We align to the math , not the manual.
Standards are shared expectations. Curricula are different paths to them. Whatever path your district chooses, or changes to, the foundations of high-quality math instruction don't move. Neither does Derivita.
First, a precise definition.
The word alignment gets tossed around in supplemental math. We mean two specific things by it, and we do both.
Alignment to standards.
What students must know and be able to do at each grade level. Common Core, state standards, NCTM principles, NCSM frameworks. The shared expectations of the field, regardless of which curriculum your district chose to reach them.
Alignment to curricula.
The sequence and approach of a specific HQIM — Illustrative Mathematics, Eureka Math, CPM, Big Ideas, Open Up Resources, or a scope and sequence your district built. The path a teacher follows through the year.
Derivita does both. We start from the standards, because the math underneath is what every curriculum is reaching for.
A standard is a floor.
Not a ceiling.
The word borrowed itself from track and field. In high jump, the standards are the two posts that hold up the bar. They define a height every athlete is expected to clear.
Educational standards work the same way. They name what every student should be able to do at the end of a year. A floor everyone reaches, not a ceiling that sorts students into who got over and who didn't.
That changes the design question. We're not building a system to sort students. We're building one to help every student clear the bar, and then reach further.
Curricula are paths.
The destination is shared.
Different paths. Different pedagogical emphasis. Different lesson structures. But all math curricula aim for the same destination: students who can reason mathematically, communicate their thinking, and apply what they know to problems they haven't seen before.
Derivita supplements the path without redirecting it. We extend practice, deepen feedback, and surface data, without asking teachers to leave their curriculum behind.
What doesn't change, regardless of which curriculum you've chosen.
Because Derivita targets the common, foundational principles of secondary math, your district can choose any curriculum, your teachers can bring any instructional approach, and Derivita will enhance instruction at every level.
- ✓High-quality questions that promote mathematical reasoning and enable authentic, open-ended assessment, not just single-answer or multiple choice
- ✓Millions of randomized variations that maintain mathematical intent, so students practice the concept — not the memorized answer
- ✓Automated feedback and grading powered by a CAS engine that recognizes equivalent forms, valid notation, and multiple correct approaches
- ✓Connected tools and data from independent practice to whole-class discourse — with insights that roll up automatically from classwork to teacher, PLC, school, and district level
- ✓All seamlessly embedded in your LMS so teachers stay in their existing workflow, students don't need a new login, and everything above lives inside the system they already use every day
Curriculum agnostic supplemental and assessment solution provides benefits at every level
School systems are complex. Curricula shift, buildings differ, teachers range from veterans to first-year, and students need different levels of support. Here's how Derivita holds up in all of it.
Switching curricula next year? We come with you.
The question library, the student data, the teacher workflows, none of it is tied to a specific curriculum. Your investment in Derivita carries forward regardless of which textbook you're teaching from next year.
Different schools chose different curricula? One platform serves both.
Different buildings can teach from different curricula while PLCs share data and district leaders see a single, coherent picture across all of them.
Veterans + first-year teachers, both supported.
Experienced teachers work the way they always have and Derivita stays out of their way. New and out-of-field teachers lean on dynamic worked solutions to understand the why behind each concept. Derivita strengthens both.
Same content. Different teacher decisions.
Derivita doesn't prescribe. Teachers diagnose what each student needs: intervention, extension, reteach, peer support. The platform delivers the content and data; the teacher makes the call.
Our model is to strengthen teachers. Not replace them.
The 13 percentile point gains in our ESSA Level III study weren't achieved through a prescribed model or a required dosage. Teachers kept their own approaches. PLCs kept their own rhythms. District leaders kept their own frameworks. They simply wove Derivita into the instruction they were already leading. And the results followed.
Most math platforms take one of two approaches. Adaptive platforms make the instructional decisions for teachers — sorting students into individualized streams, routing struggling ones to remediation, and quietly holding them there. The algorithm decides. Others require strict fidelity to a prescribed model; the gains they claim are contingent on teachers and leaders abandoning their existing approaches and following the platform's.
We made a different choice. Give teachers a foundation of high-quality questions, scale the feedback and grading of open-ended work, and surface real-time data that's actually actionable.
Teachers make their own instructional decisions: keeping grade-level work in front of every student, using group dynamics rather than isolating struggle, and responding to what the data actually shows rather than what an algorithm prescribes.
"A good teacher is flexible — they can diagnose. Curricula are linear. The platform's success comes from supporting that flexibility, and the need for both procedural fluency and conceptual understanding."
The research and evidence supporting our approach.
The theoretical foundation behind Derivita's design, with an interactive district impact calculator.
Read more →Third-party research across 17 classrooms with different teachers, different approaches, and one result.
Read more →Our full evidence library for district leaders making adoption decisions.
Read more →Better outcomes,
regardless of the path.
Bring Derivita to your district committee. We'll bring the results — and we'll enhance whatever curriculum you've already chosen.