IM® K-12 Math is rigorous.
The pacing is not forgiving.
IM K-12 Math moves fast, assumes prerequisite knowledge, and was designed for ideal conditions. Your classroom has 32 students at five different levels and a 42-minute period.
Almanack helps you adapt IM K-12 Math, the curriculum authored by Illustrative Mathematics, to fit your actual classroom — differentiating, pacing, and scaffolding — without abandoning the problem-based approach that makes it worth teaching.
The most common IM K-12 Math implementation problems — solved
From pacing nightmares to non-specialist teachers, Almanack addresses the real friction in IM K-12 Math classrooms.
The pacing is impossible to keep up with
Get a pacing audit for your actual schedule. See exactly which lessons to consolidate, which to split, and which warm-ups to cut without losing the mathematical goals.
Students don't have the prerequisite knowledge
Generate targeted warm-up sequences and bridging activities that build the prior knowledge a unit assumes — in language your students understand.
The non-specialist teacher in your department is drowning
Contextual content coaching that explains the math ideas in each lesson, common student misconceptions, and what to listen for during class discussions.
Students 2+ years below grade level can't access the problems
Differentiated versions of IM K-12 Math problems and activities at below-grade, on-level, and above-grade levels — all preserving the problem-based structure.
Assessments don't tell you what students actually know
Build diagnostic checkpoints and summative assessments that surface conceptual gaps, not just procedural errors.
Absent students fall behind immediately
Auto-generate catch-up packets for absent students: the core mathematical ideas, key problems, and synthesis activities they missed.
What Almanack does for IM K-12 Math teachers
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