For IM-style classrooms
AI Lesson Plans That Fit Your Illustrative Math Classroom
Need extra practice, a reteach day, or review that looks like what your students already know? Generate original, print-ready lessons with a warm-up, activities, lesson synthesis, and cool-down — using familiar routines and accurate tape diagrams, double number lines, and ratio tables.
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A problem-based curriculum gives you strong core lessons — but some students need another pass, some days need a reteach, and test season needs review. Finding extra material that matches the routines and models your class already uses takes time.
STEMEngine AI works alongside Illustrative Mathematics. Tell it your topic and curriculum, and it drafts a complete lesson in the same rhythm your students know — with brand-new problems — for you to edit and make your own.
How it works
Enter your topic
Type the skill you are teaching — equivalent ratios, unit rates, proportional relationships, expressions and equations — and your grade.
Add your curriculum
Type “Illustrative Mathematics” in the Curriculum field (or save it once in your profile). STEMEngine recognizes common spellings like “IM 360” or “Kendall Hunt Illustrative Math”.
Generate an IM-style lesson
Get a full lesson with routines, familiar representations, and original problems in minutes. Swap any problem or adjust difficulty.
Use it alongside your materials
Use it for extra practice, reteach days, intervention groups, or review — print-ready pages and answer keys included.
Feels familiar to your students
The lesson arc you already teach
Lessons follow a familiar flow — warm-up, one or more activities, lesson synthesis, and cool-down — so new material slots into your week without reshuffling routines.
Routines built in
Notice and Wonder, Which One Doesn’t Belong?, Number Talks, Think-Pair-Share, and Compare and Connect appear where they fit, with short notes on how to run them.
The representations students know
Double number lines, tape diagrams, ratio tables, hanger diagrams, and number lines are drawn accurately — so extra practice looks like the models your students already use.
Original problems, varied contexts
Every task is newly written — never copied from a published curriculum. Ratio and rate lessons rotate through recipes, paint mixtures, unit prices, and speed so practice never feels repetitive.
Support and challenge in one pass
Generate on-level, support, and extension versions together, with English-learner and IEP accommodations, for students who need more time or more stretch.
Ready to print or assign
Student pages, answer keys, and teacher notes arrive formatted. Edit anything, then print, export, or assign.
What each lesson includes
- Warm-up that activates the day’s prerequisite
- Activities built on familiar instructional routines
- Accurate tape diagrams, double number lines, and ratio tables
- Lesson synthesis prompts that connect strategies
- Cool-down check for understanding
- Support and extension versions
- Answer key with worked solutions
- Print-ready student pages
Frequently asked questions
Does STEMEngine work with Illustrative Mathematics?
STEMEngine works alongside Illustrative Mathematics. When you enter it as your curriculum, lessons are generated in an IM-style structure — warm-up, activities, lesson synthesis, and cool-down — using routines and representations IM teachers use every day. It is a planning tool for extra practice, reteaching, and review; it does not replace your adopted curriculum.
Does it copy Illustrative Mathematics lessons?
No. Every problem and context is originally written. STEMEngine does not reproduce published curriculum tasks, text, or images, and it does not invent unit or lesson numbers.
Is STEMEngine affiliated with Illustrative Mathematics?
No. STEMEngine is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Illustrative Mathematics, Kendall Hunt, or any curriculum publisher.
Which grades and topics does it cover?
Kindergarten through high school math — including ratios and rates, proportional relationships, percents, expressions and equations, geometry, statistics, and algebra. You choose the grade so the rigor fits your class.
Can it draw tape diagrams and double number lines?
Yes. Tape diagrams, double number lines, ratio tables, number lines, and graphs are drawn to scale inside the lesson, so the visuals match the models your students already know.
Is it free?
Creating an account is free, and you can generate lessons and browse the public library at no cost. Paid plans add higher generation limits, one-click printable and PDF exports, photo import, and assessment banks.
Illustrative Mathematics is a trademark of its respective owner. STEMEngine AI is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Illustrative Mathematics or any curriculum publisher. All generated content is original.
Generate your first IM-style lesson
Enter a topic, add “Illustrative Mathematics” as your curriculum, and get a print-ready lesson in minutes.
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