property protection and government relations. For more information, visit siia.net.
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Amplify Reading named 2020 CODiE Award Finalist for Best Game-Based Curriculum Solution
Brooklyn, NY (April 20, 2020) — Amplify, a publisher of next-generation curriculum and assessment programs, today announced that Amplify Reading has been named a 2020 SIIA CODiE Award finalist in the Best Game-Based Curriculum Solution category. Award finalists represent applications, products, and services from developers of educational software, digital content, online learning services, and related technologies across the Pre-K–12 and higher education sectors.
Amplify Reading is a state-of-the-art supplemental digital literacy program that combines captivating storytelling, the latest literacy research, and sophisticated adaptivity to provide students with the exact instruction they need when they need it. Research has shown that the program enables students to make better-than-expected progress, reduces students’ risk for reading difficulty, and helps close achievement gaps for English learners.
Amplify Reading offers 50+ research-based games, each mapped to specific skills and standards that augment educators’ core instruction. The program also features an in-product companion called a Curioso who grows as younger students acquire skills. For older students, Amplify Reading immerses pre-teens in an interactive graphic novel where they join a rebel group to take on the machines and fight for the right to read again.
“It’s an honor to be named a finalist in the 2020 SIIA CODiE Awards,” said Melissa Ulan, senior vice president and general manager, supplementals, at Amplify. “We are thrilled to receive this recognition of Amplify Reading as an innovative and highly engaging program that helps students become strong and confident readers.”
For more than 30 years, the SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries, recognizing product innovation and excellence. The awards are organized by industry categories in education technology and business technology. Amplify Reading was honored as one of 157 finalists across the 37 education technology categories.
The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. Educators and administrators serve as judges and conduct the first-round review of all education nominees. Their scores determine the SIIA CODiE Award finalists, and SIIA members then vote on the finalist products. The scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners.
CODiE Award winners in education technology will be announced online May 19, 2020.
Details about the finalists can be found here.
About Amplify
A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our captivating 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 turn data into practical instructional support to help all students build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves five million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.
About the SIIA CODiE™ Awards
The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology’s finest products and services. Since 1986, thousands of products, services and solutions have been recognized for achieving excellence. For more information, visit https://www.siia.net/codie.
About Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA)
SIIA is an umbrella association representing 800+ technology, data and media companies globally. Industry leaders work through SIIA’s divisions to address issues and challenges that impact their industry segments with the goal of driving innovation and growth for the industry and each member company. This is accomplished through in-person and online business development opportunities, peer networking, corporate education, intellectual property protection and government relations. For more information, visit siia.net.
Amplify Science was named a 2018 SIIA CODiE Award finalist in the Best Science Instructional Solution and Best Emerging Instructional Technology Solution categories
New York, NY – (May 3, 2018) Amplify, a company that creates next-generation curriculum and assessment programs, announced that Amplify Science was named a 2018 SIIA CODiE Award finalist in the Best Science Instructional Solution and Best Emerging Instructional Technology Solution categories. Finalists represent applications, products, and services from developers of educational software, digital content, online learning services, and related technologies across the PreK-20 sector.
Amplify Science is a breakthrough K–8 curriculum designed from the ground up for the Next Generation Science Standards by the curriculum experts at University of California, Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science. In each Amplify Science unit, students inhabit the role of a scientist or engineer to investigate a real-world problem, providing them with relevant, 21st-century contexts through which to investigate scientific phenomena.
The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries and have been recognizing product excellence for over 30 years. The awards offer 91 categories that are organized by industry focus of education technology and business technology. Amplify Science was honored as one of 152 finalists across the 39 education technology categories.
“We are honored that Amplify Science has been recognized as a CODiE Award finalist for the strength of our K-8 science program and for our use of technology in science education. The CODiE judges are experts in education and technology, so this recognition is very meaningful and deeply appreciated,” said Steven Zavari, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Science at Amplify.
“I am impressed by the level of innovation and creativity demonstrated by the 2018 CODiE award finalists. These products are opening doors for learners of all ages by developing and utilizing new technologies to respond to student and educator needs.” said Ken Wasch, President of SIIA.
The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. Educators and administrators serve as judges and conduct the first-round review of all education nominees. Their scores determine the SIIA CODiE Award finalists, and SIIA members then vote on the finalist products. The scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners. Winners will be announced during a CODiE Award Celebration at the SIIA Annual Conference & CODiE Awards in San Francisco on June 13.
Details about each finalist are listed at http://www.siia.net/codie/Finalists
About Amplify A pioneer in K-12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our captivating 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 turn data into practical instructional support to help all students build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of all their students. Today, Amplify serves more than three million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.
About the SIIA CODiE™ Awards The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology’s finest products and services. Since 1986, thousands of products, services and solutions have been recognized for achieving excellence. For more information, visit siia.net/CODiE.
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Prepare Professional Development (PD)
Learning experiences to prepare for literacy and math instructional shifts
The following literacy and math sessions can help any educator—regardless of the program used—enhance their instructional practices.
- Science of Reading sessions offering research-backed strategies to deepen understanding and improve student outcomes.
- Problem-based approach to math sessions that empower educators to facilitate meaningful learning experiences and develop critical thinking skills.
- Multiliterate learner sessions enable educators to make a meaningful impact on students’ literacy development.

Professional learning journey

| Prepare | Begin | Practice | Advance |
| Learning sessions will help shift literacy and math instruction in areas such as the Science of Reading and/or problem-based approaches to math. | Program-aligned packages will support those who are new to Amplify programs. | Program-aligned packages will support those who have experience using Amplify programs. | Offerings will support advanced implementation, build capacity for instructional leaders, certify in-house trainers to deliver Launch sessions, and more. |
Science of Reading learning experiences
Listening to students read is magic. But knowing how to get them reading? That’s science.
Making the shift to the Science of Reading is no small feat, but participating in professional development sessions can help you make this change seamlessly.
Amplify Science of Reading sessions offer flexible, professional learning experiences for teachers that incorporate engaging activities grounded in what science tells us about literacy development.

Build your knowledge of the Science of Reading
Virtual | 90-minute session
This introductory session provides educators with a foundational overview of what the Science of Reading means and what it tells us about how to teach using evidence-based reading practices.
Participants will learn to:
- Define the Science of Reading by examining evidence-based research.
- Explain how two frameworks, the Simple View of Reading and the Reading Rope, work in tandem to guide effective literacy instruction.
- Identify instructional principles aligned to the Science of Reading.

Deepen your knowledge of the Science of Reading
On-site or virtual | 3-hour session
This session will build a base of common knowledge about the Reading Rope and support educators in identifying effective instruction grounded in the Science of Reading.
Participants will learn to:
- Identify the strands in the Reading Rope.
- Describe how each strand plays an important role in developing skilled readers and writers.
- Identify key look-fors in effective Science of Reading instruction.
Science of Reading: The Learning Lab online course
This series of three self-paced online courses, crafted by literacy expert Susan Lambert and built around International Dyslexia Association (IDA) Knowledge and Practice Standards, guides you through the essential Science of Reading skills and knowledge needed to teach students to read proficiently, as well as advanced strategies for aiding struggling readers. Each course builds on the last, equipping you with the tools and confidence to make a lasting impact on your students’ literacy journeys.
Benefit from flexible learning on an interactive platform spanning 20–25 hours of instruction. Each course is accessible for 12 months. Upon completion, you’ll be provided with a downloadable certificate, validating your new expertise in the Science of Reading.

Foundations to the Science of Reading
This course offers a comprehensive overview of research in the field. Each of the eight modules contains three lessons covering the foundations of literacy acquisition.
Explore the scope and sequence of Foundations to the Science of Reading with a Pacing Guide.
Access the free Preview Pass for this course.

Advanced topics in the Science of Reading: Assessment and reading difficulties
The second course is aimed at providing an in-depth examination of assessments, a deeper understanding of reading difficulties, and familiarity with pertinent legal frameworks for educators, all of which influence instructional decision-making.
Explore the scope and sequence of Advanced topics in the Science of Reading with our Pacing Guide.
Access the free Preview Pass for this course.

Coming soon!
Applied structured literacy
The final course in the series is designed to review key concepts and knowledge from previous coursework, explore fundamental aspects of structured literacy within lessons, observe and analyze structured literacy instruction in action, and investigate how data informs instructional decisions.
[Available June 2025]
New
Supporting multiliterate learner sessions
Unlock the magic of teaching multiliterate learners with evidence-based literacy practices. Making the shift to effectively support diverse readers in multiple languages is no small feat, but our professional development sessions are here to guide you effortlessly.
Empower your teaching with these engaging sessions, and make a meaningful impact on your multiliterate students’ literacy development.

Build your knowledge of multiliterate learners
Virtual | 90-minute session
This session provides educators with a foundational overview of how to teach multiliterate learners using evidence-based literacy practices.
Contact us to request a quote.

Deepen your knowledge of multiliterate learners
On-site or virtual | 3-hour session
This session will build an understanding of how the brain learns to read in multiple languages, as well as how to leverage cross-linguistic transfer, and align instruction to best practices for multiliterate learners.
Contact us to request a quote.
Problem-based approach to math instruction sessions
Elevate educational experiences by placing students’ ideas at the core of math lessons through problem-based learning. These sessions offer flexible professional learning experiences, allowing you to gain firsthand experience with a problem-based approach as a learner. You then learn to integrate this approach seamlessly into your teaching practices, bringing renewed energy to your math classroom.

Build your knowledge of a problem-based approach
Virtual | 90-minute session
This session provides you with a foundational overview of what an engaging problem-based approach in math entails for K–5 students.
During this session you’ll learn to:
- Explain how a problem-based approach to math brings delight to both teaching and learning and builds lasting student understanding.
- Identify actionable strategies for using a problem-based approach in a math classroom.
Contact us to request a quote.

Deepen your knowledge of a problem-based approach
On-site or virtual | 3-hour session
This session provides you with hands-on experience facilitating problem-solving in math, leaving you with an increased understanding of how to teach conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and applications of math.
During this session you’ll learn to:
- Explain how a problem-based approach to math brings delight to both teaching and learning and builds lasting student understanding.
- Identify actionable strategies for using a problem-based approach in a math classroom.
- Connect your current teaching practice to a problem-based approach, and choose a next step to implement a more problem-based approach.
Contact us to request a quote.

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A closer look at grades 6–8
Amplify Science California is based on the latest research on teaching and learning and helps teachers deliver rigorous and riveting lessons through hands-on investigations, literacy-rich activities, and interactive digital tools that empower students to think, read, write, and argue like real scientists.
In the 6–8 classroom, this looks like students:
- Collecting evidence from a variety of sources.
- Making sense of evidence in a variety of ways.
- Formulating convincing scientific arguments.
Is your school implementing the domain model? Click here.


Program structure
Our cyclical lesson design ensures students receive multiple exposures to concepts through a variety of modalities. As they progress through the lessons within a unit, students build and deepen their understanding, increasing their ability to develop and refine complex explanations of the unit’s phenomenon.
It’s this proven program structure and lesson design that enables Amplify Science California to teach less, but achieve more. Rather than asking teachers to wade through unnecessary content, we designed our 6–8 program to address 100% of the California NGSS in fewer lessons than other programs.
Scope and sequence
Every year our grades 6–8 sequence consists of 9 units, with each unit containing 10–19 lessons. Lessons are written to last a minimum of 45-minutes, though teachers can expand or contract the timing to meet their needs.

Unit types
Each unit delivers three-dimensional learning experiences and engages students in gathering evidence from a rich collection of sources, while also serving a unique purpose.
In grades 6–8, there are three types of units:
- One unit is a launch unit.
- Three units are core units.
- Two units are engineering internships.
Launch units
Launch units are the first units taught in each year of Amplify Science California. The goal of the Launch unit is to introduce students to norms, routines, and practices that will be built on throughout the year, including argumentation, active reading, and using the program’s technology. For example, rather than taking the time to explain the process of active reading in every unit in a given year, it is explained thoroughly in the Launch unit, thereby preparing students to read actively in all subsequent units.
Core units
Core units establish the context of the unit by introducing students to a real-world problem. As students move through lessons in a Core unit, they figure out the unit’s anchoring phenomenon, gain an understanding of the unit’s disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering practices, and make linkages across topics through the crosscutting concepts. Each Core unit culminates with a Science Seminar and final writing activity.
Engineering Internship units
Engineering Internship units invite students to design solutions for real-world problems as interns for a fictional company called Futura. Students figure out how to help those in need, from tsunami victims in Sri Lanka to premature babies, through the application of engineering practices. In the process, they apply and deepen their learning from Core units.
Units at a glance

Microbiome
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Launch
Student role: Microbiological researchers
Phenomenon: The presence of 100 trillion microorganisms living on and in the human body may keep the body healthy.

Metabolism
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Medical researchers
Phenomenon: Elisa, a young patient, feels tired all the time.

Metabolism Engineering Internship
Domains: Life Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Food engineers
Phenomenon: Designing health bars with different molecular compositions can effectively meet the metabolic needs of patients or rescue workers.

Traits and Reproduction
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Biomedical students
Phenomenon: Darwin’s bark spider offspring have different silk flexibility traits, even though they have the same parents.

Thermal Energy
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Thermal scientists
Phenomenon: One of two proposed heating systems for Riverdale School will best heat the school.

Ocean, Atmosphere, and Climate
Domains: Earth and Space Science, Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Climatologists
Phenomenon: During El Niño years, the air temperature in Christchurch, New Zealand is cooler than usual.

Weather Patterns
Domains: Earth and Space Science, Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Forensic meteorologists
Phenomenon: In recent years, rainstorms in Galetown have been unusually severe.

Earth’s Changing Climate
Domains: Earth and Space Science, Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Climatologists
Phenomenon: The ice on Earth’s surface is melting.

Earth’s Changing Climate Engineering Internship
Domains: Earth and Space Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Civil engineers
Phenomenon: Designing rooftops with different modifications can reduce a city’s impact on climate change.

Geology on Mars
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Launch
Student role: Planetary geologists
Phenomenon: Analyzing data about landforms on Mars can provide evidence that Mars may have once been habitable.

Plate Motion
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Geologists
Phenomenon: Mesosaurus fossils have been found on continents separated by thousands of kilometers of ocean, even though the Mesosaurus species once lived all together.

Plate Motion Engineering Internship
Domains: Earth and Space Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Mechanical engineering interns
Phenomenon: Patterns in earthquake data can be used to design an effective tsunami warning system.

Rock Transformations
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Geologists
Phenomenon: Rock samples from the Great Plains and from the Rocky Mountains — regions hundreds of miles apart — look very different, but have surprisingly similar mineral compositions.

Phase Change
Domains: Physical Science, Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Chemists
Phenomenon: A methane lake on Titan no longer appears in images taken by a space probe two years apart

Force and Motion Engineering Internship
Domains: Engineering Design, Physical Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Mechanical engineering interns
Phenomenon: Designing emergency supply delivery pods with different structures can maintain the integrity of the supply pods and their contents.

Chemical Reactions
Domains: Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Forensic chemists
Phenomenon: A mysterious brown substance has been detected in the tap water of Westfield.

Populations and Resources
Domains: Life Science, Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Biologists
Phenomenon: The size of the moon jelly population in Glacier Sea has increased.

Matter and Energy in Ecosystems
Domains: Life Science, Earth and Space Science, Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Ecologists
Phenomenon: The biodome ecosystem has collapsed.

Harnessing Human Energy
Domains: Physical Science, Earth and Space Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Launch
Student role: Energy scientists
Phenomenon: Rescue workers can use their own human kinetic energy to power the electrical devices they use during rescue missions.

