What Is Kiddom IM® v.360? A Guide to Illustrative Mathematics on Kiddom

See how Kiddom turns Illustrative Mathematics into a connected experience for planning, teaching, assessing, and responding to student learning.
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August 21, 2026

Kiddom IM v.360 brings Illustrative Mathematics®’ problem-based curriculum together with Kiddom’s tools for planning, instruction, and assessment in one connected system. It gives K–12 math teachers and district curriculum leaders a complete instructional experience for implementing Illustrative Mathematics as their core math program.

Who It's For

Kiddom IM v.360 serves math classrooms across grades K-12. The curriculum is built to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, with K-8 courses and two high school pathways. State-aligned editions are available for states that do not follow Common Core standards.

Kiddom IM is IM Certified® and has earned all-green EdReports "Meets Expectations" ratings for K-8. The tools around the curriculum are built to remove friction rather than replace judgment: a teacher adapts pacing, chooses which student groupings to act on, and decides how to respond to what a Cool-Down reveals.

How Kiddom IM v.360 Works

Illustrative Mathematics authors the curriculum: a problem-based approach that helps students make sense of math, explain their thinking, and build lasting understanding through problems, discussion, and reasoning. Kiddom connects that curriculum with the tools teachers need to plan, instruct, and assess, keeping all three aligned in one place.

Students spend the first minutes of class puzzling over a real problem rather than copying a formula off the board. A kindergartner explores connecting cubes before a single addition sign ever appears. A sixth grader tiles a plane to discover what area means, before the formula ever gets a name. Algebra 1 opens with statistics, not equations, as students collect and graph data about their own class.

From there, lessons move through a consistent rhythm:

  1. Warm-up
  2. Activities
  3. Synthesis
  4. Cool-down
  5. Practice

Each lesson connects the standards students are addressing with the prior learning they're building on. The curriculum itself is organized in layers: a course contains units, units contain sections, and sections contain individual lessons.

In Kiddom IM v.360: 6th Grade, for instance, Unit 1: Area and Surface Area contains Section A: Reasoning to Find Area, which contains Lesson 1: Tiling the Plane. That structure holds across grade bands, giving teachers and leaders a predictable way to move through content.

Across the curriculum, students build conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and mathematical reasoning. Each is developed through problems, discussion, and reasoning rather than treated as a separate strand.

Print and Digital

Districts can teach with a mix of digital, print, and hands-on materials.

  • Digital: every lesson, unit, and standard mapped inside one browser tab.
  • Print: student workbooks and teacher guides in English and Spanish.
  • Kits: hands-on manipulatives across all grades, with center kits for K-5 and a digital match for every physical piece.

Planning, Instruction, and Assessment

Kiddom brings the IM curriculum into a coherent instructional system that supports teachers in their daily workflows.

Faster Planning

Teachers can adapt pacing, create curriculum-grounded scaffolds and translations, shorten lessons, and make adjustments without losing the intent of the curriculum.

Flexible Delivery

During instruction, teachers can quickly project anonymized student work for discussion, pull curriculum-grounded practice problems in a click, switch to bilingual materials, and customize ready-to-project lesson presentations.

Editable Lesson Presentations let teachers reshape slides to fit their classroom, while Bilingual View puts a linked Spanish version of every lesson and activity one click away. Digital Math Tools & Tutorial Videos round out the toolkit with a course-level library of interactive tools and short how-to videos, ready before a lesson starts.

Smarter Assessment

Kiddom draws insights from handwritten and digital student work, automates scoring, offers feedback recommendations for open-ended responses, and turns formative data into next steps for the following lesson.

Auto-Scoring lets practice problems and assessments score themselves and roll straight into a gradebook organized by standard.

With Kiddom Assistant, teachers can ask a question about any lesson, standard, or student and get an answer inside the flow of teaching.

Atlas by Kiddom takes it a step further. It analyzes daily Cool-Downs to surface shared misconceptions, groups students by need, and prepares differentiated warm-ups for the next lesson, all right within the curriculum.

Layered Support

Teachers get real-time help right from their lesson plan, self-serve answers for questions that can't wait, and ongoing professional learning when they're ready to go deeper. Nothing here prescribes a single path, so a teacher new to the curriculum and one who has taught it for years can both find what they need.

Accessibility and Multilingual Support

Math Language Routines provide embedded support for multilingual learners throughout the curriculum, and Access for Students with Disabilities adds scaffolds and guidance within each lesson. Full Spanish parity means every lesson and activity has a linked Spanish version, and Read Aloud delivers natural-language question stems for K-5 in English and Spanish. Kiddom has audited the product against WCAG 2.1 AA and found zero unsupported criteria.

To learn more or request a demo, visit https://www.kiddom.co/digital-curriculum/kiddom-im.