Families and caregivers, welcome to Amplify Desmos Math Texas for grades K–5
Welcome to the Amplify Desmos Math Texas K–5 Caregiver Hub. We’ve designed this space to help you support your student along their math journey. 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.
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What is Amplify Desmos Math Texas?
Amplify Desmos Math Texas is a core math curriculum built for the TEKS in kindergarten through grade 5. We developed the program around the idea that a structured approach to problem-based learning builds on students’ curiosity to develop lasting grade-level understanding for all students. Each lesson offers opportunities to develop students’ comprehension; connect their ideas; grow their skill fluency; and empower them to ask questions, explore, and make discoveries.
Amplify Desmos Math Texas uses a student-centered approach to instruction, which has been proven to significantly increase math learning. Our mission is for your students to learn math—and to love learning math!
In every lesson, the Amplify Desmos Math Texas curriculum poses engaging and relevant problems to solve, giving students daily opportunities to think critically, work collaboratively, and actively participate in their own learning.
Student-centered math instruction
Student-centered instruction may look different from the way students learned math in the past and from the way you learned math. Instead of memorizing formulas and tricks, student-centered learning gives students opportunities to figure out how math works. Research shows that students and teachers prefer this method, and teachers report that student-centered learning helps their students learn more math.
This way of learning helps students:
- Develop key skills for success in college and the workplace, such as using technology, completing projects independently and with others, and persevering through difficult problems.
- Understand how math concepts work.
- Remember what they learn in class and apply their knowledge to new situations.
- Perform better on standardized tests and have more growth in their grades than their peers who learn through other methods.
- Learn to communicate in writing and verbally, understand and challenge the opinions of others, and build confidence in solving new problems.
What materials do students use?
Amplify Desmos Math Texas supports blended learning with supportive print materials and a unique digital experience. All Amplify Desmos Math Texas K–5 lessons are available in a write-in Student Edition book. Many of the lessons include hands-on activities with manipulatives. An age-appropriate number of lessons enable students to use digital devices, such as laptops or tablets. These include enhanced digital experiences that teachers can assign to students.
Here’s what you can expect for your students from Amplify Desmos Math Texas:
- Full coverage the TEKS for Mathematics.
- Lessons that drive classroom discussions, so students can work toward a shared understanding and sense of community.
- Responsive Feedback that interprets student responses in context and encourages perseverance and revision.
- Easy-to-follow lesson plans tested in classrooms across the country, with clear teaching suggestions, strategies, and Math Language Routines.
- Practice problems to support fluency and help students review previous topics.
- Recommended differentiation suggestions for teachers so that they can meet the needs of diverse learners.
- Formative assessments that provide information on student understanding, so that teachers can adjust their instruction to meet the needs of all students in their class.
- Summative assessments that help teachers understand what students know about the math content they’ve been learning.
- Daily lesson-level assessments so that teachers can frequently check for understanding.
When students use devices, teachers can monitor students’ 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.
Students can access their digital work at home. Here’s an article on how to navigate the student home page.
What does a lesson look like?
Students in an Amplify Desmos Math Texas classroom can be seen (and heard!)—asking questions, debating answers, justifying their thinking, grappling with problems, and working together and independently.
Here’s what a typical Amplify Desmos Math Texas lesson includes:
- Warm-up: A short, attention-getting problem to get students interested 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 the teacher to assign in 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.
Here’s what is available after the lesson to support, strengthen, and stretch students’ learning:
- Differentiation: Mini-lessons, Centers, extensions, personalized learning, and fluency practice.
- Practice: Additional problems your student’s teacher may assign for classwork or homework.
How can I support math learning at home?
Use our Unit Support for Caregivers.
You’ll find a Caregiver Resource for each unit, in both English and Spanish.
Kindergarten
Unit 1: Beginning Number Concepts
Unit 2: Numbers 1–10
Unit 3: Shapes, Coins, and Financial Literacy
Unit 4: Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Unit 5: Make and Break Apart Numbers Within 10
Unit 6: Numbers 0–20
Unit 7: Solid Shapes All Around Us
- English
- Spanish (Coming soon!)
Grade 1
Unit 1: Adding, Subtracting, and Working With Data
Unit 2: Story Problems Within 10
Unit 3: Adding and Subtracting Within 20
Unit 4: Numbers to 99 and Financial Literacy
Unit 5: Numbers to 120
Unit 6: Length Measurement Within 120 Units
Unit 7: Geometry and Time
- English
- Spanish (Coming soon!)
Grade 2
Unit 1: Working With Data and Developing Financial Literacy
Unit 2: Adding and Subtracting Within 100
Unit 3: Measuring and Solving Problems Using Length
Unit 4: Numbers to 1,200
Unit 5: Geometry and Time
Unit 6: Adding and Subtracting Within 1,000
Unit 7: Equal Groups and Area
- English
- Spanish (Coming soon!)