Force and Motion
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Physicists
Phenomenon: The asteroid sample-collecting pod failed to dock at the space station as planned.

Phase Change Engineering Internship
Domains: Engineering Design, Physical Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Chemical engineering interns
Phenomenon: Designing portable baby incubators with different combinations of phase change materials can keep babies at a healthy temperature.

Magnetic Fields
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Physicists
Phenomenon: During a test launch, a spacecraft traveled much faster than expected.

Light Waves
Domains: Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Spectroscopists
Phenomenon: The rate of skin cancer is higher in Australia than in other parts of the world.

Earth, Moon, and Sun
Domains: Earth and Space Science, Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Astronomers
Phenomenon: An astrophotographer can only take pictures of specific features on the Moon at certain times.

Natural Selection
Domains: Life Science, Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Biologists
Phenomenon: The newt population in Oregon State Park has become more poisonous over time.

Natural Selection Engineering Internship
Domains: Engineering Design, Life Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Clinical engineers
Phenomenon: Designing malaria treatment plans that use different combinations of drugs can reduce drug resistance development while helping malaria patients.

Evolutionary History
Domains: Life Science, Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Paleontologists
Phenomenon: A mystery fossil at the Natural History Museum has similarities with both wolves and whales.
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High-impact, evidence-based programs that help students make gap-closing gains in reading and math
Amplify Tutoring engages students and drives measurable academic gains. We partner with districts to ensure that children become confident, proficient readers and mathematical thinkers.

About Amplify Tutoring
Grounded in evidence-based practices and taught by caring, consistent tutors, our high-impact tutoring programs use high-quality instructional materials and data-driven mCLASS® products to support and engage students.
- Personalized, data-driven instruction
- Research-backed solutions tailored to support your Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework
- Customizable—before, during, or after school; year-long, semester-long, and summer programming
- Comprehensive, hands-on program management and staffing support
Amplify Literacy Tutoring supports K–6 readers through engaging, systematic instruction aligned to the Science of Reading and driven by mCLASS DIBELS® data.
Amplify Math Tutoring accelerates student achievement in grades 3–5 and builds students’ confidence in speaking, writing, and thinking mathematically.
More than a program: a true partner
Hear directly from district leaders and educators who’ve experienced the Amplify Tutoring difference. In these candid conversations, they share how we partner to deliver solutions for schools, gains for students, and support for teachers.
Our impact
Amplify Tutoring accelerates learning for students who need it most. Students in Amplify Tutoring are more likely to achieve outsized academic gains than similarly at-risk peers in the same schools who are not enrolled in the program.
Reliable, easy-to-read data
With valid and reliable mCLASS assessments and real-time reporting always within reach, everyone involved in a child’s learning journey—from teachers and tutors to school leaders and families—can support student growth.
- Teachers have visibility into students’ data and all tutoring lesson content.
- School and district administrators receive regular tutoring attendance and progress-monitoring reports.
- Caregivers receive Home Connect letters and activities to help their child practice foundational skills at home.


High-quality instructional materials that power Amplify Literacy Tutoring
Amplify Literacy Tutoring includes high-quality resources to support students’ growth.
Targeted lessons generated by precise data
mCLASS Intervention is a research-backed, ESSA rated program that targets instruction based on students’ mCLASS DIBELS 8th Edition assessment results. With engaging lessons aligned to the Science of Reading that adapt based on students’ progress monitoring results, mCLASS Intervention streamlines time-consuming data analysis for teachers and makes sure that tutoring focuses on the literacy skills students need.


Transparency into student performance
mCLASS DIBELS 8th Edition is our nationally normed benchmarking and progress monitoring assessment tool to measure students’ foundational literacy skills. Students take the benchmark assessment three times a year and progress monitoring occurs every 7–10 lessons in between.
Proven impact for students who need it most
Boost Reading delivers targeted, adaptive practice that meets students where they are, while teachers get simple and meaningful insights into student progress. The program consistently moves students toward grade-level proficiency with just 30 minutes of use per week. Students can continue learning through Boost Reading between tutoring sessions or at home.

High-quality instructional materials that power Amplify Math Tutoring
Amplify Math Tutoring includes high-quality resources to support students’ growth.
Intervention Mini-Lessons aligned to core instruction
Amplify Desmos Math Mini-Lessons provide targeted intervention for students who require additional support or need more time. These lessons are aligned to the most critical topics throughout a unit; they enhance conceptual understanding while improving procedural fluency and application.

Valuable insights into student mathematical thinking
mCLASS Math is our benchmarking and progress monitoring assessment tool. Students take the benchmark assessment three times a year; progress monitoring occurs every 7–10 lessons in between.
Personalized practice—anytime and at home
Fact fluency practice provides students with regular practice beyond rote memorization. The program is used during tutoring sessions and is available on non-tutoring days. Students also have access to Boost Math’s independent learning activities, to continue practicing between tutoring sessions or at home.

Consultation and collaboration
Amplify Tutoring tailors our support for educators, schools, districts, caregivers, and state-level leaders, helping to realize the promise of high-impact tutoring programs. Through collaborative partnerships at every level, Amplify Tutoring engages communities in driving academic improvement and boosting attendance.
Our services can include:
Program design consultation: Amplify Tutoring offers expert program design consultation services to help schools and districts create effective and scalable high-impact tutoring programs.
Tailored onboarding: We provide customized training sessions for school, district, and state leaders, ensuring that Amplify Tutoring services are integrated smoothly into existing systems.
Ongoing professional development and coaching: Our program management includes continuous training, coaching support, and office hours with pedagogical experts to fortify the program’s success and adaptability.
Caregiver engagement: We offer resources and support for families and caregivers, including tips for at-home support, helping them stay informed and involved in their child’s progress.
Seamless communication and support: We provide transparent communication and engage all stakeholders—district and school leaders, teachers, caregivers, and students—to keep everyone aligned and informed.
Data reporting: We provide detailed reports and analytics to district and school leaders, giving them the power to monitor progress, make data-driven decisions, and celebrate successes.
Amplify Tutoring is part of a connected early literacy and math suite.
Our literacy and math suite programs are designed to support and complement each other in a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). Learn more about our related programs.
A closer look at grades 6–8 (domain)
Amplify Science is based on the latest research on teaching and learning and helps teachers deliver rigorous and riveting lessons through hands-on investigations, literacy-rich activities, and interactive digital tools that empower students to think, read, write, and argue like real scientists.
In the 6–8 classroom, this looks like students:
- Collecting evidence from a variety of sources.
- Making sense of evidence in a variety of ways.
- Formulating convincing scientific arguments.
Is your school implementing the domain model? Click here.


Program structure
Our cyclical lesson design ensures students receive multiple exposures to concepts through a variety of modalities. As they progress through the lessons within a unit, students build and deepen their understanding, increasing their ability to develop and refine complex explanations of the unit’s phenomenon.
It’s this proven program structure and lesson design that enables Amplify Science to teach less, but achieve more. Rather than asking teachers to wade through unnecessary content, we designed our 6–8 program to address 100% of the NGSS in fewer lessons than other programs.
Scope and sequence
Every year our grades 6–8 sequence consists of 9 units, with each unit containing 10–19 lessons. Lessons are written to last a minimum of 45-minutes, though teachers can expand or contract the timing to meet their needs.

Unit types
Each unit delivers three-dimensional learning experiences and engages students in gathering evidence from a rich collection of sources, while also serving a unique purpose.
In grades 6–8, there are three types of units:
- One unit is a launch unit.
- Three units are core units.
- Two units are engineering internships.
Launch units
Launch units are the first units taught in each year of Amplify Science. The goal of the Launch unit is to introduce students to norms, routines, and practices that will be built on throughout the year, including argumentation, active reading, and using the program’s technology. For example, rather than taking the time to explain the process of active reading in every unit in a given year, it is explained thoroughly in the Launch unit, thereby preparing students to actively read in all subsequent units.
Core units
Core units establish the context of the unit by introducing students to a real-world problem. As students move through lessons in a Core unit, they figure out the unit’s anchoring phenomenon, gain an understanding of the unit’s disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering practices, and make linkages across topics through the crosscutting concepts. Each Core unit culminates with a Science Seminar and final writing activity.
Engineering Internship units
Engineering Internship units invite students to design solutions for real-world problems as interns for a fictional company called Futura. Students figure out how to help those in need, from tsunami victims in Sri Lanka to premature babies, through the application of engineering practices. In the process, they apply and deepen their learning from Core units.
Units at a glance

Geology on Mars
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Launch
Student role: Planetary geologists
Phenomenon: Analyzing data about landforms on Mars can provide evidence that Mars may have once been habitable.

Plate Motion
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Geologists
Phenomenon: Mesosaurus fossils have been found on continents separated by thousands of kilometers of ocean, even though the Mesosaurus species once lived all together.

Plate Motion Engineering Internship
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Mechanical engineering interns
Phenomenon: Patterns in earthquake data can be used to design an effective tsunami warning system.

Rock Transformations
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Geologists
Phenomenon: Rock samples from the Great Plains and from the Rocky Mountains — regions hundreds of miles apart — look very different, but have surprisingly similar mineral compositions.

Earth, Sun, and Moon
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Astronomers
Phenomenon: An astrophotographer can only take pictures of specific features on the Moon at certain times.

Ocean, Atmosphere, and Climate
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Climatologists
Phenomenon: During El Niño years, the air temperature in Christchurch, New Zealand is cooler than usual.

Weather Patterns
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Forensic meteorologists
Phenomenon: In recent years, rainstorms in Galetown have been unusually severe.

Earth’s Changing Climate
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Climatologists
Phenomenon: The ice on Earth’s surface is melting.

Earth’s Changing Climate Engineering Internship
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Civil engineers
Phenomenon: Designing rooftops with different modifications can reduce a city’s impact on climate change.

Microbiome
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Launch
Student role: Microbiological researchers
Phenomenon: The presence of 100 trillion microorganisms living on and in the human body may keep the body healthy.

Metabolism
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Medical researchers
Phenomenon: Elisa, a young patient, feels tired all the time.

Metabolism Engineering Internship
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Food engineers
Phenomenon: Designing health bars with different molecular compositions can effectively meet the metabolic needs of patients or rescue workers.

Traits and Reproduction
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Biomedical students
Phenomenon: Darwin’s bark spider offspring have different silk flexibility traits, even though they have the same parents.

Populations and Resources
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Biologists
Phenomenon: The size of the moon jelly population in Glacier Sea has increased.

Matter and Energy in Ecosystems
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Ecologists
Phenomenon: What caused the mysterious crash of a biodome ecosystem?

Natural Selection
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Biologists
Phenomenon: The newt population in Oregon State Park has become more poisonous over time.

Natural Selection Engineering Internship
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Clinical engineers
Phenomenon: Designing malaria treatment plans that use different combinations of drugs can reduce drug resistance development while helping malaria patients.

Evolutionary History
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Paleontologists
Phenomenon: A mystery fossil at the Natural History Museum has similarities with both wolves and whales.

Harnessing Human Energy
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Launch
Student role: Energy scientists
Phenomenon: Rescue workers can use their own human kinetic energy to power the electrical devices they use during rescue missions.

Force and Motion
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Physicists
Phenomenon: The asteroid sample-collecting pod failed to dock at the space station as planned.

Force and Motion Engineering Internship
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Mechanical engineering interns
Phenomenon: Designing emergency supply delivery pods with different structures can maintain the integrity of the supply pods and their contents.

Magnetic Fields
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Physicists
Phenomenon: During a test launch, a spacecraft traveled much faster than expected.

Thermal Energy
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Thermal scientists
Phenomenon: One of two proposed heating systems for Riverdale School will best heat the school.

Phase Change
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Chemists
Phenomenon: A methane lake on Titan no longer appears in images taken by a space probe two years apart.

Phase Change Engineering Internship
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Chemical engineering interns
Phenomenon: Designing portable baby incubators with different combinations of phase change materials can keep babies at a healthy temperature.

Chemical Reactions
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Forensic chemists
Phenomenon: A mysterious brown substance has been detected in the tap water of Westfield.

Light Waves
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Spectroscopists
Phenomenon: The rate of skin cancer is higher in Australia than in other parts of the world.
Resources
A closer look at grades 6–8
Amplify Science is based on the latest research on teaching and learning and helps teachers deliver rigorous and riveting lessons through hands-on investigations, literacy-rich activities, and interactive digital tools that empower students to think, read, write, and argue like real scientists.
In the 6–8 classroom, this looks like students:
- Collecting evidence from a variety of sources.
- Making sense of evidence in a variety of ways.
- Formulating convincing scientific arguments.
Is your school implementing the domain model? Click here.


Program structure
Our cyclical lesson design ensures students receive multiple exposures to concepts through a variety of modalities. As they progress through the lessons within a unit, students build and deepen their understanding, increasing their ability to develop and refine complex explanations of the unit’s phenomenon.
It’s this proven program structure and lesson design that enables Amplify Science to teach less, but achieve more. Rather than asking teachers to wade through unnecessary content, we designed our 6–8 program to address 100% of the NGSS in fewer lessons than other programs.
Scope and sequence
Every year our grades 6–8 sequence consists of 9 units, with each unit containing 10–19 lessons. Lessons are written to last a minimum of 45-minutes, though teachers can expand or contract the timing to meet their needs.

Unit types
Each unit delivers three-dimensional learning experiences and engages students in gathering evidence from a rich collection of sources, while also serving a unique purpose.
In grades 6–8, there are three types of units:
- One unit is a launch unit.
- Three units are core units.
- Two units are engineering internships.
Launch units
Launch units are the first units taught in each year of Amplify Science. The goal of the Launch unit is to introduce students to norms, routines, and practices that will be built on throughout the year, including argumentation, active reading, and using the program’s technology. For example, rather than taking the time to explain the process of active reading in every unit in a given year, it is explained thoroughly in the Launch unit, thereby preparing students to read actively in all subsequent units.
Core units
Core units establish the context of the unit by introducing students to a real-world problem. As students move through lessons in a Core unit, they figure out the unit’s anchoring phenomenon, gain an understanding of the unit’s disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering practices, and make linkages across topics through the crosscutting concepts. Each Core unit culminates with a Science Seminar and final writing activity.
Engineering Internship units
Engineering Internship units invite students to design solutions for real-world problems as interns for a fictional company called Futura. Students figure out how to help those in need, from tsunami victims in Sri Lanka to premature babies, through the application of engineering practices. In the process, they apply and deepen their learning from Core units.
Units at a glance

Microbiome
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Launch
Student role: Microbiological researchers
Phenomenon: The presence of 100 trillion microorganisms living on and in the human body may keep the body healthy.

Metabolism
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Medical researchers
Phenomenon: Elisa, a young patient, feels tired all the time.

Metabolism Engineering Internship
Domains: Life Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Food engineers
Phenomenon: Designing health bars with different molecular compositions can effectively meet the metabolic needs of patients or rescue workers.

Traits and Reproduction
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Biomedical students
Phenomenon: Darwin’s bark spider offspring have different silk flexibility traits, even though they have the same parents.

Thermal Energy
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Thermal scientists
Phenomenon: One of two proposed heating systems for Riverdale School will best heat the school.

Ocean, Atmosphere, and Climate
Domains: Earth and Space Science, Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Climatologists
Phenomenon: During El Niño years, the air temperature in Christchurch, New Zealand is cooler than usual.

Weather Patterns
Domains: Earth and Space Science, Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Forensic meteorologists
Phenomenon: In recent years, rainstorms in Galetown have been unusually severe.

Earth’s Changing Climate
Domains: Earth and Space Science, Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Climatologists
Phenomenon: The ice on Earth’s surface is melting.

