Skip to main content
Amplify Desmos Math: Mini-lessons

How should I use mini-lessons?

Updated over 5 months ago

What are mini-lessons?

Amplify Desmos Math mini-lessons are teacher-led, 15-minute lessons that are aligned to the most critical topics throughout a unit.

Mini-lessons reinforce the same topics and content students see in core instruction. Teachers can use mini-lessons to provide targeted intervention to small groups of students who need additional support, or to re-engage students when they need more time to think about a concept or skill. Teachers have access to mini-lessons from previous grade levels.

Mini-lessons are a K–8 feature for Amplify Desmos Math.

Teacher’s Guide view.

Print mini-lesson.

Where can I find mini-lessons?

Recommendations of when to use mini-lessons can be found in differentiation tables throughout the unit.

Mini-lessons can be found in the Differentiation tab of an Amplify Desmos Math lesson.

How to deliver mini-lessons

Mini-lessons are designed to be delivered in 3 steps:

  1. Modeled review: teachers work through an example with students.

  2. Guided practice: teachers guide students through faded examples, where scaffolds are heavier early on and are gradually removed.

  3. Check for understanding: an opportunity for students to show what they have learned.

Did this answer your question?