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Discovering and exploring mathematics in every story Learn more about mathematizing children’s literature and how students can approach stories with a math lens.

Approaching stories with a math lens helps students see mathematical concepts hiding in some their favorite books.

New on the blog, we'll explore the process of a math read-aloud, and even share a few options to get you started

🔍 Read more: go.amplify.com/43DXhDb.

🎶 Watch as this 2025 Polypad Art and Music Contest winner turns math into rhythmic beats!

Thanks for sharing your talents with us, Ting Sum Samson Lau!

🔍 Try it out: polypad.amplify.com/p.

#MTBoS #ITeachMath

💪 Subtraction made simple.

Number tiles help students to build place-value understanding and fluency.

✨ Try it out: fluency.amplify.com.

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New feature: You can now assign Polypad creations directly to your students 📣

Polypad's "Assign" button automatically creates an Amplify Classroom activity and lets you invite your students. No more manual workarounds.

✨ Try it now: polypad.amplify.com/p.

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👩‍🍳 Would you trust your students to bake the Thanksgiving turkey?

In Amplify Classroom’s “Turkey Toaster” activity, grades 6–8 students explore thermal energy transfer, no oven required!

🦃 Give it a try: at.amplify.com/43i44SS.

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Whether it’s sharing supplies, giving encouragement, or just a smile across the room—kindness counts. 🧡

Happy World Kindness Day! 🌎

🎨 Math becomes art in Polypad!

Meet one of our Polypad Art and Music Contest winners, Amber Nain, who used custom polygons to design a statue-inspired masterpiece.

🔍 Try it out: at.amplify.com/45KafPY.

Amplify Classroom | Professional learning webinars Discover how to implement interactive lessons and tools for math, literacy, and science with our upcoming free Amplify Classroom webinars.

🎨 Building custom lessons just got easier!

Join our free Intro to Activity Building webinar on Nov. 18 at 6:30 p.m. ET and learn how to design, customize, and create with confidence.

✨ Register for free: at.amplify.com/4hNAtXx.

🧮 Subtraction made visual!

Number bars help students see how numbers relate, count with confidence, and understand place value.

✨ Try it out: fluency.amplify.com.

💡 Growth, change, and a little bit of mystery.

In this Algebra 1 activity, students uncover whether patterns are linear, exponential, or something else entirely.

Try it out: at.amplify.com/43ICsX0.

🎉 Friday feature update: We've added an undo button to Sketch Everywhere. ↩️

Now you can easily correct your screen annotations without starting over.

Try Sketch Everywhere in Amplify Labs: at.amplify.com/3LMAoHj.

🎶 2025 Polypad Contest winner Virginia Carmona used fraction bars to prove math can sound as amazing as it looks.

🔍 Give it a try: polypad.amplify.com/p.

#MTBoS #ITeachMath

Amplify Classroom | Professional learning webinars Discover how to implement interactive lessons and tools for math, literacy, and science with our upcoming free Amplify Classroom webinars.

We have two free webinars for you!

💻 Nov 5: Polypad Virtual Manipulatives—learn how to model math concepts and get a sneak peek at our new letter tiles.

🧩 Nov 6: Activity Building—create engaging, custom lessons using our free Activity Builder tool.

Save your seat: at.amplify.com/4hvD4oN.

Graphic for a free 2025 math webinar series by Amplify, featuring dates for upcoming sessions and images of four speakers.

💡 Math teachers, this one's for you!

Learn from leading math experts Dan Meyer, Oscar Perales, Shira Helft, and James Oliver as they share their favorite takeaways from 2025 math conferences.

💻 Save your seat: at.amplify.com/4oBt8MA

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🧮 Build fluency with number bars!

Students can see math facts come together as number bars model addition and help strengthen understanding.

✨ Try it out: fluency.amplify.com.

Hey #mtbos #ITeachMath friends - @jedediyah.com and I will be hosting a free, @amplifyeducation.bsky.social webinar this Thursday evening on the basics of building an Amplify Classroom activity. We would love for you to join us! Here's the sign up link: amplify.com/event/intro-...

🍫 Sweet news: we have another free Amplify Classroom activity for you.

"Candy Count" is an activity that builds estimation and prediction skills. 🧠⚡️

🍬 Give it a try: at.amplify.com/4o5NDBq.

🎶 Meet Florind Chili—one of our 2025 Polypad Art & Music Contest winners!

Using fraction bars, Florind turned math into melody and creativity into sound. 🎨✨

🔍 See what you can create: polypad.amplify.com/p.

#MTBoS #ITeachMath

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💼 Join our team!

We're looking for people of all experience levels who are passionate about making high-quality education accessible to students.

🧡 View the full list of opportunities: amplify.com/careers.

Today STEP at Mercy University got to create some pumpkin art via @amplifyeducation.bsky.social Classroom #MathPlay 🧮🎃

#ITeachMath #MTBoS #EduSky #MathSky #MathsToday #EdChat #EdTech #MathArt #Math

Interested in learning more about the FREE Polypad Virtual Manipulatives from @amplifyeducation.bsky.social? Sign up for the next Polypad webinar on Nov 5th at 7 PM ET. Even if you can’t make it, sign up to receive a link to the recording. tinyurl.com/5fb4m48z

🎃 Mess‑free creativity for the win.

Let students carve virtual pumpkins, share their designs, and spark classroom discussions.

👻 Try it here: at.amplify.com/43fPfA1.

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🌟 Meet Terri, an Amplify Ambassador and second grade department chair.

⬇️ Keep reading to discover the most rewarding part of her career.

📢 Meet one of our 2025 Polypad Art & Music Contest winners, Damon Contreras! 🎵

Damon created a song in Polypad using fraction bars—showing that math is more than numbers, it’s creativity in action. ✨

🔍 Try it out: polypad.amplify.com/p.

#MTBoS #ITeachMath

🎨 Decorate a fall pumpkin without the prep or mess!

In this free Amplify Classroom activity, students design unique pumpkins through interactive screens. Teachers can capture and share student creations, sparking discussions as students compare their work.

✨ Try it out: at.amplify.com/4o20WD2.

🎨 All the fun and exciting parts of a fall craft, without the mess!

In this free Amplify Classroom activity, students create autumn scenes featuring woodland picnics or Halloween adventures, then write short stories to expand their visual narratives.

🧡 Give it a try: at.amplify.com/4nNbiX1.

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📊 New data reveal more K–2 students began the year on track to read, but the pace of progress has stalled.

Good news: our data show that students who catch up during K–2 are likely to maintain their reading progress through third grade.

🔍 Read more in the report: https://t.co/uRbFYuY88z

📢 Shoutout to Will Robinson, a 2025 Polypad Art and Music Contest winner!

Using fraction bars, Will built a song in Polypad, proving math is music to our ears.

🔍 Explore Polypad: polypad.amplify.com.

#MTBoS #ITeachMath

🦇 In Amplify Classroom's "Batty Dilations," students create scaled copies of spooky bats! They'll learn not to "wing it," by discovering how helpful a grid can be for accurate scaling.

👀 Try it out: https://t.co/r47XoCvAcF

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Falling for sums. 🍂

Practice operations and equivalence with “Weighting for Fall” (grades 1–2), a free Amplify Classroom activity that gets students thinking and talking about comparison and weight.

🍁 Try it out: at.amplify.com/4nVRrVJ.

#ITeachMath #MTBoS