Earth’s Changing Climate Engineering Internship
Domains: Earth and Space Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Civil engineers
Phenomenon: Designing rooftops with different modifications can reduce a city’s impact on climate change.

Geology on Mars
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Launch
Student role: Planetary geologists
Phenomenon: Analyzing data about landforms on Mars can provide evidence that Mars may have once been habitable.

Plate Motion
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Geologists
Phenomenon: Mesosaurus fossils have been found on continents separated by thousands of kilometers of ocean, even though the Mesosaurus species once lived all together.

Plate Motion Engineering Internship
Domains: Earth and Space Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Mechanical engineering interns
Phenomenon: Patterns in earthquake data can be used to design an effective tsunami warning system.

Rock Transformations
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Geologists
Phenomenon: Rock samples from the Great Plains and from the Rocky Mountains — regions hundreds of miles apart — look very different, but have surprisingly similar mineral compositions.

Phase Change
Domains: Physical Science, Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Chemists
Phenomenon: A methane lake on Titan no longer appears in images taken by a space probe two years apart

Force and Motion Engineering Internship
Domains: Engineering Design, Physical Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Chemical engineering interns
Phenomenon: Designing portable baby incubators with different combinations of phase change materials can keep babies at a healthy temperature. Domains: Engineering Design, Physical Science

Chemical Reactions
Domains: Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Forensic chemists
Phenomenon: A mysterious brown substance has been detected in the tap water of Westfield.

Populations and Resources
Domains: Life Science, Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Biologists
Phenomenon: The size of the moon jelly population in Glacier Sea has increased.

Matter and Energy in Ecosystems
Domains: Life Science, Earth and Space Science, Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Ecologists
Phenomenon: The biodome ecosystem has collapsed.

Harnessing Human Energy
Domains: Physical Science, Earth and Space Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Launch
Student role: Energy scientists
Phenomenon: Rescue workers can use their own human kinetic energy to power the electrical devices they use during rescue missions.

Force and Motion
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Physicists
Phenomenon: The asteroid sample-collecting pod failed to dock at the space station as planned.

Force and Motion Engineering Internship
Domains: Engineering Design, Physical Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Chemical engineering interns
Phenomenon: Designing emergency supply delivery pods with different structures can maintain the integrity of the supply pods and their contents.

Magnetic Fields
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Physicists
Phenomenon: During a test launch, a spacecraft traveled much faster than expected.

Light Waves
Domains: Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Spectroscopists
Phenomenon: The rate of skin cancer is higher in Australia than in other parts of the world.

Earth, Moon, and Sun
Domains: Earth and Space Science, Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Astronomers
Phenomenon: An astrophotographer can only take pictures of specific features on the Moon at certain times.

Natural Selection
Domains: Life Science, Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Biologists
Phenomenon: The newt population in Oregon State Park has become more poisonous over time.

Natural Selection Engineering Internship
Domains: Engineering Design, Life Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Clinical engineers
Phenomenon: Designing malaria treatment plans that use different combinations of drugs can reduce drug resistance development while helping malaria patients.

Evolutionary History
Domains: Life Science, Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Paleontologists
Phenomenon: A mystery fossil at the Natural History Museum has similarities with both wolves and whales.
Resources
A closer look at grades 6–8 (domain)
Amplify Science California is based on the latest research on teaching and learning and helps teachers deliver rigorous and riveting lessons through hands-on investigations, literacy-rich activities, and interactive digital tools that empower students to think, read, write, and argue like real scientists.
In the 6–8 classroom, this looks like students:
- Collecting evidence from a variety of sources.
- Making sense of evidence in a variety of ways.
- Formulating convincing scientific arguments.
Is your school implementing the integrated model? Click here.


Program structure
Our cyclical lesson design ensures students receive multiple exposures to concepts through a variety of modalities. As they progress through the lessons within a unit, students build and deepen their understanding, increasing their ability to develop and refine complex explanations of the unit’s phenomenon.
It’s this proven program structure and lesson design that enables Amplify Science California to teach less, but achieve more. Rather than asking teachers to wade through unnecessary content, we designed our 6–8 program to address 100% of the California NGSS in fewer lessons than other programs.
Scope and sequence
Every year of our grades 6–8 sequence consists of 9 units, with each unit containing 10–19 lessons. Lessons are written to last a minimum of 45 minutes, though teachers can expand or contract the timing to meet their needs.

Unit types
Each unit delivers three-dimensional learning experiences and engages students in gathering evidence from a rich collection of sources, while also serving a unique purpose.
In grades 6–8, there are three types of units:
- One unit is a launch unit.
- Three units are core units.
- Two units are engineering internships.
Launch units
Launch units are the first units taught in each year of Amplify Science California. The goal of the Launch unit is to introduce students to norms, routines, and practices that will be built on throughout the year, including argumentation, active reading, and using the program’s technology. For example, rather than taking the time to explain the process of active reading in every unit in a given year, it is explained thoroughly in the Launch unit, thereby preparing students to actively read in all subsequent units.
Core units
Core units establish the context of the unit by introducing students to a real-world problem. As students move through lessons in a Core unit, they figure out the unit’s anchoring phenomenon, gain an understanding of the unit’s disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering practices, and make linkages across topics through the crosscutting concepts. Each Core unit culminates with a Science Seminar and final writing activity.
Engineering Internship units
Engineering Internship units invite students to design solutions for real-world problems as interns for a fictional company called Futura. Students figure out how to help those in need, from tsunami victims in Sri Lanka to premature babies, through the application of engineering practices. In the process, they apply and deepen their learning from Core units.
Units at a glance

Geology on Mars
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Launch
Student role: Planetary geologists
Phenomenon: Analyzing data about landforms on Mars can provide evidence that Mars may have once been habitable.

Plate Motion
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Geologists
Phenomenon: Mesosaurus fossils have been found on continents separated by thousands of kilometers of ocean, even though the Mesosaurus species once lived all together.

Plate Motion Engineering Internship
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Mechanical engineering interns
Phenomenon: Patterns in earthquake data can be used to design an effective tsunami warning system.

Rock Transformations
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Geologists
Phenomenon: Rock samples from the Great Plains and from the Rocky Mountains — regions hundreds of miles apart — look very different, but have surprisingly similar mineral compositions.

Earth, Sun, and Moon
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Astronomers
Phenomenon: An astrophotographer can only take pictures of specific features on the Moon at certain times.

Ocean, Atmosphere, and Climate
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Climatologists
Phenomenon: During El Niño years, the air temperature in Christchurch, New Zealand is cooler than usual.

Weather Patterns
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Forensic meteorologists
Phenomenon: In recent years, rainstorms in Galetown have been unusually severe.

Earth’s Changing Climate
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Climatologists
Phenomenon: The ice on Earth’s surface is melting.

Earth’s Changing Climate Engineering Internship
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Civil engineers
Phenomenon: Designing rooftops with different modifications can reduce a city’s impact on climate change.

Microbiome
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Launch
Student role: Microbiological researchers
Phenomenon: The presence of 100 trillion microorganisms living on and in the human body may keep the body healthy.

Metabolism
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Medical researchers
Phenomenon: Elisa, a young patient, feels tired all the time.

Metabolism Engineering Internship
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Food engineers
Phenomenon: Designing health bars with different molecular compositions can effectively meet the metabolic needs of patients or rescue workers.

Traits and Reproduction
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Biomedical students
Phenomenon: Darwin’s bark spider offspring have different silk flexibility traits, even though they have the same parents.

Populations and Resources
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Biologists
Phenomenon: The size of the moon jelly population in Glacier Sea has increased.

Matter and Energy in Ecosystems
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Ecologists
Phenomenon: What caused the mysterious crash of a biodome ecosystem?

Natural Selection
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Biologists
Phenomenon: The newt population in Oregon State Park has become more poisonous over time.

Natural Selection Engineering Internship
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Clinical engineers
Phenomenon: Designing malaria treatment plans that use different combinations of drugs can reduce drug resistance development while helping malaria patients.

Evolutionary History
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Paleontologists
Phenomenon: A mystery fossil at the Natural History Museum has similarities with both wolves and whales.

Harnessing Human Energy
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Launch
Student role: Energy scientists
Phenomenon: Rescue workers can use their own human kinetic energy to power the electrical devices they use during rescue missions.

Force and Motion
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Physicists
Phenomenon: The asteroid sample-collecting pod failed to dock at the space station as planned.

Force and Motion Engineering Internship
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Mechanical engineering interns
Phenomenon: Designing emergency supply delivery pods with different structures can maintain the integrity of the supply pods and their contents.

Magnetic Fields
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Physicists
Phenomenon: During a test launch, a spacecraft traveled much faster than expected.

Thermal Energy
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Thermal scientists
Phenomenon: One of two proposed heating systems for Riverdale School will best heat the school.

Phase Change
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Chemists
Phenomenon: A methane lake on Titan no longer appears in images taken by a space probe two years apart.

Phase Change Engineering Internship
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Engineering internship
Student role: Chemical engineering interns
Phenomenon: Designing portable baby incubators with different combinations of phase change materials can keep babies at a healthy temperature.

Chemical Reactions
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Forensic chemists
Phenomenon: A mysterious brown substance has been detected in the tap water of Westfield.

Light Waves
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Core
Student role: Spectroscopists
Phenomenon: The rate of skin cancer is higher in Australia than in other parts of the world.
Resources
A curiosity-driven K–12 program that builds students’ lifelong math proficiency
Meet Amplify Desmos Math. Our structured, problem-based approach builds on students’ curiosity while strategically developing math fluency and lasting grade-level understanding. Amplify Desmos Math for grades K–8 has been rated all-green by EdReports.
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.
Request a demo to see how math can motivate.
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 fuses problem-based lessons, intervention, personalized practice, and assessments to create a cohesive and engaging experience that maintains academic rigor while meeting the needs of 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. Connect with a product expert to see it in action.

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® Math 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—all while supporting students in building strong number sense, fluency, and conceptual understanding.


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.
Connect with a product expert to learn more.
Boost Math
Boost Math® drives tiered intervention and practice for grades K–8, bringing grade-level math within reach of every learner. Students are grouped into learning pathways based on assessment data for key math topics.
Visit Boost Math to learn more.

Personalized Learning
Personalized Learning™ extends each Amplify Desmos Math lesson with short, targeted digital activities designed around the day’s core concepts. Students receive just-in-time support based on their current understanding, helping them build fluency and confidence in the exact skills they’re working on in class.
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.


Elevate math instruction with Amplify PD.
Amplify Desmos Math offers targeted professional development (PD) sessions designed to enhance teaching strategies, improving student engagement and mastery of mathematical concepts. Gain insights and techniques to maximize instructional effectiveness.
What’s included
The program integrates print and digital resources, along with manipulatives and Centers Kits in grades K–5, to help students build mathematical understanding, reason through mathematical ideas, and express their mathematical thinking. Resources are designed to support the educational rigor of daily core math instruction.

For students
- Print Student Edition (two-volume)
- Digital access to lesson resources and practice
- Interactive Student Activity Screens
- Responsive Feedback™
- Collaboration tools
- Personalized Learning
- Hands-on manipulative kits
- Additional Practice

For teachers
- Print 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–A1)
- Math Language Development Resources
- Additional Practice

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
Amplify Classroom
Amplify Classroom is a free teaching and learning platform that places student engagement at the center of instruction.
Amplify 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 at classroom.amplify.com.
Our free lessons can be used alongside any core math program. Click here to view crosswalks to core programs.
Explore more programs.
Our programs are designed to support and complement one another. Learn more about our related programs.
A curiosity-driven K–12 program that builds students’ lifelong math proficiency
Meet Amplify Desmos Math. Our structured, problem-based approach builds on students’ curiosity while strategically developing math fluency and lasting grade-level understanding. Amplify Desmos Math for grades K–8 has been rated all-green by EdReports.
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.
Request a demo to see how math can motivate.
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 fuses problem-based lessons, intervention, personalized practice, and assessments to create a cohesive and engaging experience that maintains academic rigor while meeting the needs of 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. Connect with a product expert to see it in action.

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® Math 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—all while supporting students in building strong number sense, fluency, and conceptual understanding.


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.
Connect with a product expert to learn more.
Boost Math
Boost Math® drives tiered intervention and practice for grades K–8, bringing grade-level math within reach of every learner. Students are grouped into learning pathways based on assessment data for key math topics.
Visit Boost Math to learn more.

Personalized Learning
Personalized Learning™ extends each Amplify Desmos Math lesson with short, targeted digital activities designed around the day’s core concepts. Students receive just-in-time support based on their current understanding, helping them build fluency and confidence in the exact skills they’re working on in class.
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.


Elevate math instruction with Amplify PD.
Amplify Desmos Math offers targeted professional development (PD) sessions designed to enhance teaching strategies, improving student engagement and mastery of mathematical concepts. Gain insights and techniques to maximize instructional effectiveness.
What’s included
The program integrates print and digital resources, along with manipulatives and Centers Kits in grades K–5, to help students build mathematical understanding, reason through mathematical ideas, and express their mathematical thinking. Resources are designed to support the educational rigor of daily core math instruction.

For students
- Student Edition (two-volume)
- Digital access to lesson resources and practice
- Interactive Student Activity Screens
- Responsive Feedback™
- Collaboration tools
- 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
Amplify Classroom
Amplify Classroom is a free teaching and learning platform that places student engagement at the center of instruction.
Amplify 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 at classroom.amplify.com.
Our free lessons can be used alongside any core math program. Click here to view crosswalks to core programs.
Explore more programs.
Our programs are designed to support and complement one another. Learn more about our related programs.
Exciting updates are coming for Amplify Science!
As you prepare for the upcoming school year, we’re making it easier than ever to support your students with Amplify Science. From time-saving tools to expanded instructional resources, these improvements will help you even more to engage students in rigorous, hands-on learning while streamlining your teaching experience.

Updates
Geology on Mars and Light Waves updates
We’re committed to making sure our lessons align with current technology and resources, making improvements to keep our content relevant and accessible! With Google’s retirement of Google Mars, Lesson 1.2 of the Geology on Mars unit will be updated to instead feature a similar application from NASA. In addition, the hands-on activities in Lessons 1.2 and 2.1 of the Light Waves unit will be updated to support the use of LED flashlights rather than incandescents.

Improved navigation for a seamless experience
We’re rolling out a more intuitive navigation experience, making it easier to find what you need:
- A new sidebar menu allows for quick access to key educator resources like Content, the PD Library, and Apps.
- The Apps menu is now organized by subject, for streamlined access to teaching tools.

Discover free content
Explore a growing library of free math, science, and literacy content using the Discover button. You can even assign these activities to students through the digital platform, giving them more ways than ever to explore, engage, and learn!

Noteworthy features
PD Library
Amplify Science’s PD Library is your go-to destination for self-paced professional development. Whether you’re new to Amplify Science or looking to deepen your expertise, you’ll find high-quality training and resources tailored to your needs.

Caregiver Hub
Empower families to support student learning with the Amplify Science Caregiver Hub, a dedicated resource that provides curriculum overviews, background information, and helpful tools to extend learning beyond the classroom.

The digital experience
The digital experience is an add-on license for K–5 teachers and students that makes lesson planning and student engagement easier than ever. With ready-to-use slides-based lessons, integrated teacher prompts and guidance, interactive student opportunities, robust professional development resources, and more, this tool keeps everything in one place.
*Interested in using the digital experience? Contact your account representative to learn more.
Amplify Science classroom showcase
Looking for inspiring classroom examples from educators nationwide who are bringing Amplify Science to life? Check out the Amplify Science classroom showcase!

