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Core math curriculum • Grades K–12

California math, built around the Big Ideas.

Every lesson starts with a problem worth solving, so students build understanding through reasoning, discussion, and discovery.

Kiddom IM® v.360 California is the curriculum and the platform.

One connected system for California Framework-aligned lessons, planning, assessment, and reporting.
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What sets the Kiddom experience apart

Faster Planning

Start with complete, California-aligned lesson plans, then adapt pacing, generate curriculum-grounded supports, and make adjustments without losing the mathematics behind the lesson

Flexible Delivery

Lead lessons from a single screen, project student work for discussion, switch between English and Spanish materials, and customize ready-to-use lesson presentations.

Smarter Assessment

Draw insights from handwritten and digital student work, streamline scoring and feedback, and turn today’s formative data into tomorrow’s instructional next steps.

Layered Support

Get real-time help inside the lesson plan, find answers through self-serve resources, and build confidence with ongoing professional learning.

A curriculum built for mathematical understanding

Kiddom IM® v.360 California engages students in making sense of meaningful problems, explaining their thinking, and connecting mathematical ideas across lessons and grade levels.

Conceptual understanding

Students explore mathematical ideas and make connections before relying on formulas and procedures.

Procedural fluency

Students build efficient, accurate strategies grounded in an understanding of why the math works.

Mathematical reasoning

Students solve problems, explain their thinking, compare approaches, and learn from the reasoning of others.

What a lesson looks like

Four real moments from Kindergarten through high school.

How Kiddom IM® v.360 California is organized

The same five-level structure repeats across courses, helping teachers see how each lesson connects to the larger mathematics.

Course

6th Grade

Unit

Unit 1: Area and Surface Area

Section

Section B: Polyhedra and Their Nets

Lesson

Lesson 12: What Is Surface Area?

Lesson cycle

Warm-up · Activities · Synthesis · Cool-down

Built for California

California Framework aligned

Designed for the California Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and the vision of the California Mathematics Framework.

Big Ideas connected

Units bring related standards together around the major mathematical ideas students build across grades.

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Drivers of Investigation

Students use mathematics to make sense of the world, predict what could happen, and impact the future.

Coherent K–12 pathways

Clear learning progressions connect early number sense to proportional reasoning, functions, statistics, algebra, and geometry, with accelerated middle school pathways available.

Teacher in action

Everything you need to teach Kiddom IM® v.360 California

Teach your way with connected digital, print, and hands-on materials.

Digital

Every lesson, presentation, activity, assessment, and standard lives inside Kiddom, ready to teach or assign.

Print

Teacher and Student Editions make it easy to teach and learn from the page or the screen.

Kits

Manipulative and centers kits put the materials for mathematical exploration directly in students’ hands.

Support is built directly into the curriculum.

Math Language Routines

Math Language Routines

Embedded support for multilingual learners.

Access for Students with Disabilities

Access for Students with Disabilities

Scaffolds and guidance within each lesson.

Full Spanish parity

Full Spanish parity

Every lesson and activity has a linked Spanish version.

Read Aloud

Read Aloud

Natural-language question stems for K–5 in English and Spanish.

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