By the IM Team And just like that, school is back in session! Whether you are implementing the IM curriculum for the first time or getting a fresh start as you experience year two or three, the beginning of the year is the time to establish norms that create the...
K–5 Math
The IM Experience—Let’s All Know, Use, and Enjoy Mathematics
Jul 31, 2023
By Dionne Aminata, IM Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives As a fully remote organization, the IM team gets a lot done working behind the screens. Now, with IM K–12 Math in full swing, many of us are stepping away from our computers and going OUTSIDE! We are booking...
Getting Ready for 2023–2024 Back to School: Building a Math Community
Jul 26, 2023
By the IM Team As summer winds down, we understand that you are not rushing toward the finish line of your summer break. Hopefully, there have been many lazy days, trips or adventures, and time spent with family and friends. Maybe you’ve enjoyed quiet time alone and...
Collaboration Rather Than Competition: Creating Collaborative Classrooms Through Illustrative Mathematics
Jun 23, 2023
By Eric Partridge, IM Certified® Facilitator I don’t have many memories from elementary school. The one memory I have from elementary math is from playing Around the World. The object of this game was to answer a multiplication fact faster than your opponent. The...
Enacting IM K–5 Math™ Lessons in a Grade 4 and 5 Special Education Class
Jun 6, 2023
By Jody Guarino, Math Coordinator and Suzanne Huerta, SDC Teacher What does it look like for everyone in a school to learn together? This question, posed by Elham Kazemi, pushes us to consider that we, adults and educators, can learn collaboratively with the students...
Beyond Curriculum Adoption: A Vision of the IM Classroom
Apr 11, 2023
By William McCallum, IM CEO Here at IM we are excited by and proud of the reception IM K–12 Math™ is getting. As more and more districts adopt it, we are thinking about how to support them. What are the next steps? Our vision of a classroom community informs this...
Co-Creating an Authentic Math Community
Feb 16, 2023
By Meredith Dadigan Abel, IM Certified® Facilitator It is magical to be in a classroom with a strong math community. In this classroom, the brilliance of all students prevails. Students and teachers share a unanimous belief that they’re all knowers and doers of math....
The Problem of “Fewer”: Using Centers and the 5 Practices to support students in their production of complex math vocabulary
Feb 9, 2023
By Margaret Betts, IM Certified® Facilitator If story problems are your teacher kryptonite, you aren’t alone. Story problems are mathematical situations expressed with words. The element of reading creates an added layer of complexity which in turn makes it more...
Centers in Kindergarten: Purposeful Play and Authentic Assessment
Jan 25, 2023
By Cheryl Fricchione, IMCF and Implementation Development Team Member A quick Google search for “kindergarten math centers” produces over 20 million results: everything from tips to make centers work to theme-based printables. It brings to mind a vignette about an...
Representations in the Story of Mathematics
Jan 11, 2023
By William McCallum, IM CEO co·her·ence noun the quality of being logical and consistent. the quality of forming a unified whole. One of the things I am proud of about IM K–12 Math™ is its coherence. This shows up in many ways: it follows a logical and pedagogically...
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