Become an Amplify Classroom Fellow!
Are you an Amplify Classroom (formerly Desmos Classroom) superfan or a math educator who loves using technology to make learning come alive? If so, consider applying to join the next Amplify Classroom Fellows cohort, a passionate community of math educators who inspire one another and help shape the future of Amplify’s products!
If you have any questions, reach out to amplifyclassroomfellows@amplify.com.

What is the Amplify Classroom Fellowship?

The Amplify Classroom Fellowship is a professional learning community of K–12 math educators who:
- Use Amplify Classroom to empower students’ mathematical thinking.
- Share insights, strategies, and inspiration with peers.
- Care deeply about making math learning accessible and engaging for all students.
As an Amplify Classroom Fellow, you’ll receive:
- Invitations to unique professional development experiences, both online and in person.
- Opportunities to connect with the Amplify Classroom Fellows community of peers and Amplify teams.
- Early access to learn about new features before other educators.


We ask participants to:
- Share experiences through presentations, publications, and educator events during the school year.
- Connect and collaborate with like-minded educators and Amplify teams.
- Attend an in-person New Fellows Orientation event in mid-July 2026.
Interested in becoming an Amplify Classroom Fellow?
Applications for Cohort 9 will open next winter.
If you have any questions, reach out to amplifyclassroomfellows@amplify.com.
What’s included in our Spanish language arts curriculum
Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts® (CKLA) is available in both English and Spanish. Amplify Caminos al Conocimiento Esencial, our robust Spanish language arts companion for grades K–5, supports multiple teaching models, including dual language immersion and transitional classrooms.

Year at a glance
The program’s intentional Knowledge Sequence from K–5 connects knowledge and vocabulary within a grade level and across grade levels, for deeper reading comprehension and preparation for college, career, and life. Instead of “activating prior knowledge,” Amplify Caminos helps you build it in the classroom from day one, for every child, expanding each student’s knowledge base long before they transition to reading to learn.

Units & domains at a glance
Each Knowledge Domain in grades K–2 and Unit in grades 3–5 varies in the number of days based on instructional purpose. Just as with our top-rated Amplify CKLA program, the Amplify Caminos materials engage and delight young learners with resources that are both appealing and original.

Domain
Nursery Rhymes and Fables/Rimas y fábulas infantiles
Start learning about literature with these classic Mother Goose rhymes.

Domain
The Five Senses/Los cinco sentidos
Learning about the body starts with learning about how we experience the world.

Domain
Stories/Cuentos
Learn about the parts of a book and some of the stories that go in one.

Domain
Plants/Plantas
Discover the lifecycle of plants and the history of George Washington Carver.

Domain
Farms/Granjas
Now we know how plants make their food… but what about animals?

Domain
Native Americans/Los nativos americanos
Who were the first people in America? A look at the Lenape, Wampanoag, and Lakota Sioux.

Domain
Kings and Queens/Reyes y reinas
To understand fairy tales, it’s best to first understand royalty.

Domain
Seasons and Weather/Las estaciones y el tiempo
The study of natural cycles continues with the weather and why it happens.

Domain
Columbus and the Pilgrims/Colón y los peregrinos
A look at the first contact between Europe and the Americas, and some of its results.

Domain
Colonial Towns and Townspeople/Las colonias y sus habitantes
Before the War for Independence, how did the town and country depend on one another?

Domain
Taking Care of the Earth/Cuidar el planeta Tierra
We only have one Earth—here are some ways to help care for it.

Domain
Presidents and American Symbols/Presidentes y símbolos de los Estados Unidos
Start learning about government through the lives of five presidents.

Domain
Fables and Stories/Fábulas y cuentos
Learn some of the key elements of a story through classic fables.

Domain
The Human Body/El cuerpo humano
What are germs? What are the organs? And what does it all have to do with health?

Domain
Different Lands, Similar Stories/Tierras diferentes, cuentos similares
A world tour of storytelling, and the stories that stay the same across the world.

Domain
Early World Civilizations/Antiguas civilizaciones del mundo
Rivers, farming, writing, and laws: just what does it take to build a civilization?

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Early American Civilizations/Antiguas civilizaciones de América
What will we find in the great temples of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca civilizations?

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Astronomy/Astronomía
How the Earth relates to the moon, the sun, and the rest of the planets.

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The History of the Earth/La historia de la Tierra
Just what lies beneath the Earth’s surface, and what can it teach us about the past?

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Animals and Habitats/Los animales y sus hábitats
A look at the connection between how animals live and where they make their homes.

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Fairy Tales/Cuentos de hadas
What do fairy tales have to teach us about how stories are told?

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A New Nation: American Independence/Una nueva nación: la independencia de los Estados Unidos
The story of the birth of the United States out of the 13 Colonies.

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Frontier Explorers/Exploradores de la Frontera
The story of the journey west from the newborn U.S.A. to find the Pacific Ocean.

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Fairy Tales and Tall Tales/Cuentos de hadas y cuentos exagerados
Learn about exaggeration and characterization on the frontier.

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Early Asian Civilizations/Antiguas civilizaciones de Asia
Tour the world of classical civilization, starting with India and China.

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Ancient Greek Civilization/La civilización griega antigua
The tour continues with the philosophy and politics of Greece.

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Greek Myths/Mitos griegos
Dive deep into the characters and storytelling of classic myths.

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The War of 1812/La guerra de 1812
Learn about America’s “Second War for Independence.”

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Cycles in Nature/Los ciclos de la naturaleza
Introducing the natural cycles that make our lives possible.

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Westward Expansion/La expansión hacia el oeste
Why did pioneers go west? What happened to the people who were there?

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Insects/Los insectos
Lay the grounds for animal classification by looking at solitary and social insects.

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The U.S. Civil War/La Guerra Civil de los Estados Unidos
Begin to grapple with U.S. history’s central crisis over slavery.

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Human Body: Building Blocks and Nutrition/El cuerpo humano: componentes básicos y nutrición
A deeper dive into the digestive system and the nutrition process.

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Immigration/La inmigración
Why did people immigrate to the United States, and what did they find here?

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Fighting for a Cause/Luchar por una causa
How people can do extraordinary things to make the world better for everyone.

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Classic Tales: The Wind in the Willows/Cuentos Clásicos: El viento en los sauces
A deep dive into character, theme, and POV in classic stories from around the world.

Unit 2
Animal Classification/La clasificación de los animales
How do we classify different animals by their appearance and behavior?

Unit 3
The Human Body: Systems and Senses/El cuerpo humano: sistemas y sentidos
Let’s take a closer look at how the skeleton, muscles, and nervous system all work.

Unit 4
The Ancient Roman Civilization/La civilización romana antigua
What is Rome’s greatest cultural contribution? In this unit, your students decide.

Unit 5
Light and Sound/La luz y el sonido
The science behind all the ways we see and hear the world.

Unit 6
The Viking Age/La era vikinga
An immersive narrative experience about what life was like in Viking communities.

Unit 7
Astronomy: Our Solar System and Beyond/Astronomía: nuestro sistema solar y más allá
More about our universe, including a writing project about daily life on a space station.

Unit 8
Native Americans: Regions and Cultures/Los nativos americanos: regiones y culturas
How did Native American nations change their way of life in different parts of the world?

Unit 9
Early Explorations of North America/La exploración europea de América del Norte
What was it like to sail to North America with the early European explorers?

Unit 10
Colonial America/La época colonial en los Estados Unidos
A study of the very different ways of life in the different pre-U.S. colonies.

Unit 11
Ecology/Ecología
Students keep ecologist’s journals to learn about our world and how best to protect it.

Unit 1
Personal Narratives/Narrativas personales
Read stories of personal experience… and learn to reflect on your own.

Unit 2
Empires in the Middle Ages/Los imperios en la Edad Media, parte 1 & Los imperios en la Edad Media, parte 2
Explore the medieval history of Europe and the Middle East.

Unit 3
Poetry/Poesía
Study the poetry of many nations using licensed text anthologies, and begin to write your own.

Unit 4
Eureka! Student Inventor/¡Eureka! Estudiante inventor
Transform the class into a lab for students to build and present inventions.

Unit 5
Geology/Geología
Plate tectonics, volcanoes, erosion: all the forces that shape the Earth.

Unit 6
Contemporary Fiction with excerpts from The House on Mango Street/Ficción Contemporánea con Fragmentos de La Casa en Mango Street
Explore The House on Mango Street… and write a book while doing it.

Unit 7
American Revolution/La Revolución estadounidense
Why did America seek independence? Let’s investigate the causes and effects.

Unit 8
Treasure Island/La Isla del Tesoro
How dSeek the treasure of plot in this detailed study of a classic fiction adventure.

Unit 1
Personal Narratives/Narrativas personales
Through writing and sharing their writing, students begin to identify themselves as writers.

Unit 2
Early American Civilizations/Las primeras civilizaciones americanas
Students craft a codex to explain the rise and fall of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca people.

Unit 3
Poetry/Poesía
Students close read many forms of poetry… and learn to write them.

Unit 4
Adventures of Don Quixote/Las Aventuras de Don Quijote
Was Don Quixote right to fight the windmill? In this full-length novel study, students decide.

Unit 5
The Renaissance/El Renacimiento
Exploring the art and literature of the Renaissance through the works of its masters.

Unit 6
The Reformation/La Reforma
How did the printing press transform the religion and society of Europe?

Unit 7
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream/Sueño de Una Noche de Verano de William Shakespeare
Students enter the world of Shakespeare by reading, designing, and acting out his work.

Unit 8
Native Americans/Los nativos americanos
How did the policies of the U.S. government impact Native American culture and lives?

Unit 9
Chemical Matter/Química
Students use knowledge of chemistry to solve a mystery.
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S5-01. Investigating math anxiety in the classroom