Grade 3
Unit 1: Introducing Multiplication
Unit 2: Adding, Subtracting, and Rounding Larger Numbers
Unit 3: Relating Multiplication to Division
Unit 4: Fractions as Numbers
Unit 5: Measurement and Financial Literacy
Unit 6: Sorting and Classifying Shapes
Grade 4
Unit 1: Fraction Equivalence and Comparison
Unit 2: Extending Operations to Fractions
Unit 3: From Hundredths to One Billion
Unit 4: Mathematical Relationships and Financial Literacy
Unit 5: Multiplying and Dividing Multi-Digit Numbers
Unit 6: Angles and Properties of Shapes
Grade 5
Unit 1: Volume, Factors, and Expressions
Unit 2: Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
Unit 3: Multi-Digit Multiplication and Division and Financial Literacy
Unit 4: Place Value Patterns and Decimal Operations
Unit 5: Measurement, Fraction Operations, and Data
Unit 6: Geometry and Algebraic Reasoning
Review practice problems together.
Your student’s teacher may assign practice problems at the end of each lesson for classwork or homework. If your student has already completed the practice problems for the lesson, ask your student to walk you through how they solved each problem, or talk about any parts that were challenging for them. Ask your student follow-up questions to encourage the use of math language as they explain their thinking, such as, “How do you know?”, “How can you show your thinking?”, or “How would you describe that?” If students are stuck, ask support questions, such as, “What information do you know here?” or “How could you represent this problem?”
Play a Center game.
Your student’s teacher may introduce a Center game with students in the lesson or beyond the lesson. These games are aligned to the math of the unit and can be played with students outside of class. Your student’s teacher may introduce a Center game to students during or after completing a lesson or you may need to teach the game before you play by using easy-to-follow instructions.
Grade K
Connecting Cubes: Build to Match
Math Fingers: Show and Say
Grade 1
Find the Pair: Make 10
Check It Off: Add or Subtract Within 10
Grade 2
Capture Squares: Add or Subtract within 10
How Close? Add to 100
Grade 3
Capture Squares: Add Within 20
Capture Squares: Multiply With 2, 5, and 10
Grade 4
Can You Draw It?: Area and Perimeter
Fraction Match: Beginner Fraction Models
Grade 5
Rectangle Rumble: Factors 1–5
Compare: Divide Within 100
Read the Unit Story with your student.
Each unit in Amplify Desmos Math Texas K–5 begins with a read-aloud story to engage students and provide context for the math of the unit. Elements and characters from the Unit Story then appear in lessons throughout the rest of the unit.
Grade K
Unit 1 Story: The First Day of School
Unit 2 Story: What’s in a Restaurant?
Unit 3 Story: A Great Shape Adventure
Unit 4 Story: Casey’s Town
Unit 5 Story: Where Is Harry?
Unit 6 Story: Winners
Unit 7 Story: Everyone Needs Help Sometimes (Coming soon!)
Grade 1
Unit 1 Story: Ying’s New Town
Unit 2 Story: Let’s Grow!
Unit 3 Story: Impossible
Unit 4 Story: The Collectors
Unit 5 Story: The Day of the Wazzle-Squash
Unit 6 Story: Side by Side
Unit 7 Story: A Potluck for Pia (Comin soon!)
Grade 2
Unit 1 Story: A New Class Pet
Unit 2 Story: Heroes of Pineapple Street
Unit 3 Story: What Orson Imagined
Unit 4 Story: 302 Ricotta Drive
Unit 5 Story: Arjun the Artist
Unit 6 Story: Where Eli Went
Unit 7 Story: On Clementine Court (Coming soon!)
Grade 3
Unit 1 Story: My Name is Harper
Unit 2 Story: The View From Up Here
Unit 3 Story: Home Cooking
Unit 4 Story: Coen and Obita
Unit 5 Story: Just Stick With It, Sasha
Unit 6 Story: Through Piho’s Eyes
Grade 4
Unit 1 Story: One Step at a Time
Unit 2 Story: Finny
Unit 3 Story: Myles and the Loggerheads
Unit 4 Story: Just for Fun
Unit 5 Story: Special Day, Special Lei
Unit 6 Story: Captain Bogwart’s Treasure
Grade 5
Unit 1 Story: Joyful Green
Unit 2 Story: Princess Sweetsocks
Unit 3 Story: Princess Sweetsocks
Unit 3 Story: Andrea
Unit 4 Story: Market Day
Unit 6 Story: Hanan Pacha
Find the math in everyday life.
Relate math to daily activities at home, whether grocery shopping, preparing a meal, or planning for a trip to the store. Your student can help you figure out how many more apples there are than oranges in the grocery cart, show how to split a sandwich into fourths, or figure out how much change you’ll receive in exchange for a $10 bill. Encourage your student to point out ways that their caregivers use math in their daily tasks.
Emphasize that getting stuck is okay.
Remind your student that getting stuck is part of the process and a necessary part of learning. Many students (and adults) fear making mistakes. But research shows that making mistakes helps your brain grow more. When your student gets stuck on a problem, encourage them to try different strategies, even if they’re not sure if they are right.
Access our Featured Collection of free K–5 Lessons and Activities.
Explore free K–5 content in our Featured Collection. With our featured collections, you can access:
- Digital lessons: Engaging interactive lessons.
- Print lessons: Supportive print materials with interactive presentation screens.
- Mini-lessons: A mix of print and digital activities designed for small-group instruction.
- Math routines and other bite-sized activities.
Click here to access the collection and sign up for a free account.
How can I access the program at home?
Your student will have access to all learning, practice, and assessment materials through the Amplify platform. You and your student can access the digital curriculum 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.