Families and caregivers, welcome to Amplify Desmos Math K–5!
Welcome to the Amplify Desmos Math K–5 Caregiver Hub. We hope your student enjoys exploring math, working with friends to solve problems, and learning new and interesting concepts. And we hope you enjoy the math journey with them! Below are some suggestions and resources for how you can support their learning at home.
Learn more about Amplify Desmos Math.
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Caregiver Unit Resources
For every unit of the program, we’ve created a Caregiver Resource that provides a summary of key concepts, plus a problem from the lesson practice set you can work through with your student. You’ll find a Caregiver Resource for each unit, in both English and Spanish.
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Kindergarten
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Grade 1
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Grade 2
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Grade 3
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Grade 4
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Grade 5
Access Amplify Desmos Math at home.
In addition to a print Student Edition workbook, your student will have digital access to all learning, practice, and assessment materials through the Amplify platform. The digital curriculum can be accessed in school and at home by following these instructions:
- Click the Amplify Desmos Math button.
- Select Log in with Amplify.
- Enter your student’s username and password provided by your student’s teacher.
- Select the desired grade level.
Once logged in, caregivers can view student work by opening previous assignments.
Learn how to navigate the student home page.
Amplify Desmos MathMaterials overview
Amplify Desmos Math supports blended learning with supporting print materials and a unique digital experience. All K–5 lessons are available in a write-in Student Edition book. Many of the lessons include hands-on activities with manipulatives, tools that help students understand abstract concepts by making them tangible. Your student will also work with digital devices for an age-appropriate number of lessons.
When students use devices, teachers can monitor their work in real time, making sure they get the exact support that they need at every part of the lesson, in and outside of class.
Components of a lesson
Students in an Amplify Desmos Math classroom can be seen (and heard!) asking questions, debating answers, justifying their thinking, grappling with problems, and working together and independently.
A typical Amplify Desmos Math lesson includes:
- Warm-up: A short, attention-getting problem to pique students’ interest in the lesson.
- Activities: One to two mini-activities that challenge students’ problem-solving skills.
- Synthesis: Discussion to review and bring together the important concepts from the lesson.
- Show What You Know and Reflection: Questions for students to show what they know from the lesson. (Note: The Show What You Know lesson assessment is optional for kindergarten and grade 1.)
- Centers: Student-led activity stations that reinforce the math learned during lesson activities through interactive and often game-like formats. In kindergarten and grade 1, time for Centers is built into the last 15 minutes of every lesson.
To support, strengthen, and stretch students’ learning after the lesson, Amplify Desmos Math offers options for:
- Differentiation: Mini-Lessons, Centers, Extensions, Boost Personalized Learning, and Fluency Practice.
- Practice: Additional problems your student’s teacher may assign for classwork or homework.
Support math learning at home.
You can support your student’s math learning outside of school in many ways:
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Review practice problems together.
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Play a Center game.
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Find the math in everyday life.
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Emphasize that getting stuck is okay.
Get more information.
Have a question about Amplify Desmos Math? Visit our help library to search for articles with answers to your program questions. For additional support, please contact your student’s teacher.