Season 5 is here! This season, we’ll be talking all about math anxiety: what it is, what causes it, and what we can do to prevent or ease this anxiety in the math classroom. To launch this very important theme, we sat down with Dr. Gerardo Ramirez, associate professor of educational psychology at Ball State University.
As someone who’s been studying math anxiety for more than a decade, he had some interesting research and advice to share on why math anxiety affects so many students (and adults), and tips for how to start reducing it.
Listen now and don’t forget to grab your MTL study guide to track your learning and make the most of this episode!
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Dan Meyer (00:01):
Hey, folks. Welcome back to Math Teacher Lounge. I’m one of your hosts, Dan Meyer.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (00:05):
And I am your other host. I’m Bethany Lockhart Johnson. Season five! Hello!
Dan Meyer (00:11):
Bethany, how are you doing? How have you been spending the long break between our recording sessions?
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (00:16):
As much as I loved sharing content from previous seasons, I am so thrilled that we’re back for season five. I have been, you know, chasing a toddler. I think he’s already tired of me saying, “Ooh, can we count that?” He’s like [sighs] “One two, one two.” Like, he’s done already.
Dan Meyer (00:36):
Too much counting. Yeah, I worry about that so much, that my love of mathematics might be perceived by my kids as smothering. Yeah, I worry about the same. We shared with you folks some bangers of reruns, in my humble opinion. Some great guests. But, we’ve been excited—me and Bethany—to hop back on the mics, on the ones and twos, and explore some new ideas together.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (01:01):
Well, I loved our season talking about joy in mathematics. And personally I could…like, we could turn this whole podcast into joy in mathematics. However, we’re kind of going a different route. Because if you ask folks why they don’t feel joy in mathematics, a lot of times at the root of that is some really intense math anxiety. So this whole season, we’re going to be delving into math anxiety. Exploring what it is, who has it, why do we think it happens, what do we think we can do about it, and how can we navigate through it, so that we can experience that joy in math? These are questions that we’re gonna explore over the course of the season. Dan Meyer, how do you feel about that?
Dan Meyer (01:49):
It feels big and it feels personal. I mean, as we shared in our math stories back from season…whatever it was, math anxiety was a huge part.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (01:59):
It was last season, Dan.
Dan Meyer (02:00):
Last…? I mean, who can remember? Big part of your journey. I’ve had some very punctuated but intense moments of anxiety in math class. And socially, we have built math up to be this incredibly powerful thing. You know, restricting movement on economic ladders, preventing people from getting into careers they want. Whether or not they have much to do with math class, math anxiety is a really large part of educational but also social life. And yeah, I’m really excited to explore it with you. We’re bringing on some really excellent guests. Some researchers, yes. But not just researchers! Also people who practice in the field and know firsthand what it looks like to resolve issues of anxiety with students.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (02:45):
Yeah, you’re right, Dan. My math story contained quite a bit of math anxiety, so I am particularly invested in this season. I mean, I still navigate math anxiety. And, you know, many of us do, and let’s talk about it. And let’s—I love that you reminded me. We’re gonna have a lot of great researchers all throughout the season, and a lot of times folks feel like the research happening, there’s sometimes a gap between researchers and what’s actually happening in the classroom. Not in all cases, but a lot of times. Right? And I remember a lot of conversation about the latest research when I was in grad school, but unless you’re actively studying something, sometimes we don’t know what’s happening. Right? We’re really focused on what’s happening right in front of us in our classroom. So let’s take some of that research; let’s break it down; let’s talk to some of the folks who are thinking about this for the bulk of their day, right?
Dan Meyer (03:41):
Yep. So we got our first guest coming up in a moment here.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (03:45):
So to kick off this season, we’re starting episode one by talking to Dr. Gerardo Ramirez, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Ball State University. And he’s been researching math anxiety for more than a decade. He’s worked with so many amazing folks in the field. He’s worked with students, he’s worked with teachers, with educators…I’m just so excited to talk to him. If you look up math anxiety, you see his name as one of the folks who is really thinking about this at so many different angles, and we get to talk to him. So enjoy our conversation with Dr. Gerardo Ramirez.
Dan Meyer (04:29):
We are so excited to have Dr. Gerardo Ramirez on the show with us. Dr. Ramirez is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Ball State University. Thanks so much for joining us.
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (04:40):
Yeah, thank you for inviting me to talk about math anxiety.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (04:43):
So with your interview, Dr. Ramirez, we are actually launching the season. We’re gonna be talking about all different aspects of math anxiety, and it feels pretty perfect that you are first guest of the season, because of the sheer breadth of research and conversations you’ve had about math anxiety. Could you start us off kind of telling us a story of how did you get interested in studying math anxiety? Or why, you know, why did you dive into this topic that, you know, I think a lot of folks might…like, if you’re on a plane, and you say, “Oh, I study math anxiety,” what kind of reaction are you gonna get?
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (05:24):
Oh, sure. Yeah. I think most people are actually very interested because they all have their own story about feeling anxious about math, or just being anxious about evaluation situations that involve math. And, yeah, they wanna share those stories. People feel quite comfortable talking about their anxiety about math, for some reason. But for me, I started off, when I was in undergrad, I was studying to take the GRE quiz. I was hoping to go into a psych program. But I wasn’t exactly sure what direction yet. As I took some of the practice tests, there’s some situations in which I was very nervous about taking the practice test. And I just noticed that I did really poorly on some of these exams. And so I became very interested in issues like choking under pressure, which means when you underperform relative to what you expected to perform. And so, as I was researching these issues, I started to come across this whole field of math anxiety. And I saw that while there are some people who choke under pressure during tests, there are other people who just have a strong general fear of mathematics.
Dan Meyer (06:29):
That’s really helpful. I can imagine you’re doing a lot of free psychology sessions, free therapy for people on airplanes when they bring to you their own stories of math. So let’s thank you for your service in that sense. I’m super-curious. So Bethany and I have both taught math. We both have seen firsthand what it looks like when a student is anxious in math class, though maybe we don’t have kind of the clinical language to describe it. And I’m curious, from a clinical sense, how do we define math anxiety?
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (06:57):
Sure. So first off, math anxiety is not something that you would find in the DSM, for instance. But we generally define that as a fear or apprehension to situations that involve math. So it doesn’t have to necessarily be educational situations. It could be someone asks you a math-related question during a party, or you have to calculate the tip at a restaurant, for instance. It doesn’t have to be about schooling situations, although that’s obviously where it seems to matter a lot for many people. So it is basically a fear or apprehension to situations that involve math. And I think distinguishing the term “fear” from “anxiety” is really important here. A lot of times people use those terms interchangeably, and the term “fear” is obviously within our definition of math anxiety. But oftentimes what differentiates anxiety from fear is that, anxiety is—think of it like a recipe. Anxiety is fear plus a little bit of unknown. OK? So if, for instance, if you hated snakes, and they threw a snake at you, you’d be in intense fear. Whereas if you hated snakes and they said, “There is a snake in the room, but I’m not gonna tell you where,” that’s gonna cause anxiety. And so the reason why we call it math anxiety is because a lot of times people experience this fear for a possible unknown future that involves math or possible unknown evaluations that people might have about your competence, because of math. And so for a lot of kids, they feel anxious about how they’re gonna do on a test or whether they’re gonna be able to pass a class or whether they’ll be able to understand what you’re saying in your lessons, for instance. And so the anxiety component really gets at fear of something that’s unknown, but related to mathematics situations.
Dan Meyer (08:47):
Math is somewhere in the ceiling right now. Perhaps I might be surprised with a math situation!
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (08:52):
Yeah. yep.
Dan Meyer (08:52):
So I have this tendency to assume that every other subject that we teach has it better and easier than math does. It’s not true. I know this is not true. But I’m kind of curious here. Is math anxiety, like, part of a general just set of anxiety around schooling itself? Like, is there a reading anxiety, a writing anxiety, and does that all just flow from the same kind of fount of anxiety around schooling or situations about learning? And what makes math special in this regard? If it is its own special anxiety, for instance?
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (09:27):
There are different…so some people obviously suffer from generalized anxiety. Right? And so they would, you know, feel anxious both for evaluative and non-evaluative situations. But in the research that we’ve done and that other people have done, there are differences between things like reading anxiety, math anxiety; I’ve also studied spatial and creativity anxiety. A lot of times what we’re trying to do in these studies is we measure all of the above, and we try to show that, look, math anxiety predicts math situations above and beyond these other things. So yeah, we definitely distinguish those things. And so what’s special about math is that, well, I think the symbolic nature is a big part of it. The abstract symbolic nature is just not as tangible to students. They can’t touch it. And so it doesn’t allow ’em to use their full cognitive faculties to play with it, as you might see, for instance, in science. Or it doesn’t allow people to relate math to their own interests the way you might see, for instance, in English. So maybe I hate reading novels, but I’m interested in zombies and you give me a book on zombies, well, ok, great, you’ve connected my personal assets to the topic. Whereas with math, either that’s harder to do or instructors don’t do such a good job of setting that connection up.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (10:46):
Also, I think, you know, I’ve heard of students being really anxious, let’s say, during a reading session, when teachers used to do—hopefully they’re still not doing it—the popcorn reading, where you just randomly call on a student to read out a sentence. Right? But you don’t really hear students or adults talking about, “Oh, no, no, no, I don’t read; I don’t mess with reading.” You know? Whereas with math, you do hear, “Oh, I’m not a math person. Oh no, no, no, don’t ask me any math questions.” And that is such a distinction.
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (11:18):
Yeah. And I think a lot of that’s because it’s just so common. As an adult, to be nervous about reading is kind of an uncommon thing. So people feel a stigma around admitting that. But math is something that everyone feels like they’re inadequate in. And so there’s a lot of comfort in telling you how they’re just one of the many people who don’t like math. And that, you know, can have a lot of different consequences and outcomes. I think on the one hand, I think for a lot of kids it becomes a normalized message that if you fear math, that’s OK, join the club. Right? But we have to be careful about that, ’cause a lot of math anxiety researchers will oftentimes say, part of what leads to math anxiety is adults normalizing that it’s OK to be scared of math. So I think a lot of times adults, teachers, for instance, math teachers, they’ll tell kids, “You know, if you’re scared, that’s OK.” And so a lot of the math anxiety community says, “No, no, no, you’re not supposed to do that.” But my recent view is different. I view that as a form of validation. Because math is hard. And so telling kids, “Hey, look, it’s actually easy if you just try,” I don’t think that’s true. It’s actually just hard. And I think even if it was easy, to the kid, it feels hard! And I think something that’s not really well-studied right now in our field is the value of validating people’s math negative math experiences. We don’t want to validate that, ’cause we think that we’re gonna reinforce that. But actually, I think the opposite. I think when you validate people’s negative math experiences, it helps ’em to feel that they can handle it. They can start to take control over their own emotions.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (12:52):
I love that. And I, I actually, I think that’s so powerful, what you’re talking about, that validation. I taught kindergarten, and I vividly remember being in a parent-teacher conference and that parent saying, “Oh, I wasn’t a math person either,” right? Or, you know, their language and their experience with their own math schooling, their anxiety about math was actually impacting their students’ experience of math. Or the conversation that, when I would go to talk about a math assessment, let’s say, you could see the parent actually tensing up. And there was this moment of validation, that I felt like we needed to make space for that in the conversation with the parents, right?
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (13:38):
Yeah.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (13:38):
Like, this is a real thing. And we are working on teaching students that math is something that gets to—your experience with math gets to look all sorts of different ways. And it’s OK if we, you know, make a mistake, or if we kind of only get this part, but we’ve really got that part. Or let’s talk about it; let’s write about it. So I really feel like that that validation is something that’s so missing. And instead of the validation, like you said, you see folks being like, “Oh yeah, me neither. I’m not a math person either.” Right?
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (14:10):
Yeah. I think…part of the reason why people are comfortable sharing this because they’re looking for validation also. When they say, “Oh, I’m not a math person,” you know, I think they’re hoping that, you’ll say like, “Yeah, me neither,” or “Of course not, ’cause math is terrible.” Right? They’re looking for validation, not to reinforce their perspective, but to feel that it’s OK not to be a math person. And I think that’s one of the techniques that I’m trying to work on in my research right now, is to provide evidence that actually people will work harder when you validate their math experience. You don’t have to tell them a positive story per se. If your current story is “Math is hard and I’m very, very anxious; I’m scared,” then we can just validate that and help you work through that. And it actually will strengthen our relationships. Because if you’re a student and you’re struggling with math and I tell you, “Yeah, it’s hard; it’s OK to struggle with math,” that makes you feel seen. And that’s gonna lead you to want to ask me more for help, because I’m someone who understands you. And that’s a great, you know, remediation opportunity.
Dan Meyer (15:14):
A common thread that I think I’m seeing here in several answers is that math sometimes asks students to disassociate part of themselves. Where success in math oftentimes means working from an a level of abstraction with symbols, like you said, that can feel alien. Like, who am I here? And in the same way, I love that you’re proposing we validate and reassociate people with a very deeply felt part of themselves that is anxious about mathematics.
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (15:44):
Yeah. I mean, I think that’s what validation’s supposed to do, right? So a lot of us, when we feel these strong emotions, we wonder, “Is this even a real thing? Are other people feeling this? Is there something wrong with me?” So we feel the emotions, but we can’t actually deal with them, because we wonder if they’re legitimate. And so when someone says, like, “Yeah, this is hard,” it crystallizes that emotion. And once something is made real, you can actually choose how you want to deal with it. Some kids are gonna deal with it by staying anxious. But some people are gonna choose to deal with it by saying, “Well, there’s nothing I can do about it now; I have to take this math test, so I’m just gonna think positive.” And that’s great. If the kid can end up saying that to themselves, that’s much more effective than me telling the kid, “Hey, you just gotta think positive. You’re gonna start the test anyway.” And so we want the kid to make meaning of their experience, and the way we do that is by crystallizing their emotions through validation.
Dan Meyer (16:36):
Yeah. I love that. And so what you’re proposing there, I think, sounds like, a solution, like a post-talk solution after students are feeling anxiety.
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (16:43):
Yes.
Dan Meyer (16:43):
To validate and empathize.
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (16:45):
Yes.
Dan Meyer (16:45):
And over the course of our season, we hope to explore a lot about solutions to math anxiety that are preventative, that reduce the odds of anxiety arising, through instruction and curriculum, before it arises. And I’m just wondering if you’ve seen anything that would hint at either specific or general words of wisdom you wanna share with the educators, about not just addressing it after the fact, but preventing math anxiety before it arises?
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (17:14):
To be honest, at this point, I haven’t seen enough evidence for me to recommend anything concretely as an intervention for math anxiety, or an intervention to prevent its development. All I can really do here is rely a lot on the more broad cognitive-behavioral research on anxiety, which says that one of the ways we prevent people from developing anxiety is by helping them to make more positive appraisals of challenge situations. So a lot of times, when kids are challenged, they don’t know how to interpret that. “What does it mean that I’m struggling with this thing?” And so that’s where I think a lot of teachers can help students’ interpretations of that. ‘Cause if you leave kids to their own devices, they’re gonna think, “I’m struggling because I’m stupid. I’m struggling because I’m not good enough. I’m struggling because my dad is right; I’m gonna be a failure.” You know? They’re going to impose an interpretation to a challenge situation regardless. And so, as teachers, one thing we can do is we can help shape that interpretation and say, “What does it mean to struggle with math? People will say it means you’re stupid. That’s one interpretation. What’s another one? It means that your brain is working really hard to think through something. That’s another interpretation. What’s better? What do you think is more helpful?” And then, helping students to see how interpretations matter to how you ultimately feel about something. And that’s a very metacognitive way of thinking about things. So yeah, I would say that one way to prevent it is to help students to take more positive interpretations of their experience. But another way, and I think a more successful way, I think, is to give students early experiences where they feel efficacious dealing with math. One of the ways you do that, for instance, is by obviously making sure that the students understand the material—but that’s obvious; people are trying to do that. One of my favorite recommendations is to keep reassigning assignments, the same exact assignment, for, say, three weeks, back-to-back. So if in week one you do the homework assignment, you do OK, you don’t do so great, when week two you do it, you give the exact same assignment, and now the student can see like, “Wow, OK, this was much easier.” And then, week three, you give the exact same assignment; now the kid’s feeling really confident. And the reason why that’s great is because it helps kids to see that they’re growing in confidence. A lot of times kids don’t get to see that because we’re constantly throwing new assessments at them. And so they’re never seeing that growth. All they’re seeing is a new challenge, a new challenge, a new challenge. So I think we need to set up situations where they can feel that they’re growing, when we keep the assessment static. That can be a formative assessment, for instance—doesn’t have to be a summative assessment.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (19:55):
