For the 2024–2025 school year, we’re making hundreds of Amplify Desmos Math lessons available for free on Desmos Classroom.
In addition to these K–12 lessons, teachers can also access free Center Games, practice activities, and differentiation resources.
Access the lessons
To access these lessons visit the curriculum page and select a grade level.
The units that compose the grade you selected will appear.
Select a unit.
Teachers will be able to access the following free resources for each unit:
Unit Overview
The Unit Overview page displays the content that is covered in the unit and each of its sub-units, as well as the Center activities for each unit.
Unit Story
Unit stories are brief fiction stories read aloud by the teacher at the beginning of each unit. They connect to the math of the unit and introduce characters that students will get to know as they engage in the unit.
Teachers read the story aloud from their Teacher Edition while projecting the story illustrations for students. The illustrations can be found in the Teacher Presentation Screens for the story.
Try It lessons
There are at least three Try It lessons in every unit. You can identify these free lessons by their "Try It!" banner.
Sub-units
Some units will have a complete sub-unit available for free. These sub-units are sequences of four to eight lessons that allow teachers to see how Amplify Desmos Math lessons progress, and how concepts and real-world connections are introduced.
Personalized learning and intervention resources
In addition to the free Amplify Desmos Math lessons, teachers have access to more than 20 supplemental Boost personalized learning and intervention activities for each grade.
Differentiation resources include Mini-Lessons, Extensions, and Boost Personalized Learning. You can find these resources on the “Differentiation beyond the lesson” tab of specific Try It lessons.
Mini-Lessons
Mini-Lessons are teacher-led, small-group intervention that align to core instruction and leverage consistent instructional routines such as Modeled Review, Guided Practice, and Check for Understanding.
Extensions
These are activities that focus on ways of thinking and how to solve a problem rather than simply getting an answer. Extensions are accessible anytime you see a full sub-unit of Try It lessons.
Boost Personalized Learning
Students can access on their own devices personalized practice activities that are aligned to core instruction. These daily, 15-minute activities complement learning and provide another layer of support to the in-lesson differentiation.
A comparison between free content and the full curriculum
While any teacher can access free lessons from Amplify Desmos Math, the full curriculum has so much more to offer.
| Description What is it? | For Desmos Classroom Teachers
 | For Amplify Desmos Math Customers
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Course Overviews | An overview of the scope-and-sequence for each grade, the structure of units and lessons, and advice for navigating and teaching with the program. | Not included | Included for all grades |
Unit Overviews | An overview of each unit, what the goal is, what skills and standards are covered, and the content of each sub-unit. | Included for all units | Included for all units |
Narrative Unit Stories | The Unit Story provides an engaging narrative to frame students' explorations throughout the unit, and often introduces characters or stories that help contextualize lessons and bring them to life! | Included for all units | Included for all units |
Lessons | Engaging standards-aligned lessons designed to center student thinking. | At least three Try It lessons included for each unit | Instructional content for the whole year! |
Center Games | 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. | Some Center Games included | All Center activities included |
Sub-Unit Quiz | Each unit typically includes one or two sub-unit quizzes. Quizzes are designed for students to show what they know and can do based on what they have learned in the unit. | Not included | All Sub-Unit quizzes included |
mCLASS Benchmark Assessments (Grades K–8) | The beginning-of-year, middle-of-year, and end-of-year assessments analyze student responses to reveal underlying math thinking, evaluate what students know about grade-level math, and inform instructional decisions. | Not included | Included |
Pre-Unit Check Assessments | Each unit begins with an assessment designed to identify the student skills that will be particularly relevant to the upcoming unit. | Not included | Included |
Sub-Unit Checklists (Grades K–1) | These checklists enable teachers to observe key skills and concepts that cannot be assessed on a pencil-and-paper assessment. The checklists outline the supports students need to access grade-level math skills and concepts. | Not included | Included |
End-of-Unit Assessments | 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. | Not included | Included |
Show What You Know | 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 the time students take to complete it while maximizing the insight the teacher receives on a daily basis to attend to student needs during the following class. | Included for Try It lessons | Included |
Teacher Dashboard | The powerful Teacher Dashboard helps teachers play an active role as discussion facilitators, monitoring student work in real time, choosing moments to share and discuss, and synthesizing learning.
Teachers get insight into student thinking in real time, meaning they can select student work to display and discuss quickly and easily, and ask better questions to guide more productive discussions. | Included | Included |
Reporting | Our unified reporting shows proficiency and growth by domain, cluster, standard, and priority concept using performance data from unit assessments, then highlights areas of potential student need to allow teachers to modify their instruction and target differentiated support. | Not included | Included |
Item Bank | Teachers can easily create practice and assessments with pre-made questions from our Item Bank. They can use filters and search for standards, summative-style items, and more. | Not included | Included |
Ability to Copy and Edit Curriculum Lessons | Copy, edit, and customize lessons and activities. Everything from deleting screens to condense a lesson to personalizing with your own teaching notes. | Not included | Included |
Boost Personalized Learning and Intervention (Grades K–8) | Boost Personalized Learning activities help students access grade-level math through engaging, independent digital practice. Responsive Feedback adjusts to students' work, providing item-level adaptivity to further support their learning. | Sample personalized learning and Mini-Lessons included for select Try It lessons | Included |
Professional Development | Amplify’s professional development team supports both teachers and administrators throughout their entire implementation journey.
Professional development is flexible for on-site or remote. | Not included | Included |