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 sections below to find navigation tips and more program information as you explore materials from each grade.
Digital access
- Locate the Digital Access flyer from your Reviewer Binder.
- Click the orange button below to access the digital platform.
- Click login with Amplify.
- Enter the username and password provided on your Digital Access flyer.
Navigation tips
Linked here, you’ll find helpful tips for navigating Amplify Desmos Math. We recommend reading these pages alongside the program’s print materials and digital experience to gain a deeper understanding the program.
You’ll read about navigating program features including:
- Navigating the digital program
- Navigating the print program
Unpacking materials
A key step in the review process will be identifying and organizing the physical components that have been delivered to you. Below you will find a list of physical resources to expect for each grade. You will also want to refer to the materials inventory checklist found in your reviewer binder.
Program design
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Program components
Amplify Desmos Math California integrates a blend of print and digital resources. The program includes the following print components:
- Additional Practice (Student Workbook)
- Teacher Edition (two volumes)
- Student Edition (two volumes)
- Math Language Development Resource
- Intervention, Extension, and Investigations Resource
- Assessment Resource
- Center Resources (grade K–5 only)
- Additional Practice (Teacher Resources)
Category 1: Mathematics Content/Alignment with the Standards
Standards maps
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Evaluation Criteria Maps
- Kindergarten
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
Drivers of Investigation, Standards for Mathematical Practice, and Content Connections
The Why, How, and What of Engaging Students in Mathematical Tasks
The Drivers of Investigation are intended to spark student curiosity and motivate students to engage with mathematics by providing compelling reasons to care about the work of mathematics. The 3 Drivers of Investigation – (DI1) make sense of the world, (DI2) predict what could happen, and (DI3) impact the future – work in conjunction with the 8 Standards for Mathematical Practice and the 4 Content Connections.
In Amplify Desmos Math California, students investigate how mathematical concepts come to life in intriguing and authentic real-world and mathematical contexts.
These investigations are provided throughout the year through open and authentic tasks of varying durations – through lesson activities, unit-level Explore lessons, and longer course-level Investigations. Each lesson and investigation is grounded around the why, how, and what of the learning experience.
Click the links below to view how the Standards for Mathematical Practice are represented in each grade-level.
- Kindergarten
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
California Environmental Principles and Concepts Alignment
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. Please refer to the teacher edition front matter for more specific grade level EP&C alignment.
Category 2: Program Organization
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.
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 in the teacher edition front matter for grade level specific Big Idea lesson design and alignment.
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.
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 students synthesize and solidify the big ideas.
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
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.
Lesson Structure
Each lesson within Amplify Desmos Math follows the same structure.
Warm-Up
Every Amplify Desmos Math 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 Dailey Center Time built into every lesson.
Practice & 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
Scope and Sequence
Below you can view the scope and sequence for each grade-level.
Category 3: 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 assessment
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.
Each unit (grade 2 – Algebra 1), begins with an 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.
Students engage with rigorous grade-level mathematics through a variety of formats and tasks in the End-of-Unit Assessment. A combination of autoscored and rubric-scored items provide deep insights into student thinking. All Amplify Desmos Math End-of-Unit Assessments include two forms.
Sub-Unit Quizzes are embedded regularly in Grade 1 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.
These checklists enable teachers to observe key skills and concepts that cannot be assessed on a pencil-and-paper assessment in Kindergarten and First Grade. The checklists outline the supports students need to get where they need to go.
Lesson-level assessments
Amplify Desmos Math lessons include daily moments of assessment provide valuable evidence of learning for both the teacher and student.
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. Show What You Know is optional in grades K–1.
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.
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 until.
Benchmark assessments
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CASSPP-aligned assessment preparation
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Data and reporting
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Category 4: Access and Equity
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Math Identity and Community
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K–5 Unit stories
Multilingual and English learner supports
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ELSF partnership
Vocabulary routines
Math Language Development Resource
Multilingual glossary
Accessibility
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Differentiation: In-Lesson Teacher Moves
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. 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
A comprehensive set of differentiation suggestions and resources are provided for teachers to use as needed after each lesson. This includes Mini-Lessons for Supporting, Centers for Strengthening, and Extension activities for Stretching students’ understanding of the lesson goal.
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 provide more explicit instruction opportunities and leverage a consistent instructional routine (Modeled Review, Guided Practice, Check for Understanding).
Centers
Centers are engaging, hands-on games for students to play collaboratively to strengthen their understanding of key skills and concepts for K–5. 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. 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.
Digital Resources to Support, Strengthen, and Stretch
Personalized Practice
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Fluency Practice
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Math Adventures
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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.
Category 5: Instructional Planning and Support
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Year at a Glance
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Navigating the program
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The Math of the Unit
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Sub-Unit Math That Matters Most
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Lesson at a Glance
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