That feels so powerful and it feels like it really connects to that validation piece, right? We are actually helping to create a culture in our math classroom where we might struggle with something, but we keep revisiting it. And it’s not so much to reach mastery, but as Dr. Megan Franke — we talked to her about this partial understanding and about pulling on those threads of things that you do understand, so that you can build your confidence…build, not just confidence, but build your…I guess, kind of get your footing, right? You’re saying, “Well, I do understand this. I see how this works.” And if I’m revisiting an assignment, I feel like that would give me permission to like, “Hey, I don’t have to have this figured out on the first pass. You know?
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (20:44):
Yes, yes. Yeah. I mean, I’m gonna give you a silly analogy, but I think it works. You know, a lot of times people will have nightmares, right? And they’ll keep having the same nightmare over and over again, right? And so one reason that we suspect this happens is because they haven’t worked through whatever that nightmare’s supposed to be about. So if, say, I’m scared of driving, I may be having the same dream about driving and crashing over and over. And we keep having these nightmares. And I think math anxiety is kind of like a waking nightmare, where you keep rehashing something because you haven’t had the chance to finally address that dragon. You know? And so if someone was having a lot of fear over driving, then one behavioral approach would be, you know, to work with a therapist to actually get behind the wheel and maybe drive around the same track over and over until you feel comfortable at that, and then the nightmares stop. Well, the same thing is true, I think, about math, math and math anxiety, is that you wanna give people these opportunities to feel confident by going back to that original experience that caused them to feel anxious, and saying, “This one assignment that we did in week three that really freaked you out, let’s try it again now in week five. How was that?” “Yeah, it wasn’t so bad. It was still kind of annoying.” “OK, we’ll we’ll come back to it.” “Now it’s week seven. Now let’s go back to that assignment. How is it now?” “That’s actually…it wasn’t that terrible.” And that gives people the opportunity to reflect on how they’ve grown past that nightmare.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (22:05):
I have to say, Dan talked about you being like a therapist. I’m like, wait, “How did you know, Dr. Ramirez? I did have this recurring dream! I did! And I had to face it. No, but I had such intense math anxiety in high school and it was debilitating. And the biggest thing for me, I thought I was the only one. I thought there was something wrong with me. I thought, “Why can’t I figure this out?” There wasn’t a conversation about “Here are some tools,” or “Here are some, some, some…”. Like, “This is OK, for you to feel scared about this or overwhelmed!”
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (22:41):
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (22:42):
You know, I think often when we talk about how widespread math anxiety is, I think a lot of folks automatically jump to high schoolers or college students avoiding math courses. But we see this in really young kids.
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (22:56):
Yeah. So people are…people are just constantly making meaning of themselves, regardless of the age range. And that’s true even with young kids; they are trying to figure out who they are. Right? And so one of the things you see oftentimes with young kids is you ask ’em, “What are you good at?” And they say, “Everything!” And that’s their attempt to, you know, make meaning of themselves. But sometimes they’re not good at everything. Sometimes they actually struggle in math. And I think even early on, they have to make meaning of that. They say, “Well, I’m good at everything except math.” And how do you make sense of that? Well, why not math? “Oh, because math is terrible. It’s not for everybody. You know, it’s not something that I like.” And so, yeah, in a lot of the studies that we did early on, we basically went into these first-grade classrooms with the purpose of trying to assess whether we can actually show variability in kids’ math anxiety, even early on. In other other words, do kids even report feeling anxious about math situations? Or do they tell us that they’re great at everything? And what we found was that in fact, a good chunk of kids are, again, perfectly willing to tell you that “No, certain situations involving math make me very anxious.” Counting or addition, or doing a problem on the board. And the way we do that is by—I think there are probably more sophisticated ways that can be done, but this is the best we have at this point—is we go in there and we ask them, we show them a bunch of smiley faces and anxious faces. And we say, “I want you to tell me how you feel about these different situations that involve math.” And so we say, “If you feel kind of nervous, I want you to point to this face. If you feel very nervous, point to this face.” And we basically will read to them situations. We’ll say, “How would you feel if your teacher asked you to open up your new math textbook and you saw all the numbers inside of it?” And they’ll point to the really nervous face. So right now, those are some of the more reliable assessments for math anxiety among young kids. And that work showed us that even young kids are self-reporting math anxiety.
Dan Meyer (24:51):
Obviously this is worth our study, because we would hope people would not feel anxious in general, and especially if we have a mandated…kids are mandated to be in math classes for their entire childhood. So I see the need for this study, these studies. I’m curious: What are the consequences, though? Like what, what correlates with math anxiety? What are other reasons why we should care about math anxiety and work to remediate it?
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (25:16):
Oh, sure. So it correlates with their actual math performance. It can correlate when they choose to do homework. Right? So a lot of times, the parents report having to fight with their kids over math homework a lot. And you also oftentimes see a lot of frustration over mathematics specifically. And so it can, you know, not only affect their academic ongoing outcomes, like math tests and math assignments, but it can also affect their relationship with their parents. So if every time you come home, your dad’s screaming at you because you haven’t done your math homework, and when he asks you to solve the problem in front of them, you don’t remember, ’cause you were checked out, ’cause you’re so stressed out, that’s gonna cause a really negative experience. You know, a lot of times people grow up and they still remember their dad screaming at them over the math homework. You know, it’ll affect your relationship with your teacher. So if you’re making me feel incompetent, if you’re stressing me out, you’re not the kind of person I wanna come to for help. So it can predict relational outcomes as well as academic outcomes. And down the line, of course, when it affects students’ opportunities to get into things like AP classes, it affects students standardized test performance and their choice of colleges, as well as scholarship opportunities.
Dan Meyer (26:29):
Once you show that it correlates to performance, then that opens up a whole range of other correlations that are pretty important, it sounds like. Whether that’s career options or, you know, post-secondary education and the like.
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (26:40):
Yeah. And a lot of times, when people are choosing a career at college, a lot of times students will make a decision specifically based on what career has less math requirements or less math courses. So I think this finding needs to be verified further. But, there’s some studies showing that, for instance, elementary ed teachers, one factor that feeds into the decision to go into elementary ed is the math requirements are very low in elementary ed. So that can…obviously it’s not what we wanna hear, because these are our first formal math teachers, right? For our kids.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (27:16):
It feels so powerful, the impact that math anxiety can have, not only while you’re in, let’s say, elementary school, high middle school, high school, but then the impacts beyond that in terms of your career. And I shared this last season, when we talked about our personal math story, but I know when I was navigating the deepest part of my math anxiety, I really felt like, maybe this is a reason I can’t be an elementary school teacher. Because I was so worried that I wouldn’t be able…not that I wouldn’t understand the math for fourth grade, fifth grade, but that there was something about my ability to teach it or understand it or develop a love and passion for it that I wouldn’t be able to do. And I really had to reclaim it in my own way. But, you know, something that I think is so powerful about your research is just the applicability — not only to the field of mathematics, but folks’ everyday lives. And the way that you have talked in the past about math being a gatekeeper…I have a family member who, brilliant American Sign Language interpreter. I mean, amazing. Like a dance with her fingers. I could just watch it all day. And she actually didn’t complete the program because she couldn’t complete the math requirements. And I remember talking to her about like, “Well, have you gone to the free tutoring? Have you gone to, you know, this or that?” But it was a paralyzing fear, you know? So Dr. Ramirez, what do you wish educators understood about math anxiety? Or the research about math anxiety? Or maybe even the general public at large, what do you wish folks understood about math anxiety?
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (28:58):
Oh, I think that a lot of students, they struggle with math. And I think we wanna normalize that struggle as much as possible. We want to create a culture where it’s OK to do math slow; it’s ok to take your time. And I know that’s not possible with a lot of these requirements that a lot of math teachers have to do. But I think if we want to prevent math anxiety, we have to create opportunities to tell better stories. So that’s ultimately what I tell people is, why do people develop math anxiety? Because they had experiences that challenged their competency and they told a negative story. And so making space to reflect in math classrooms about what does it mean to go slow in math, or what does it mean to make mistakes, and then helping kids to tell better stories, I think it’s really the best thing we can do as math educators. ‘Cause you know, your job is not to be a therapist ultimately. You know, there’s only so much math teachers can do. But I think one of the most powerful things we can create is setting up students’ experiences where they feel confident, and they can tell better stories, so they can have better dreams about math.
Dan Meyer (30:06):
Really appreciate this introduction to math anxiety. It’s been a fantastic kickoff to our season. Dr. Ramirez, thank you so much for joining us.
Dr. Gerardo Ramirez (30:14):
Sure. Thank you.
Dan Meyer (30:16):
Thank you folks so much for listening to that conversation with Dr. Gerardo Ramirez, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Ball State University.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (30:25):
Dan, OK, if not for your frantic signaling, I would’ve probably asked another 20 questions. I need to know what you thought .
Dan Meyer (30:34):
I found it interesting at all points. And especially I think I started to understand a little bit better where the anxiety comes from for some students. I got a little bit here, which is that I think math, more than other disciplines, involves alienation. Check that word. You like that? Alienation? I’m into it. I’m feeling it. It’s like…to get good at math, to be successful in math, you gotta, as a kid, lose your attachment to the world you understand. And I mean, “got to” as in like, “you are asked to” — many times, unfortunately, by curriculum and instruction. Which is to say, you’re turning things you can hold onto into numerals. Right? You’re turning the world and its patterns that you can see and touch into Xs and Ys. And I just don’t know that other disciplines deal with that as much. Maybe I’m wrong and just guilty of, you know, “grass is always greener” syndrome here. But I think that’s an experience that kids have in math. And I thought that Dr. Ramirez got at that when he’s talking about the need to validate a student’s experience of anxiety. Like, in treating anxiety, sometimes we alienate people further by just like saying, “Oh, no, no, no, it’s just like, you need to, you know, drill yourself more, practice more,” and kind of invalidate that. So this feeling of alienation, I think permeates a lot of math instruction. I’m looking forward to learning more about that with our future episodes
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (32:00):
Alienation. That’s interesting. I definitely felt, I definitely felt isolated and alone many times in my math journey, when I was having my…you know, in high school, when I was feeling like, “Clearly everyone can look at tan, sign, cosign, and that means something to them.” Right? I think it’s really interesting, because I’m thinking about the other disciplines; I’m running through them, and I’m like, even in science, which can seem abstract, so oftentimes there’s these experiments that accompany these concepts, where you’re like, “Look at this concept made real in front of you.” Right? . And so yeah, that’s really interesting.
Dan Meyer (32:39):
You’re always one step away from blowing something up! Or, you know, dissecting something that’s tangible to you.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (32:46):
Yeah. That’s really interesting. I did really love how he brought up the abstract. And how, I think, even validating it…he talked so much about validation. Which to me was like, YES. If somebody just said, “Hey, it’s not only possible to have math anxiety, but it also doesn’t mean that you don’t belong here.” If somebody had said that, it would’ve literally changed the trajectory, you know? And I wonder what those conversations could look like in our classrooms, where teachers celebrate that. Like, WHOA, this is a new way to think of this. This is a new way. Asking how many, or what do you notice for this image, through a mathematical lens, or looking…we talked to Alison Hintz and Antony Smith, like mathematizing books, like looking through these lenses — it’s an invitation to step into this other world, right? But there’s not only one way to do it. And I think oftentimes it’s like that anxiety of “Am I gonna say the right thing?” or “Am I gonna notice the right thing?” Right? How do we create that space more, where there’s so many possibilities and we want kiddos to notice what they notice, right?
Dan Meyer (33:54):
You gotta become a certain kind of person to be successful in math class. I feel like is part of the implied deal. Where you’ve gotta—like how you said—say a certain thing or think about a certain thing a certain kind of way. You’re trying to become someone who is not necessarily you. Which I think is fundamentally an experience of alienation, separating you from important parts of yourself.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (34:19):
I will never, ever dive into mathematics on the scale and level that you have with your PhD. You understand math in a way that my brain just…I won’t get there, right? And yet I’m allowed to call myself a mathematician, with all of my deep dives in elementary math and my love of early numeracy and thinking about how we start thinking about counting and numbers. Right? It’s like, if we make more space for what mathematicians can look like, and what is your personal relationship with math…I mean, that to me feels really exciting. ‘Cause I think we both have something to offer each other.
Dan Meyer (35:03):
I think I have never found early math more interesting than when I talk to early math educators. And learn just like all the different ways that students come to understand a concept that I had thought was simple. Like addition of whole numbers. Whoa! There’s a lot of ways kids do that work, and their brains think those thoughts. And, yeah. That’s a good word there you’re offering us and our listeners.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (35:27):
Yeah. Yeah. I’m really excited about this season. I think there’s — again, there’s no way we’re gonna cover all facets of math anxiety. But I think having the chance to explore it over the course of a season is going to be really fascinating. And really, I hope, destigmatize it and open up the conversation for our listeners. And, you know, if you listeners…we wanna know what you thought of this episode. Do you have any particular questions? Do you have questions related to math anxiety? Questions related to this episode? We are in development for this season, so we’re gonna do our best to get those questions answered. You can keep in touch with us in our Facebook discussion group, Math Teacher Lounge Community, and on Twitter at MTLshow.
Dan Meyer (36:14):
Next time, we’re gonna go deeper into the causes and consequences of math anxiety.
Dr. Erin Maloney (36:20):
It’s not just the case that people who are bad at math are anxious about it. It’s actually that the anxiety itself can cause you to do worse in math. And that for me is really exciting, ’cause it means that if we can change your mindset, then we can really set you on a path with several more options available to you.
Dan Meyer (36:41):
Til next time folks,
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (36:41):
Bye.
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Dr. Gerardo Ramirez obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he studied the role of teachers and parents in shaping the math attitudes of their students, as well as reappraisal techniques to help students cope with anxiety during testing situations.
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Dr. Erin Maloney (00:00):
It’s the anxiety itself in many ways that can cause people to underperform.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (00:06):
Welcome back to Math Teacher Lounge. I’m Bethany Lockhart Johnson.
Dan Meyer (00:10):
And I’m Dan Meyer.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (00:11):
This is episode two of our new season, all about math anxiety. Who has it? What is it? What do we do about it?
Dan Meyer (00:20):
I’m learning so much, learning a ton.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (00:22):
I loved our first conversation with Dr. Gerardo Ramirez, episode one, our first episode of the season. Really, our goal with that conversation was just to—we need to talk about the basics of it, for reals. Like, what is math anxiety?
Dan Meyer (00:36):
What is it? How do you measure it? How’s it defined? Super-helpful stuff.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (00:40):
There’s not only one way that it’s measured. But it’s like, in active research right now, how are folks making sense of it? And I think Dr. Ramirez did such a fantastic job of sharing that with our listeners. And I learned a lot. You learned a lot, Dan?
Dan Meyer (00:56):
I did. And I’m also super-excited to take that knowledge that we have developed together and go and build on top of it and keep on climbing up up the mountain here, and learn more about math anxiety. Which is why we’re super-excited to have a guest on, Dr. Maloney, who is going to help us learn more—especially about what happens to the brain when it’s experiencing math anxiety. There’s some really complex stuff that happens there, including the role of parents and educators in creating and resolving math anxiety. And I think we’ll also learn that the whole situation is a bit of a hot mess. And we’ll try to make it a little bit less messy together.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (01:34):
Little bit less messy. Dan, if we do nothing else, can we make it a little less messy?
Dan Meyer (01:41):
I sometimes prefer more mess, but in this case I prefer less. So.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (01:45):
I have a two-year-old, so everything is a mess.
Dan Meyer (01:47):
Your life is mess. Yes. <laugh> Right. Well, I’m excited for you folks to hear this. It was a delightful conversation, so yeah, tune in. We are joined by Dr. Erin Maloney.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (01:56):
Let’s go. We are joined by Dr. Erin Maloney, associate professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, where she directs the Cognition and Emotion Laboratory, as well as serving as the Canada Research Chair in Academic Achievement and Well-being. Welcome to the show, Dr. Maloney. We’re so excited to have you in the Lounge.
Dr. Erin Maloney (02:20):
Yeah, thank you so much for having me. This is fantastic.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (02:24):
So our last season was all about math and joy. And even when I read your title, I felt more joyful. Like, somebody is thinking about academic achievement, but with well-being in mind. I love it.
Dr. Erin Maloney (02:39):
Aw, thank you.
Dan Meyer (02:40):
Cognition and emotion!
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (02:42):
E-mo-tion!
Dr. Erin Maloney (02:43):
I don’t think they can be separate. I think that you have to think about them together, ’cause they’re so intricately connected.
Dan Meyer (02:49):
Love that. People try, but we love that. Yeah. That’s our vibe here, too.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (02:52):
People try. That was a big problem with my math anxiety. They just wanted…there was no room for my emotion. They’re like, stop weeping at your desk—
Dan Meyer (03:00):
It’s rearranging neurons….
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (03:01):
