Getting Started with InsightMath: Digital Planning Guide

Welcome to InsightMath!

As you begin teaching with InsightMath, you'll want to be aware of three main resources to support you on your journey:

InsightMath Help: Congratulations! You made it here on your own. Search this site for articles, resources, and tips to help you get the most out of InsightMath.
Digital Planning Guide: Your go-to resource for planning and launching lessons. More on this below.
Teaching Guide: A printed guide for every unit to have at your fingertips while moving around your classroom and working with students. If you want to learn more about the Teacher Materials, including the printed Teaching Guide, you can find that here!

The best way to get started with InsightMath is to jump right in.
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Contents:

Get Started

Unit Structure and Navigation

Cluster Structure and Navigation

Lesson Structure and Navigation

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Get Started
Step 1 - Select a Grade Select a tile to open a grade of your choice.
Step 2 - Open a Unit Click on a unit heading to begin your exploration.
Unit Structure and Navigation
Each unit begins with a big idea, followed by an investigation, and essential understandings grouped into clusters that build to the big idea. Each unit details mathematical coherence and progressions, standards alignment, strategies for supporting students, lesson resources, and assessment opportunities.
Step 1 - Preview a unit From the At a Glance tab, scroll down to view the unit’s big idea, investigation, clusters, and lessons.
Step 2 - View unit Details Click the tabs across the top to navigate to the math, standards, support strategies, resources, and assessments for the unit. Some tabs contain subtabs to support navigation of standard or assessment types. On the Resources tab, click the plus sign to see all resources of a given type.
Cluster Structure and Navigation
Unit clusters contain lessons that form a learning arc, which supports an essential understanding. Unique to the cluster level, educators are equipped to support students in building their schemas and working through disequilibrium moments, identify and respond to mathematical errors or misconceptions, and formatively assess throughout the lesson progression.
Step 1 -Open a cluster Click on a Cluster heading to begin your exploration.
Step 2 - Preview a Cluster From the At a Glance tab, scroll down to view the cluster’s essential understandings, outcomes, vocabulary, and lessons.
Step 3 - View cluster details Click the tabs across the top to navigate to the standards, support strategies, resources, and formative assessment opportunities. The Standards and Supporting Students tabs contain subtabs. Click these to view standards by type, note disequilibrium moments, or identify common errors and misconceptions within the cluster. On the Resources tab, click the plus sign to see all resources of a given type.
Lesson Structure and Navigation
Lessons promote student engagement and mathematical understanding through a blend of digital and hands-on activities. Utilizing visual models, structured problem-solving, and rich mathematical discussions, students develop strategic thinking and build confidence as mathematical learners. Each lesson follows a consistent structure made up of four parts: Launch, Explore, Reflect and Connect, and Workshop Time.
Step 1 - Open a lesson Click on a Lesson heading to begin your exploration.
Step 2 - Preview a lesson On the lesson page, scroll down to preview the lesson. Notice device needs, timing for each part, objectives, key questions, and vocabulary.
Step 3 - View lesson details Click the blue plus signs on the right side to expand sections and view preparation suggestions, standards, differentiation strategies, and a preview of the lesson slides. When a lesson part is expanded, use the Details, Look Fors, and Discourse Questions tabs to preview specific lesson guidance.
Next Step: Launch and navigate a lesson!