amplify Desmos Math California
Welcome, Reviewers to Amplify Desmos Math California!
The video on the right will walk you through program navigation and how to access key features.
Click the links in the drop-down sections below to explore sample materials from each grade.
For helpful navigation tips and more program information, view the Amplify Desmos Math Program Guide for Elementary (K–5) or the Amplify Desmos Math Program Guide for Secondary.
Category 1: Mathematics Content/Alignment with the Standards
Standards maps
- Kindergarten
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
Evaluation Criteria Maps
- Kindergarten
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
Category 2: Program Organization
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Proficiency Progression
Lessons and units in Amplify Desmos Math 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.
Lesson Design
Amplify Desmos Math 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 to their prior knowledge or personal experience, which ensures that everyone has access to the upcoming work.
Considerations for launching include:
- Try to keep it short. Set students up to get started with a clear and catchy invitation to the math.
- Wait to model a specific way to solve. Leave space for a variety of different student approaches at the outset.
- Pair up. Encourage small groups of students to talk through their thinking as they 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.
Considerations for monitoring include:
- Look for students’ strategies and check in with students as they work.
- Ask questions to learn what students are thinking. The suggested differentiation moves can be used to support, strengthen, and stretch their ideas.
- Use the Differentiation Teacher Moves to help you select and sequence student ideas to highlight when connecting.
Connect
Teachers connect students’ ideas to the key learning goals of the lesson, facilitating class discussions that help students synthesize and solidify the big ideas.
Considerations for connecting include:
- Save a few minutes at the end of each lesson activity to bring students back together to discuss.
- It’s OK to start the class discussion before all students have finished the activity.
- Center discussions on students’ ideas by displaying one or more of their responses and connecting the responses to the Key Takeaway of the activity.
Routines
Instructional routines can be found throughout each lesson in the Teacher Edition and digital Presentation Screens. 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. Here is a list of the instructional routines used in the Amplify Desmos Math curriculum:
- 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
- Decide and Defend
- Notice and Wonder
- Number Talk
- Tell a Story
- Think-Pair-Share
- Which One Doesn’t Belong?
Program structure
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Lesson Structure
Scope and sequence
Program sequence
Category 3: Assessments
Unit and lesson-level assessment
Performance tasks
Benchmark assessments
CASSPP-aligned assessment preparation
Self-Reflection
Data and reporting
Category 4: Access and Equity
In-lesson differentiation
Within every lesson activity, teachers can use the Differentiation Teacher Moves suggestions to provide in-the-moment instructional support while students are engaged in the work of the lesson.
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.
Data to guide instruction
Amplify Desmos Math Reporting provides teachers and administrators with unified data insights so that educators have visibility into what students know about grade-level math. Areas of potential student need are highlighted to allow teachers to modify their instruction and target differentiated support. With actionable insights from mCLASS Benchmark and Progress Monitoring Assessments, teachers are given recommendations they need to inform Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention.
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.
Amplify Desmos Math Mini-Lessons are the perfect complement to our problem-based approach, because they provide more explicit instruction opportunities and leverage a consistent instructional routine (Modeled Review, Guided Practice, Check for Understanding).
Fluency Practice
Math Adventures
Centers (Grades K–5)
Centers are engaging, hands-on games for students to play collaboratively to strengthen their understanding of key skills and concepts.
Centers are designed so that students engage in them with minimal teacher direction and support. Each Center has multiple stages, so that students return to the same Center game repeatedly within and across grade levels. The content of the Center grows in complexity to align with grade-level standards in a scaffolded manner.
Extensions
Amplify Desmos Math extensions are 10- to 15-minute activities aligned to the most critical topics in a sub-unit. Extensions can provide targeted intervention to small groups of students ready for an extra challenge or the whole class.
Amplify Desmos Math extensions build on our student-led, problem-based approach, providing more opportunities for students to engage in creative and rigorous problems that can be approached with different strategies.
These low-lift activities give teachers flexibility and provide students with open-ended, hands-on problems they can choose from.
Boost Personalized Learning
Category 5: Instructional Planning and Support
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Digital Access
Locate the Digitial Access flyer from your Reviewer Binder.
Click the orange button below to access the digital platform.
Click login with Amplify.
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Contact
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