—you’re distracting the other children. So would you mind telling us the story of how you even got interested in this topic? You know, when you tell people that you study math anxiety—or, actually, I don’t know how you describe it to them; I’m hopeful you bring in that well-being part—but how did you get here? What do you, what do you, what do you…yeah, tell us! We love it!
Dr. Erin Maloney (03:23):
<laugh> I feel like what you’re actually asking is, “How did you make life choices that got you to here?” <Laugh>
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (03:29):
Justify your life choices! Ready? Go!
Dr. Erin Maloney (03:32):
<laugh> Whoo. OK. So, all right. So we often, in psychology, we joke that instead of doing research, we do “me-search.” And that’s, that’s admittedly true in my case. I was a student who absolutely loved math up until about eighth grade, and then something changed, and all of a sudden I was terrified of math and I had absolutely no sense of self-efficacy in it. Despite trying really hard, I was extremely anxious about it. And so I initially, I set out…my parents were completely convinced that I was absolutely capable of doing mathematics and that I was getting in my own way. And when I went to university, I decided to prove them wrong. So I set out to prove that some people just can’t do math, and that’s the end of it. And, you know, 20 plus years later, my parents were right. And it turns out that many people—well, I would argue virtually everyone—can do math. And that if you are really anxious about it, it can get in the way. And interestingly, you know, in, in the years that we’ve been doing this research, there’s really good strategies that can be used—that hopefully we get a chance to chat about—that can really help reduce the amount of anxiety that students are experiencing. But I really did set out, like the bold teenager that I was, to prove my parents wrong. And that backfired <laugh>. So I know it’s kind of a strange answer, but it’s the truth. So I was really interested in understanding why it was some people just could not do math.
Dan Meyer (05:10):
That makes two for two so far, on guests for this season who did a version of me-search. And I feel like this is pretty common for a lot of researchers. Like, I wanna figure out…my experience as a teacher, the part where you, I think, diverge from a lot of people I knew in grad school, myself included, is that you actually let counter evidence change your perspective on things. Whereas I feel like a lot of us go in: “I know this is true and I’m gonna gather data!” and lo and behold, I’m true! But only now, with the research TM, you know, trademarked research, attached to it. So that’s, really exciting. Thanks for sharing that.
Dr. Erin Maloney (05:43):
No, you’re welcome.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (05:44):
But don’t people say that the more personal you get, the more universal it is? Right? So if you go and get your doctorate about something that you think is just your experience or in your brain, then people are gonna be gonna be like, “Wait a second; you think that too?” “Wait, that math anxiety isn’t just you?” I don’t know, it sounds like a pretty great path to me. When you tell folks that you study math anxiety or when you’re speaking to folks about your research, do you find that there is a lot of folks who relate to what you’re studying? Or how does that conversation typically go?
Dr. Erin Maloney (06:20):
Yeah, so it is I think an extremely relatable topic. Not in the sense that everyone experiences anxiety about math, but everyone seems to know somebody who’s really anxious about math. Or everyone’s at least aware of the stereotype that like some people are math people and some people aren’t, and that’s just the way it is. So it feels like everyone has feelings about math and everyone seems very happy to share those feelings. So one thing I’ve always found really interesting, and actually, so I, I know you mentioned that you had Gerardo on recently. Gerardo and I have had really interesting conversations about how people are really quick to tell you that they hate math and they can’t do math, and they’re anxious about math. And I’ve yet to have anyone ever tell me they hate reading, they can’t read, they’re really anxious about reading as an adult. So for some reason math seems really different. And in that sense people always seem to be pretty excited to talk about their feelings towards math.
Dan Meyer (07:23):
Yeah, definitely. Been on an airplane or two myself and had those conversations. You know, people asking to be reseated because they found out that I do math for a living or whatever. Or just unburdening themselves, for sure. I’m super-curious: I think that the fact that you are doing the me-search is reason enough to want to dedicate your life to this study. But I am curious: If you were gonna justify to someone else, why is math anxiety important to study? What are its consequences, even outside of math education? What would you say to that?
Dr. Erin Maloney (07:57):
So I think it’s probably not hard to convince people that success in math is important, right? So we know that children who start elementary school behind in mathematics tend to stay behind in mathematics, unless they have any kind of very targeted intervention. We know that children who do worse in mathematics throughout K to 12 education in general get lower-paying jobs when they’re older. We also know that when they do worse than mathematics relative to their peers, there’s fewer jobs that are open to them, relative to if they excelled in math. Right? And so I think in many ways there are really clear consequences for students who are not comfortable with math and who avoid it. But I think one of the really, really interesting things about math anxiety, and maybe part of why I’ve fallen in love with it as a research topic is that it’s the anxiety itself in many ways that can cause people to underperform. So it’s not just the case that people who are bad at math are anxious about it. It’s actually that the anxiety itself can cause you to do worse in math. And that for me is really exciting, ’cause it means that if we can change your mindset, then we can really set you on a path with several more options available to you career-wise. And I think that is really empowering.
Dan Meyer (09:18):
Hmm. Yeah, definitely. And I’d love for you to explore — your laboratory is the cognition and emotion laboratory, which I love, how you’re creating those linkages between how you feel about a thing and what your opportunities or your aptitude for learning it. I’m really curious, can you say more about the, the relationship there? How does feeling anxiety impair your ability to do mathematics?
Dr. Erin Maloney (09:41):
Yeah, so feeling anxiety, typically what you tend to experience is these negative thoughts and ruminations. So you can imagine, you’re somebody who doesn’t really love math, you’re pretty anxious about it; you know, Bethany, maybe you’ve had this kind of experience before. I’m gonna call you out on it. I’ve had it many times, where you sit down to do a math test and all of a sudden you’re not focusing on the actual math test in front of you. You’re focusing on things like the consequences of not doing well on this. Right? Or “my parents are gonna be really disappointed if I don’t pass this test,” or “my teacher is gonna think negatively negative of me,” or sometimes we see things like, “I’m a girl, girls don’t do math.” These types of stereotypes. And what happens is that those thoughts actually tie up really important cognitive resources, like, really important memory resources, that you need to do the math test. And so if you are trying to essentially do two things at once, right? You’re trying to deal with all these negative thoughts that are distracting you and you’re trying to do the math test, then you’re not going to do as well as someone who’s sitting down and doesn’t have all of these distracting thoughts to deal with. And we actually know that from research that we have in our lab right now, where we just ask people like, “Hey, when you did this math test, what kind of stuff are you thinking about?” what we find is that the people who are really anxious about math report a whole bunch of thoughts that are unrelated really to the math test, per se. It’s more about the consequences of doing poorly. And as a result of those thoughts, they actually end up doing worse.
Dan Meyer (11:14):
This has been really helpful to figure out, how the emotional state of doing math affects the ability to do math. And it’s really interesting how you’re saying that the direction of the causality can go from the emotions to the cognition. And I’m just curious then, what is the source of the bad emotions about math? Where does that come from? Is it nature? Is it nurture? Some combination? How do you see it?
Dr. Erin Maloney (11:39):
Yeah, so one, that’s a fantastic question. And there’s been a whole bunch of people all around the world that have been spending a lot of time really trying to pinpoint that down. And I think the answer is that it’s, you know, it’s complex. So most of what it’s looking like right now is that it is a combination of both. So essentially what we find is that kids who start elementary school who are a little bit behind in math—and for the question of why they’re behind, that’s also complex; it could be genetics, it could be just environmental input, before the child ever entered formal schooling kind of thing—but in essence, what we find is that kids that start school behind in mathematics, those are the children who are most likely to develop anxiety about math by the time they’re finished first grade. OK? But we also know that once they’ve developed the anxiety about math, then that’s when they get these thoughts and ruminations that kind of tie up those memory resources, that then is gonna make it harder for them to succeed in math tests. So you get into this sort of vicious cycle, right? Where maybe you start behind a little bit and then you develop the anxiety, the anxiety causes you to underperform relative to what you should be able to, so now you’re even further behind, you get more anxious because you’re not doing as well as you’d like to…but again, kind of coming back to the “Why are the children starting behind in the first place?” Some of that seems to be the role that parents are playing in the household. So some kids come from a household where parents are playing a lot more math games with them, talking about mathematical concepts on a regular basis. Maybe they have older siblings who are, you know, practicing arithmetic and, and mathematical processing in front of them. And so those kids are exposed to more math before they ever even start formal schooling. Those kids seem to do better. And then we also know that the parents’ attitudes matter a lot too. So what we find is that when parents are high in math anxiety themselves, especially when they help their children a lot with their math homework in really early ages, we find that those kids end up being more anxious about math by the end of the school year, and they also end up doing worse in mathematics. So it really does seem to be, you know, kind of a complex set of factors that have something to do with both maybe genetic predisposition to success in math and genetic predisposition to anxiety, but then also the social attitudes and stereotypes about math to which you’re exposed at home that really seem to be coming together to create this anxiety in young children.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (14:24):
I feel like everything you’re saying is <laugh>…it makes so much sense and yet it’s so often not talked about, right? Because it’s just more like, it gets boiled down to, “Oh, they’re just not a math person,” instead of all these other factors that are at play. And I completely remember the anxiety I felt, whether it was a test or not, walking into my math classroom when I was in ninth grade. And there’s no way I was set up and ready to learn. Right? <Laugh>. And something with—we mentioned Dr. Ramirez, he was talking about validating that anxiety. If teachers validate that like, “Oh, you know what, sometimes you might feel stumped, or this might feel overwhelming.” Even the power in creating space for that in the classroom, right? And acknowledging that it doesn’t—math doesn’t have to “come easy” to you in order for you to have access or make sense, is such a powerful concept. And I love the way that you are looking at all these different factors and saying, “Hey, it’s both simple and also a lot more complicated than we’re we’re making it.” Right?
Dr. Erin Maloney (15:36):
No, and I agree with that sentiment so much. Like, I think, though—one thing I will sort of caution is that I think when teachers are validating the anxiety, or when parents are validating the anxiety, I think there’s a very fine line that needs to be walked where we need to be able to say, you know, “It’s OK to struggle with something. That’s, that is completely OK.” And as we’re, you know, as we’re working towards something that’s really valuable, right? We can, we can work hard at something and by working hard at it, we’re going to get better. And I think that type of validating is really, really important and valuable. I think what we wanna be careful of is not to say things like, “Oh, it’s OK. I also never loved math.” And, you know, “Oh, I was never a math person either.” And so even though we might be bringing comfort to the the child, I think that that’s sending the wrong message. And so sometimes it’s really well intentioned and really not great—
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (16:37):
A hundred percent.
Dr. Erin Maloney (16:38):
—in terms of the messaging. So that’s the only…so just for people listening, the only sort of caution that I would give there is that I think there’s nuances to the validating of the feelings that are important.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (16:50):
I am so glad you said that because as a kindergarten teacher, I vividly remember—and this is as early as, you know, the kids are five years old, right?—and I remember in a parent-teacher conference, a parent saying, “Oh, I wasn’t a math person either,” or, “Oh, no, ugh.” And they were so quick, like you said, they wouldn’t say that about reading, but they were so quick to talk about their lack of natural math aptitude, right? And, and it was really interesting because you know that even if they’re not saying that specific thing at home, those attitudes are absolutely carrying over at home. And they’re absolutely carrying over to, to how they interact with their kiddo around math and around what’s happening in the conversations about math. And I felt like a lot of times my work as a teacher was also to help support parents through their own math anxiety, and help give them some new language for how they can talk about math. And that math is more than just getting to an answer quickly. Like, let’s talk about, let’s go on math walks, let’s go on number walks, what numbers are around the home? Or oh, is that bigger than this? Do you have more of this? And even those little things, I, my hope was that it was starting to shift the conversation around what math was possible in the home, particularly when you saw that it was the parents who had palpable math anxiety. Right? And how much you know that that’s gonna impact what’s happening when you sit down to do homework together.
Dr. Erin Maloney (18:22):
Yeah. And I love that you have worked to encourage parents to do that. So we do similarly. Like even from a research perspective, where I will often give talks to parents and teachers and we talk about the idea of trying to mathematize everything, right? So just the idea that math is absolutely everywhere, and you know, whether it’s a matter of playing games in the car with your kids where you’re thinking of a number and it’s “My number is higher than 42, but lower than 80, and what number do you think I might be thinking of?” And, and gradually trying to get the child to that number. Or, you know, asking questions like, “What’s your favorite even number and why?” And just little things like that that, that I think can make math fun for kids, that help—I don’t even know how to explain it, but just that idea of bringing joy into it, so it’s not always this heavy subject that kids have to come to. So we definitely try to talk to parents about the idea of, like I said, mathematizing everything. And usually it’s well-received, ’cause often parents find it empowering, right? They’re like, “Oh, well, I could do that! But like, that’s not math!” And you’re like, “No, but it is.”
Dan Meyer (19:33):
Yep.
Dr. Erin Maloney (19:34):
Like, it is! And sometimes parents will say like, “Well, I don’t know how to do fractions.” And you’re like, “OK, but how do you bake?” “Well, I don’t know! I just, like, I know how to do those fractions!” And you’re like, “OK, but that’s the starting point. Let’s work with that.” Like, let’s, you know. And I think a lot of times, it’s reminding the parents that they’re actually far more capable than what they think they are, despite the fact that maybe they struggled with math when they were younger.
Dan Meyer (19:58):
Yeah. This is so interesting. And I feel like part of the challenge around conversations about anxiety and math and how to, how to resolve it and where it comes from, is that it, like, it presupposes a single definition of math. And so, you know, we’re talking about like how to be more mindful about math. But you know, like if kids were walking every day through a treacherous street, you know, the solution might not be become more mindful about that street. It’s just like, we gotta fix the treacherous nature of the street, really. You know, I love that we’re talking also about redefining what math is, making it more playful. That feels like a super-important component here. I’d love to know more about what you know about the role of gender in all of this. Are there differences in the way boys and girls experience math anxiety and how it relates to achievement in math?
Dr. Erin Maloney (20:48):
Yeah, so, there’s really, really interesting research on gender in math anxiety. So in general, we find that girls tend to experience more anxiety about math than boys do. So one hypothesis is that it has to do with just social stereotypes that, you know, girls are, are good at reading; boys are good at math, kind of thing. So there’s some evidence to suggest that that might be playing a role. There’s other evidence to suggest as well that maybe boys actually do experience as much anxiety, they just don’t really own up to it.
Dan Meyer (21:20):
Ooh, yikes.
Dr. Erin Maloney (21:21):
So thoughts are, you know, there’s a bit of an apprehension for males to admit experiencing the anxiety. But I think one of the things that is extremely interesting about it—at least to me—is that we don’t tend to see gender differences in young children. So in early elementary school, even though we’ll see that kids as young as six years old will experience anxiety about math, and that that anxiety is related to how well they do in math and how much they enjoy math, it doesn’t seem to vary as a function of gender at that young age. It doesn’t seem to be related to gender until kids are at about sixth, seventh grade that we really start to see this gender difference coming online. And so that, to me, suggests that it’s probably something more social than biological at play. It probably has something more to do with these stereotypes and stuff. But another really interesting—or at least, I’m biased, but to me—another really interesting line of research that comes into play—and some of this is stuff out of my own lab—so we know that boys in general tend to do better at spatial processing than girls. And we know that spatial processing is really important for math, right? So math and space are pretty connected. And by spatial processing, I mean things like being able to picture something rotating in your mind or, you know, envisioning how these puzzle pieces might fit together. And so we know that boys tend to do better at that type of processing. And the gender difference there seems to be related to gender differences in math anxiety. So there’s some speculation, too, that it might be that as the math starts to become more reliant on spatial processing, that that’s when we see this separation between boys and girls with respect to how much anxiety they feel about math. So a lot of this is to say, I think the answer to the gender question right now is what I think what we would officially call a bit of a hot mess, <laugh> where I think there’s probably more questions than answers. But I think that there’s definitely something going on. And it really seems to be coming on later in elementary school.
Dan Meyer (23:32):
That’s a refreshingly honest admission from a social scientist, that it’s a hot mess and not perfectly clear, <laugh> so I appreciate that. It’s interesting what you said about the spatial reasoning. In our work creating curriculum at Amplify, I find we lean a lot on trying to tie abstract math towards spatial topics. Like, can you estimate a quantity before you calculate it? Can you identify a pattern and where it breaks before you prove it abstractly? And, I dunno, it’s just interesting to me. I’m just thinking out loud about how I feel like math becomes more abstract rather than more spatial. The farther you venture into secondary math…I’m wondering if I misunderstand what you’re meaning by spatial, and the progression of math from K–12.
Dr. Erin Maloney (24:20):
Yeah, so I think you can still have—you can have math be abstract, but still really relying on spatial processing. Right? And I think part of that is maybe a bit of us having different definitions of when we say “spatial.” So in cognitive science, when we talk about spatial representations or spatial reasoning, it’s really like anything you’re picturing in your mind, any time you’re really picturing these things in your mind and manipulating those images at all. So if you imagine, even like at a simple level, but it’s gonna hold when you’re going more complex as well. So doing like equivalence problems, for example, where you have to balance the equations.
