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Welcome to the Amplify Desmos Math Grade 6–Algebra 2 Caregiver Hub. We’ve designed this space to help you support your student at every stage of their math journey. 

In class, your student engages with digital lessons using devices as well as write-in Student Edition books. They also may be assigned digital or print practice outside of class. Below, you’ll find some suggestions and resources for how you can support their learning at home.

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Caregiver Unit Resources

For every unit of the program, we’ve created a Caregiver Resource that provides a summary of each lesson, plus a problem to try with your student (and an answer key). These resources are available in both English and Spanish, as is a glossary of key terms.

Unit 1: Area and Surface Area

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1a — Calculating the Area of Parallelograms
  • Sub-Unit 1b — Calculating the Area of Triangles
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Determining the Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms

Unit 2: Introducing Ratios

Unit Refresh Videos

Unit 3: Rates and Percentages

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Unit 4: Dividing Fractions

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Dividing Fractions Using Tape Diagrams
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Dividing Fractions Using Common Denominators
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Determining the Volume of Prisms With Fractional Dimension

Unit 5: Decimal Arithmetic

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Adding and Subtracting Decimals
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Multiplying Decimals Using Area Models
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Dividing Decimals Using Fractions
  • Sub-Unit 4 — Converting Between Fractions, Percents, and Decimals

Unit 6: Expressions and Equations

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Writing and Solving Equations
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Writing Equivalent Expressions Using the Area Model
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Evaluating Expressions With Exponents
  • Sub-Unit 4 — Interpreting Graphs

Unit 7: Positive and Negative Numbers

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Ordering and Comparing Positive and Negative Numbers
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Identifying Solutions to Inequalities
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Plotting Points on the Coordinate Plane

Unit 8: Describing Data

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Creating Dot Plots
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Calculating Mean Absolute Deviation
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Interpreting Box Plots
  • Sub-Unit 4 — Predicting Population Using Sample Data (For use with Amplify Desmos Math New York)
  • Sub-Unit 5 — Predicting Sample Spaces Using Proportional Relationship (For use with Amplify Desmos Math New York)

Unit 1: Scale Drawings

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Using Ratios to Determine the Scale Factor Between Scaled Copies
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Using Ratios to Determine Unknown Scales in Scale Drawings

Unit 2: Introducing Proportional Relationships

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Determining the Constant of Proportionality
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Writing Equations for Proportional Relationships
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Comparing Proportional Relationships
  • Sub-Unit 4 — Representing Proportional Relationships With Multiple Representations

Unit 3: Measuring Circles

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Determining the Circumference of a Circle
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Calculating Areas of Complex Shapes

Unit 4: Proportional Relationships and Percentages

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Unit 5: Operations With Positive and Negative Numbers

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Adding and Subtracting Positive and Negative Numbers
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Dividing Integers
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Solving Real-World Problems Involving Positive and Negative Numbers

Unit 6: Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Writing Equations From Descriptions and Tape Diagrams
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Solving Equations With Positive and Negative Numbers
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Solving Inequalities

Unit 7: Angles, Triangles, and Prisms

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Determining Unknown Angle Measures
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Determining if Three Segments Form a Triangle
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Calculating the Surface Area of Prisms

Unit 8: Probability and Sampling

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Predicting Sample Spaces Using Proportional Relationships
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Predicting Population Using Sample Data

Unit 1: Rigid Transformations and Congruence

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Determining Coordinates After a Rotation
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Using Rigid Transformations to Determine if Two Figures on the Grid Are Congruent
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Determining Unknown Interior and Exterior Angles

Unit 2: Dilations, Similarity, and Slope

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Performing Dilations on a Square Grid
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Determining Missing Side Lengths in Similar Triangles
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Calculating Slope By Drawing Similar Triangles on a Coordinate Plane

Unit 3: Proportional and Linear Relationships

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Writing Equations to Represent Proportional Relationships
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Interpreting Slope and Intercepts of Linear Relationships
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Calculating Slope Given Two Points

Unit 4: Linear Equations and Linear Systems

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Solve Single-Variable Equations With Parentheses
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Solving Systems of Linear Equations by Graphing

Unit 5: Functions and Volume

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Justifying Whether a Graph Represents a Function
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Comparing Properties of Linear Functions
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Calculating Volumes of Cylinders

Unit 6: Associations in Data

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Interpreting Points on a Scatter Plot
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Using Lines of Fit to Make Predictions
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Calculating Missing Values in Two-Way Tables

Unit 7: Exponents and Scientific Notation

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Unit 8: The Pythagorean Theorem and Irrational Numbers

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Approximating Square Roots
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Calculating Unknown Side Lengths
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Identifying Rational and Irrational Numbers

