Uncover student thinking with a complete K–8 math assessment system.
Expect more from your assessments with mCLASS® Math, a complete K–8 benchmark and progress monitoring assessment system that shows how students performed, reveals their math thinking, and provides teachers with recommendations to drive grade-level success.
Use actionable data to drive targeted instructional support for every learner.
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mCLASS Math turns assessment results into clear next steps for differentiation and intervention, all aligned with your core math program and MTSS framework.
mCLASS Math is now available for grades K–8 in the 2026–27 school year.
Our approach
mCLASS Math goes beyond right and wrong answers with assessments that reveal the why behind student thinking, turning every interaction into actionable instruction.
Research-backed and efficient
mCLASS Math assessments provide valid, reliable measures of student proficiency and thinking, offering clear insight into growth and performance against grade-level expectations.
Developed by a team of researchers, mCLASS Math has undergone rigorous psychometric validity studies and is backed by the latest iteration of curriculum-based measurement tools and a state-of-the-art approach for efficiently assessing students’ mathematical thinking.
Asset-based assessments
Traditional assessments focus only on right or wrong answers. mCLASS Math goes deeper, revealing how students think about grade-level math and what they already understand.
This asset-based approach recognizes that every student has their own ways of thinking. Their individual strengths, experiences, understandings, and strategies—or assets, as we collectively refer to them—inform the robust data that powers mCLASS Math. By focusing on what students already know and where they need support, teachers can confidently build on each target area for growth and accelerate grade-level learning with confidence.
From data to action
mCLASS Math translates each student’s assessment results into clear, actionable next steps, empowering teachers to provide timely scaffolds and targeted instruction where they’re needed most. Integrated insights align with most core math program and MTSS framework, making it easy to differentiate and support every learner with confidence.
What’s included
The comprehensive benchmarking and progress monitoring resources in mCLASS Math support effective, differentiated math instruction for every learner.
mCLASS Math Benchmark assessments
Digitally administered to the whole class three times a year (beginning, middle and end of the year) with math diagnostic and screening abilities, these assessments help:
- Measure growth against grade-level expectations.
- Provide real-time visibility into student work and responses.
- Identify strengths and areas for Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions.
- Flag potential risk of dyscalculia for early support.
mCLASS Math Progress Monitoring
Quick, targeted assessments administered between benchmarks to help:
- Track student performance in specific skills and concepts over time.
- Inform instructional adjustments with in-the-moment recommendations.
- Ensure interventions are effective to keep students on track.
Instructional supports for Tiers 1–3
Support, Strengthen, and Stretch model: Flexible framework for effective differentiation and intervention
- Mini-Lessons: 15-minute teacher-led interventions to build grade-level proficiency in small groups
- Centers: collaborative, hands-on activities for concept reinforcement (grades K–5)
- Math Personalized Learning: 15-minute, independent digital activities with feedback that adjusts to individual student thinking (Note: full collection requires a purchase of Boost Math.)
- Fluency Practice: adaptive digital practice to build number sense and procedural fluency
- Item Bank: customizable practice and assessments filtered by standards and skills
- Extensions: student-choice activities to challenge and extend learning
One integrated math solution
Amplify Desmos Math, Amplify’s cohesive math suite, seamlessly aligns with mCLASS Math to help teachers capitalize on strengths, foster deep investment, and build agency for all students.
Everything is in one place: screening and progress monitoring, core instruction, integrated personalized learning, and embedded intervention teachers can trust.
Maximize assessment impact with mCLASS PD.
Amplify offers focused professional development (PD) to help educators leverage mCLASS Math data effectively. Gain strategies to enhance instruction, drive student success, and fully utilize assessment insights.
Why choose mCLASS Math
mCLASS Math stands apart from traditional math assessments with its research-backed, asset-based approach that reveals student thinking and drives targeted instruction for grade-level success.
mCLASS Math
- Asset-based assessment. Reveals what students know and how they think through the Student Response Analysis engine
- Research-backed validity. Provides empirically established cut scores with third-party research validation and rigorous psychometric studies
- Student Thinking Report. Analyzes patterns in mathematical reasoning and provides actionable next steps. Efficient and comprehensive approach
- Delivers complete K–8 system: 30–40 minute benchmarks, 10–15 minute progress monitoring forms with immediate and actionable reporting
- Integrated instructional support. Connects directly to core math programs with aligned Mini-Lessons, Centers, and differentiation resources
- Grade-level focus. Maintains focus on grade-level expectations while building foundational skills through targeted intervention
- Complete MTSS solution. Seamlessly integrates screening, progress monitoring, and intervention within a unified MTSS framework
Other programs
- Focus only on right or wrong answers without insight into mathematical thinking
- Lack verified or rigorous research on predictive validity and reliability
- Deliver basic score reports without insight into problem-solving strategies or misconceptions
- Rely on lengthy assessments or fragmented tools that don’t provide a complete picture of student understanding
- Provide scores without clear instructional recommendations or curriculum alignment
- Pull students back to below-grade content, slowing progress toward grade-level proficiency
- Require multiple separate tools without cohesive data flow or instructional alignment
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Frequently asked questions about mCLASS Math
Get answers to common questions about implementing mCLASS Math in your school and understanding our asset-based assessment approach.
mCLASS Math is a research-based, digital K–8 assessment and reporting system that combines benchmark screening and progress monitoring to measure proficiency against grade-level expectations. As a groundbreaking asset-based assessment system, it provides educators with deeper insight into students’ mathematical thinking and understanding.
mCLASS Math uses an asset-based approach to assess both what students know and how they think. Unlike traditional assessments focusing on correct answers, mCLASS Math uses open-response items and a Student Response Analysis engine to uncover students’ mathematical thinking, strategies, and strengths for actionable instruction.
mCLASS Math uses an asset-based approach to assess both what students know and how they think. Unlike traditional assessments focusing on correct answers, mCLASS Math uses open-response items and a Student Response Analysis engine to uncover students’ mathematical thinking, strategies, and strengths for actionable instruction.
mCLASS Math is available now in English for grades K–5; grades 6–8 will be fully available July 1, 2026. Spanish for grades K–5 will launch in the 2026–27 school year, followed by grades 6–8 in the 2027–28 school year. Spanish is included in the mCLASS Math license at no additional cost.
Benchmark assessments take about 30–40 minutes for a whole class, and progress monitoring takes about 10–15 minutes for a small group. mCLASS Math is fully digital, designed for efficiency while maximizing instructional insights through empirically established cut scores and comprehensive reporting.
The Student Thinking Report translates student responses into actionable insights about how students approach mathematical problems. Unlike traditional reports focusing on scores, it analyzes patterns in student work to highlight common strategies, strengths, and growth areas for targeted instructional planning.
mCLASS Math serves as a universal screener using benchmark assessments to identify students needing Tier 2 or Tier 3 support through empirically established cut scores. Progress monitoring assessments track intervention effectiveness, while instructional resources provide targeted support aligned to grade-level expectations and core instruction.
mCLASS Math provides instructional resources aligned to major core math programs including Amplify Desmos Math, enVision Mathematics, Eureka Math², Illustrative Mathematics, Into Math, i-Ready Classroom Mathematics, and Reveal Math. Assessment results generate recommendations that connect directly to your daily math lessons.
mCLASS Math supports enlarged student screens, colored overlays, assistive technology, quiet testing settings, and scratch paper. Auto read-aloud is available for K–1 with optional supports in upper grades. All materials are available through NIMAC for audio, braille, and large print formats.