Dan Meyer (24:58):
Yeah.
Dr. Erin Maloney (24:59):
Even just being able to envision things kind of moving around that equal sign and bringing one piece of the equation from this side to the other is actually an extremely spatial kind of reasoning. Right? Or when you’re expanding, that’s actually extremely extremely spatial, despite the fact that it might not feel like it initially. Obviously anything in geometry is going to be very spatial. So I think, in that sense, we would argue that the spatial processing is still playing a pretty important role. But it’s maybe a different type of spatial processing than what we’re seeing at a very early level in elementary school. That said, you can completely disagree with me too. ‘Cause I could also just be wrong, and that’s fair. My kids tell me I’m wrong all the time. So I’m used to <laugh> being told that I’m wrong.
Dan Meyer (25:47):
Well, we’re a bit more deferential on this here show, with our guests. So I would not do that. But it makes sense, what you’re saying about how these are things that you manipulate in your mind, whether they are Xs and Ys or numbers and fractions. These are all things that we manipulate. That ties into differences in this spacial reasoning category, it sounds like, which then contributes to math anxiety. And it does start to feel like there’s a lot going on here, is what it feels like.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (26:14):
You mean hot mess?
Dan Meyer (26:16):
I meant hot mess.
Dr. Erin Maloney (26:17):
Yeah. <laugh>, I think that’s the technical term, right? I’m pretty sure that’s the technical term for it.
Dan Meyer (26:21):
I didn’t know the citation for it. So I didn’t say it. But I knew who in literature named that. But yeah.
Dr. Erin Maloney (26:28):
I’ll write something at some point.
Dan Meyer (26:30):
We’ll cite Maloney, 2022. Yeah. Yes.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (26:34):
So I will say that one of my dreams in thinking about this season and last season, but particularly this season, since we’re really getting to talk to some researchers who get to think about this, and have really interesting conversations about it all the time…one of my dreams is that we’re bringing—’cause we do have some folks who are researchers that are listening, right? But then we also have teachers and folks who are in the classroom every day, and parents and caregivers listening. And so I think one of the beautiful things about the way that I hear you talking about it is you’re thinking about the research, but it’s so applicable. Right? And I wonder if there’s anything else you can say around it. I wanna reduce that divide, that gap, between the research that’s happening and then what’s happening with the kiddos and in the classroom and at home. And I don’t know if it’s like a magic wand thing where like <laugh> if there were changes you’d wanna see at a societal level, to try to combat math anxiety, but you see where I’m going. You know, it’s like <laugh>….
Dr. Erin Maloney (27:39):
- So I’m gonna answer maybe in two ways. So I think the first thing that I’m hearing from you is that idea of diminishing this divide, right? And so one thing I try to keep in mind, as someone who’s a researcher and working in the lab, I will often be called in to talk to teachers and give professional development sessions. And they often want the sage-on-the-stage academic, that stands up there and tells you the answers to things. And one of the first things that I’m gonna admit when I get up there is, “I am not on the front lines.” So what I do in the lab, for me to tell you that that’s gonna work in a classroom of 30 kids who may or may not have eaten dinner that day, and may or may not have snow pants, and may or not…like it’s–
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (28:23):
Mmm, yes.
Dr. Erin Maloney (28:24):
You know, I think we also need to be a little bit reasonable. So I try really hard in my own program of research to make sure that I’m always talking to teachers and to principals and to curriculum designers to make sure that the ideas that I have make sense. In fact, one of the most recent book chapters that I wrote, I wrote in collaboration with a really good friend of mine who’s a principal, an elementary school principal, and a former math consultant. And we wrote it together, to really say like, “Hey, here’s how we can help each other inform how research can inform practice and how practice can also inform research.” ‘Cause he can come to me and say, “I’m doing this. I can’t find anything in the literature to support this, but I’m sure it works!” And we can design something in the lab to test whether or not it seems like it’s gonna work.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (29:11):
That’s huge. Yeah.
Dr. Erin Maloney (29:12):
Empirically. And so I think that open communication is massive. One thing that we’re doing in my own lab to try to keep that open communication available. So to anyone listening who’s ever tried to get access to a journal article, they’re held behind paywalls, right? So one, the way it works, my understanding of this anyway, is that the journal owns the formatted version of the paper. So what we do is we put up audio recordings of all of the research papers that we ever publish. So I’m pretty sure I own the words as the author, and the journal owns the prettified version that you can buy. So we audio-record all of our papers, so that if teachers or parents ever want to hear the actual science that’s going into some of these decisions, they have access to at least the stuff that we do in our lab. And we also put up an infographic for every paper, just highlighting kind of the main questions and main findings. And we do that because I think that the only way for the information to actually be useful is if it gets into the hands of the stakeholders that actually need that information.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (30:21):
And is accessible. That’s huge. That’s huge!
Dr. Erin Maloney (30:24):
Yeah. Yeah. So that’s one way that we try to do it. And like I said, the other thing, we try to always be working with principals and with teachers. I joke that the way that I remedied this in my own life…so my husband’s a teacher; it’s like, I just married one! It’s fine! <laugh> I can grill him on a regular basis, and be like, “I wanna try this experiment. Do you think it’s gonna work?” And he can say, like, “It’s not going to. Here’s why.”
Dan Meyer (30:47):
That’s awesome. Marrying a participant—you know, a research participant—is unethical, of course. Would not clear IRB. But turning your partner into a participant? Like, what are you gonna do? That’s great.
Dr. Erin Maloney (30:57):
Yeah, no, that’s fair game.
Dan Meyer (30:58):
Yep.
Dr. Erin Maloney (30:59):
Yeah. So that’s—I think we we compensate each other <laugh>. So, no…so I do joke a little bit about that. He was a teacher simply ’cause he wanted to be one. Not ’cause I needed him to be one. But, I think that communication part is, is really key. That’s one thing. Then the other part of the question or the other sort of piece of the question that I was hearing is that idea of, how do we fix math anxiety. Right? Like, what’s the great, “I’m glad that there’s a whole bunch of time and effort and energy going into trying to understand this, but what, where are we at?” And I think with that, it’s really, really promising. So there’s been a lot of research coming out looking at how best to help children or even adults manage their own anxiety about math. And there’s a few really interesting strategies that seem to be quite effective. So one, and I don’t know if—um, it feels weird calling him Dr. Ramirez, just ’cause I know him well!—but I don’t know if Dr. Ramirez would’ve talked about this when he chatted with you, but he has some really interesting work on expressive writing. Did he chat about that at all?
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (32:07):
He didn’t, but I’ve read some of his work about it and I think it’s so fascinating.
Dr. Erin Maloney (32:11):
Yeah! So, OK, well, I’ll tell you about his work on it.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (32:13):
Yes, please. Please.
Dr. Erin Maloney (32:14):
Because it’s super-useful. So when we talked about that idea of how anxiety causes these thoughts and ruminations, and they tie up the memory resources that you need, what Gerardo has found is that when you get students to write about their anxiety for about 10 minutes before they do a test, what ends up happening is they end up doing better on the test, relative to if they would not have written about their anxiety at all. And this is particularly true for students who are really high in anxiety. OK? And the idea is that all of those thoughts that they were going to have about the test or the consequences of the test, et cetera, you just kind of get ’em…it’s like a mind dump where you get ’em all onto the page at first before you even go to do the test. And now when you go to do the test, you’re not having to do two things at once. You’re no longer dealing with these thoughts ’cause you got ’em all out on the paper beforehand. And so Gerardo has some really interesting work showing that that works for math anxiety. And then it also works for just testing anxiety in general. And so that’s a strategy that I love. I also—part of what I really love about it is it’s so low-cost, right? You need a paper and a pencil and it’s great. So those are always my favorite strategies, the ones that don’t really cost us anything. So that’s one way of dealing with like the cognitive part of the anxiety. The other thing you can do is try to deal with the anxiety part of the anxiety. So for that, what we find is that the typical strategies that you’re gonna see for anxiety tend to work for math anxiety. So things like focused breathing. Right? Making sure you’re doing deep inhales and exhales. That really diaphragmatic breathing seems to be quite helpful. We know that what we call progressive desensitization is really key. That’s the idea of doing things, you know, starting with the questions that you know how to handle. And then gradually working up to the more difficult questions. So you’re sort of gradually exposing yourself to the more complex stuff. And how that can play out on an actual test at school is, you sit down, and instead of just starting with question number one, you actually read the whole test, see which questions you feel like you know the best, start with those questions, and that helps build your confidence so that you’re better able to tackle the questions that are maybe a little bit outside of where you’re currently at. So that seems to be really helpful. The other part that I will say, too, that’s extremely helpful: So we know that anxiety really ties up those memory resources. And so the more you can make the math automatic, the more immune it’s going to be to anxiety in the moment. And so I know that this part can be a little bit controversial, because we don’t wanna necessarily demotivate children, and kill the enthusiasm for math that we’re trying to cultivate…but really, you know, really committing your arithmetic facts to memory can be extremely helpful. So really learning those times tables, really learning your addition and subtraction facts. ‘Cause what happens is, then when you’re in a situation where you need that information, even if you’re anxious and you’re working with fewer cognitive resources than what you would normally have, you actually don’t need that many cognitive resources to be able to pull something from memory that you’ve memorized. So it really helps to kind of protect you against some of the negative impacts of the anxiety while you’re doing that test.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (35:37):
And you’re not using all your cognitive resources to figure out seven times eight, because you can really focus on what you’re trying to do with that. Oh, that’s fascinating. Yeah. Yeah.
Dr. Erin Maloney (35:47):
Yes. No, a hundred percent right. And so I know that’s one that, like I said, I know it can be somewhat controversial because it’s…you know, we’ve talked about—or we haven’t talked about in this conversation, but we often talk about—the idea of drilling and killing. Right? So you drill the facts, you kill the, the enthusiasm. But I think that there are ways that we can drill arithmetic facts, or help make them automatic, but still fun, right? It doesn’t have to always be in a high-pressure kind of way.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (36:16):
Totally. And we’ve talked about fluency, and I’m sure we’ll talk about it more in the Lounge. And that is interesting, that link between anxiety when the fluency isn’t there, that—or, of course we hear about anxiety with timed tests, but the idea of that IS something you can do to reduce it, because you have those facts just at your ready. Right?
Dr. Erin Maloney (36:37):
Yeah. So I actually, again, I’m gonna be a little bit controversial. So I don’t hate timed tests in the way that a lot of people do. But I love time to practice. So I think once we’ve got to a point where children have a fairly decent understanding of skills, of a skill, once they’ve got a fairly decent grasp on it, then I love the idea of the timed practice. So it can be still in a low-pressure situation, where in many ways it doesn’t matter if you get the answer to the question correct. But we’re practicing doing it in a situation in which you might be feeling a little bit of pressure, but it’s not real pressure, if that makes sense. And I think that can be really, really useful for students. And again, it can be done in a fun way, right? It doesn’t have to be these super-intense ways. It can be fun. But I think that in life there are situations in which the time that it takes you to complete a problem matter. And I think that we have to make sure that we don’t get too far away from that.
Dan Meyer (37:40):
Yeah. It feels like we should do an entire other episode thinking about ways to develop that fluency and automaticity that don’t contribute to anxiety, or create further disparities between people who are high math anxiety and low math anxiety. Not a small question, I’m sure. And I appreciate you alluding to all of that. You know, this whole thing, as you said, is quite the hot mess. And I feel like you, Dr. Maloney, have helped us make this a little less messy, in our heads, and hopefully the listeners’ heads. I really appreciate that. I just love…you’ve mentioned lots of resources that you have. You’ve alluded to them: audiobook-style readings of your research, which I need ’cause I just finished, you know, Harry Potter, the seventh book, so I need a new thing to listen to like that. Also infographics. Can you tell our listeners where they can find this work of yours, and if there are any other kinds of resources that you wanna plug for our listeners here?
Dr. Erin Maloney (38:32):
Yeah, for sure. So all of our resources can be found on my lab website. So the address for that is www.ErinMaloney.ca. So there we have, like you said, the infographics and the audio articles and all that stuff. And then we also have a link to a new kids’ book out, actually, that a colleague of mine and I have published recently, that really walks through some of these strategies on combating math anxiety. The book is written as a children’s book, so it’s Peyton & Charlie Challenge Math. But it secretly is a book that would also work for adults. So if you are a parent that’s a little bit anxious about math, or a teacher that maybe is a little bit anxious, and you wanna see how some of these strategies can play out, in that book—we linked to it on the website, but it is available for purchase on Amazon. And the one thing I will say about the book, ’cause this is something that we were pretty proud of, so Sheri-Lynn Skwarchuk, who is a school psychologist, and I wrote the book. And it’s available for purchase at our cost price, so we don’t actually make any money on the book. It was literally just a way of getting some of the science out to people who might be able to benefit from it.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (39:45):
Reducing that divide!
Dr. Erin Maloney (39:46):
Yeah, well that’s what we’re trying to do! Right? So I think in the U.S., I think it’s like $6 on Amazon. And then in terms of other resources, we’re in the process right now of creating some informational videos and and stuff like that that hopefully will be useful for parents and for teachers, just in terms of understanding a little bit more about the anxiety and understanding how to deal with the anxiety in the classroom more, at home or wherever it might be coming up.
Dan Meyer (40:15):
Well, thanks so much. I really appreciate—we appreciate!—you coming on, and hearing about how you’re trying to bridge so many different barriers from research to practice, and school to home. It’s just really inspiring. And we’d love to have you back on sometime. So thank you so much for joining us.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (40:29):
I feel like we’ve just hung out! Don’t you, Dan?
Dan Meyer (40:31):
Are we rolling here? Oh my gosh, we’re rolling. I just thought we’re just hanging. Yeah,
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (40:34):
I thought we were just hanging!
Dr. Erin Maloney (40:36):
I know, I do, I really appreciate that it has a very kind of chill vibe to it.
Dan Meyer (40:41):
Chill vibe. Like a lounge.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (40:42):
It’s the lounge!
Dan Meyer (40:43):
Thank you. You get us; you get us. <laugh>
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (40:45):
Dan Meyer. I was shopping for children’s books, and there was this book, and it was talking about being at home with Mom. And it’s going through all the things that the child did that day with Mom. It’s like, “We played outside, we ran through the sprinklers, we even did some homework.” And it shows them sitting at the table with the homework, that’s clearly math homework, in front of them. And the mom is like, “Harrumph!” Like a very perplexed, anxious face. And there’s all these question marks above her. And it’s just like,
Dan Meyer (41:24):
“There should not be numbers on that paper!”
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (41:25):
Exactly. And the child is like, “Ohhhh,” you know. And I mean, I have to give credit to the illustrator, because they really did capture the clear message of this interaction, which was sitting down to do math homework or think about math together is a source of angst. Right? According to this author and according to too many people. And so I think what’s really important is that we recognize those images when we see them out there and speak back to them, and say, “Hey, wait a second.” Yeah, it can feel like that, and it doesn’t have to. And what’s going on that that’s just the assumed way that it’s gonna feel, to sit down and math together. You know?
Dan Meyer (42:11):
Yeah. It feels like we all have a lot of work to do on the whole math-anxiety front. Dr. Maloney helped us see how parents play a part, educators play a part, society and how they create people plays its own part in how we all define math as a thing where we evaluate student thought or where students play it with their thoughts, has its own huge part as well. So yeah, it was a really fantastic conversation with Dr. Maloney. I hope you folks will check out the show notes, where you will find links to Dr. Maloney’s website. A lot of her work, which as you heard, is very geared towards practitioners and parents and even directly at kids, especially the new children’s book she co-authored, Peyton & Charlie Challenge Math.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (42:55):
Next time we’re gonna dive even more into the nitty gritty of combating math anxiety. To do that, we’re actually gonna be joined—I am so excited about this—by Dr. Rosemarie Truglio from Sesame Workshop.
Rosemarie Truglio (43:09):
Our core audience are two- to four-year-olds, and they love math. And what’s not to love? Children don’t come with this math anxiety. Math anxiety is learned.
Dan Meyer (43:23):
So excited.
Dr. Erin Maloney (43:24):
Sesame Street was a huge part of my childhood and my toddler doesn’t know it yet, but Sesame Street is coming. It’s coming. Like, we’re we’re gonna introduce Sesame Street to him. We just haven’t yet.
Dan Meyer (43:37):
Sesame Street straight raised me.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (43:38):
Right?
Dan Meyer (43:39):
Yeah. Don’t tell my parents. But that’s, yeah, that’s true. I’m excited, too. It’s gonna be a blast.
Bethany Lockhart Johnson (43:45):
I’m really excited. I think that the more we dive into this topic—which, again, we’re gonna look at math anxiety from a lot of different angles—and I’m excited to talk to Dr. Truglio about how we can take this research and these conversations that are happening about math and how it can actually impact what’s happening in homes. ‘Cause we wanna help create positive relationships with mathematics, with kids in math. I’m so excited. And I hope you folks keep listening. We love having you here in the Lounge. And if you haven’t already, please subscribe to Math Teacher Lounge, wherever you get podcasts. And if you like what you’re hearing, please leave us a rating and a review. It helps more listeners to find the show, and let other folks know about this show. Recommendations are great. Thanks so much for listening.
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Erin Maloney is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa. Her research sits at the intersection of Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and Education and focuses on cognitive and emotional factors that relate to academic achievement. She is a world-renowned expert on the study of math anxiety, conducting research in the lab, in homes, and in classrooms with children, parents, and their teachers. She is passionate about both knowledge mobilization and equity, diversity, and inclusion within education and science.


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