IM® K–5 Math v.360
A coherent elementary math curriculum designed to help students build number sense and mathematical confidence through collaborative, hands-on problem-solving.
Independently reviewed. Rated all-green.
IM Math v.360 holds all-green ratings from EdReports across every gateway for every grade band from kindergarten through high school.
As an independent nonprofit, EdReports evaluates instructional materials for alignment to standards and other indicators of quality, helping educators make informed curriculum decisions.
See how learning builds across IM K–5 Math v.360
IM K–5 Math v.360 provides a coherent progression across the elementary grades. Students begin with early number sense, shapes, place value, and addition and subtraction. From there, they move into multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, area, and volume, concepts they continue building on in middle school mathematics.
Kindergarten
Students represent and compare whole numbers, compose and decompose numbers, begin developing their understanding of addition and subtraction, and describe shapes and space.
Grade 1 work with operations, place value, measurement, and geometry.
Grade 1
Students build addition and subtraction strategies, work with numbers to 120, explore length measurement, represent data and time, and reason with shapes.
Grade 2 work with base-ten understanding, fluency, measurement, and equal groups.
Grade 2
Students deepen their understanding of place value, add and subtract within 1,000, measure length, work with data, time, and money, and begin reasoning about equal groups.
Grade 3 work with multiplication, division, area, scaled graphs, and fractions.
Grade 3
Students build their understanding of multiplication and division, arrays and area, and fractions, and learn to reason about data, measurement, and shapes.
Grade 4 work with multi-digit operations, fraction equivalence, and geometry.
Grade 4
Students build fluency with multi-digit multiplication, develop multi-digit division, deepen work with place value and fractions, and analyze measurement and geometric figures.
Grade 5 work with volume, decimal operations, fraction operations, and multi-digit multiplication and division.
Grade 5
Students work with place value, volume, decimal operations, fraction operations, multi-digit multiplication and division, coordinate grids, and properties of shapes.
Middle school work with ratios, expressions, equations, geometry, and data.
With IM K–5 Math, every single student can access grade-level math. Students don’t get pulled out for math anymore. They get to be part of the classroom because the curriculum is designed to invite all learners into the lesson.
Nancy Sirois
K–5 Math Coach, Gerald E. Talbot Community School, Portland, Maine
What makes IM Math different
In an IM classroom, learning starts with a meaningful problem. Students compare strategies, and teachers guide a synthesis that makes the key ideas explicit.
Coherent by design
Ideas build across lessons, units, grades, and courses. Curriculum, professional learning, and IM Certified partners all reinforce the same instructional model.
Grounded in decades of research
Built on research into how students learn mathematics, with embedded supports for English learners and students with disabilities.
Written by a lead writer of the standards
Created by mathematicians and educators, including Dr. Bill McCallum, a lead writer of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.
Designed for classrooms, not shareholders
Built by a nonprofit, so every decision about content and support strengthens student learning rather than satisfying investors.
Understanding and fluency, built together
IM Math is designed so conceptual understanding and procedural fluency develop together, each strengthening the other. Students learn why a method works as they learn to use it, building speed and accuracy through practice that’s woven into every unit.
Daily routines build fact fluency, and centers give students repeated, game-based opportunities to practice skills from the current unit as well as ideas from earlier units and grades. Distributed practice—returning to key skills over time instead of drilling them once—strengthens automaticity while freeing up working memory for harder problems.
Students develop fluency with whole-number addition and subtraction from kindergarten through grade 4, moving from sums within 5 to multi-digit numbers. From grade 3 through grade 5, they develop fluency with multiplication and division, moving from work within 100 to multi-digit numbers. In the last unit of each grade, students revisit the major work and fluency goals of the year.
That’s what coherence looks like in practice: students build understanding and fluency together, with the curriculum reinforcing both over time. The result is stronger, more durable learning.
THE TAKEAWAY
In IM K–5 Math, understanding and fluency are built to reinforce each other, and the results follow from that design.
Measurable results, by design
Districts implementing IM Math with aligned professional learning and support have shown real, measurable gains in math proficiency.
Math proficiency in grades 3–8 over three years, while the lowest-performing level nearly halved.
Higher average score on the Acadience Math Assessment (grades K–4), among 251 matched students using Imagine IM.
See IM K–5 Math v.360 in real classrooms
These are real IM Math lessons, filmed in real classrooms with real students and teachers, so you can see what problem-based instruction actually looks like from kindergarten through grade 5.
Kindergarten
A kindergarten class makes sense of a new math idea together through play and discussion.
Grade 5
Grade 5 students work through a problem together, comparing strategies and justifying their thinking.
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THE TEAM
Meet the IM K–5 Math v.360 authors
IM K–5 Math v.360 was developed by curriculum writers, classroom teachers, math educators, and instructional leaders with deep experience in elementary mathematics. The team includes Dr. Bill McCallum, a lead writer of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.
William G. McCallum
Cofounder and curriculum contributor
Kristin Umland
Cofounder and curriculum contributor
Kristin Gray
K–5 curriculum and professional learning lead
Alex Clayton
Kindergarten lead
Marni Greenstein
Grade K–3 lead
Sara Baranauskas
Grade 1 lead
Dionne Aminata
Grade 2–5 lead
Deborah Peart
Grade 2 lead
Zack Hill
Grade 3 lead
Kaneka Turner
Grade 4 lead
Sarah Caban
Grade 5 lead
Contributors
Enrique Acosta
Contributor
Jacqueline Bumler
Contributor
Cole Chase
Contributor
Patti Drawdy
Writer
Brianne Durst
Grade K–2 writer and coherence reviewer
Lynn Frankel
Editor
Writer
Melissa Hilty
Writer
Toka Hussein
Writer
Kailey Hyland
Contributor
Cherelle McKnight
Writer
Michael Nakamaye
Mathematician in residence
Lindy Olejniczak
Writer
Noelle Conforti Preszler
Grade K–5 writer, coherence reviewer, and managing editor
Liz Ramirez
Implementation and access supports
Gabriel Rosenberg
Contributor
Chepina Rumsey
Writer
Aaron Salley
Contributor
Jenna Sewell
Writer
Siavash Tehrani
Contributor
Yenche Tioanda
Grade 3–4 writer and coherence reviewer
Sonja Twedt
Contributor
Listed roles reflect contributions to the curriculum development process, not necessarily current titles or affiliations.