Unit 1: Area and Surface Area

Unit 2: Introducing Ratios and Rates

Unit 3: Fractions and Decimals

Unit 4: Expressions and Equations

Unit 5: Proportional Relationships

Unit 6: Percentages

Unit 7: Positive and Negative Numbers

Unit 8: Data Sets and Distributions

Course Glossary

Unit 1: Rigid Transformations and Congruence

Unit 2: Scale Drawings, Dilations, and Similarity

Unit 3: Equations and Inequalities

Unit 4: Linear Relationships and Systems of Linear Equations

Unit 5: Functions

Unit 6: Associations in Data

Unit 7: Volume and Surface Area

Unit 8: Exponents and Scientific Notation

Unit 9: Pythagorean Theorem and Irrational Numbers

Course Glossary

Unit 1: Patterns and Sequences

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Determining if a Sequence Is Arithmetic, Geometric, or Neither
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Using Visual Patterns or Terms in the Sequence to Write Explicit Expressions for Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences

Unit 2: Linear Equations and Inequalities

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Solving Linear Equations
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Solving Multi-Variable Linear Equations
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Graphing Solutions of Two-Variable Linear Inequalities

Unit 3: Describing Data

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Calculating Values in Two-Way and Relative Frequency Tables
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Comparing Data Using Mean and Standard Deviation
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Interpreting Slope and y-Intercept in Context

Unit 4: Describing Functions

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Evaluating Function Notation
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Writing Domain and Range With Inequalities
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Graphing Piecewise-Defined Functions
  • Sub-Unit 4 — Writing Recursive Definitions in Function Notation

Unit 5: Systems of Linear Equations and Inequalities

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Solving Systems of Linear Equations by Substitution
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Graphing Solutions to Systems of Inequalities

Unit 6: Exponential Functions

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Writing Exponential Functions From Graphs
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Calculating Percent Change in Exponential Functions
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Writing Equivalent Expressions Using Radicals and Rational Exponents
  • Sub-Unit 4 — Writing Exponential Functions Involving Compound Interest

Unit 7: Quadratic Functions

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Describing Key Features of Parabolas
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Graphing Quadratic Functions in Factored Form
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Writing Quadratic Functions in Vertex Form

Unit 8: Quadratic Equations

Unit Refresh Videos

  • Sub-Unit 1 — Rewriting Factored-Form Expressions in Standard Form
  • Sub-Unit 2 — Solving Quadratic Equations by Graphing
  • Sub-Unit 3 — Solving Quadratic Equations by Completing the Square
  • Sub-Unit 4 — Solving Quadratic Equations Using the Quadratic Formula

Unit 1: Constructions and Rigid Transformations

  • Caregiver Support Resource — English

Unit 2: Congruence

  • Caregiver Support Resource — English

Unit 3: Similarity

  • Caregiver Support Resource — English

Unit 4: Similarity in Right Triangles

  • Caregiver Support Resource — English

Unit 5: Coordinate Geometry

  • Caregiver Support Resource — English

Unit 6: Circles

  • Caregiver Support Resource — English

Unit 7: Solid Geometry

  • Caregiver Support Resource — English

Unit 1: Transformations of Functions

  • Caregiver Support Resource — English

Unit 2: Quadratic Functions and Complex Numbers

  • Caregiver Support Resource — English

Unit 3: Polynomial Functions

  • Caregiver Support Resource — English

Unit 4: Rational Functions

  • Caregiver Support Resource — English

Unit 5: Root Functions and Radical Equations

  • Caregiver Support Resource — English

Unit 6: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions

  • Caregiver Support Resource — English

Unit 7: Trigonometric Functions

  • Caregiver Support Resource — English

Unit 8: Statistical Inference

  • Caregiver Support Resource — English

Access Amplify Desmos Math at home.

Your student will have access to all learning, practice, and assessment materials through the Amplify platform. Students can access the digital curriculum in school and at home by following these simple instructions.

  • Select the Amplify Desmos Math button.
  • Select Log in with Amplify.
  • Enter the username and password provided by your student’s teacher.
  • Select the desired grade level.

Once logged in, you and your student can view work by opening previous assignments.

Learn how to navigate the student home page.

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Support math learning at home.

You can support your student’s math learning outside of school in many ways:

Relate math to daily activities at home, whether you’re baking, grocery shopping, or planning a trip. Your student can help you calculate the prices when you use a coupon, figure out how to cut a recipe in half, or determine the amount of gas you’ll need to make it to your destination.

Invite your student to walk you through how they solved each problem or talk about any parts that were challenging for them. To encourage the use of math language, consider asking, “How do you know?,” “How can you show your thinking?,” or “How would you describe that?” If students get stuck, consider asking questions like, “What information do you know here?” or “How could you represent this problem?”

Remind your student that getting stuck is part of the process and a necessary—beneficial, even!—part of learning. Many students (and adults) fear making mistakes. But research shows that making mistakes helps our brains grow. When your student gets stuck on a problem, encourage them to keep trying different strategies, even if they’re not sure they’re right.

We hope your student enjoys exploring math, working with friends to solve problems, and learning new and interesting concepts. And we hope you enjoy this exciting math journey with them!

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