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The books

Eight books. Four bands. One pathway.

Every band has a student book and a teacher edition. The teacher edition contains the complete student text, plus a teacher panel after every chapter, the diagnostic pre-check, a standards summary and the accuracy policy. The full books are not posted online. Teachers can request a review copy of any edition. Click any cover to enlarge it.

Book 1 of 4 · Elementary

Quantum Explorers

Grades 4 and 5 · 10 modules · 8–12 classroom hours
Curriculum details
Quantum Explorers, Student Book, Grades 4 and 5, front cover: two sets of ripples overlap below the title, with tiles marked 0, 1 and a question mark floating above them
Student Book

Quantum Explorers

Yigedeb Abay, PhD

  • Big question: What is the smallest piece of information in the universe?

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Quantum Explorers, Teacher Edition, Grades 4 and 5, front cover: the student design with an indigo band and an orange Teacher Edition flash, plus a panel listing what the edition adds
Teacher Edition

Quantum Explorers

Yigedeb Abay, PhD

  • Minute-by-minute lesson plans, answer keys that explain why, misconception scripts
  • Safety and materials notes, differentiation, source attribution for every chapter

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Contents: 10 modules
  1. E-QC-01Bits: How Computers Make Choices
  2. E-QC-02Waves and Patterns
  3. E-QC-03The Quantum World
  4. E-QC-04Only Certain Steps
  5. E-QC-05Meet the Qubit
  6. E-QC-06Measurement and Probability
  7. E-QC-07Quantum Gates: Changing a State on Purpose
  8. E-QC-08Entangled Pairs
  9. E-QC-09Secret Quantum Messages
  10. E-QC-10Build a Quantum Story
Book 2 of 4 · Middle School

Quantum Investigators

Grades 6, 7 and 8 · 12 modules · 60–75 minutes each
Curriculum details
Quantum Investigators, Student Book, Grades 6 to 8, front cover
Student Book

Quantum Investigators

Yigedeb Abay, PhD

  • Students use |0⟩, |1⟩, real amplitudes and 1/√2; no matrices required

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Quantum Investigators, Teacher Edition, Grades 6 to 8, front cover
Teacher Edition

Quantum Investigators

Yigedeb Abay, PhD

  • Lesson plans, answer keys, misconception scripts, simulator setup notes
  • Diagnostic pre-check, standards summary and accuracy policy

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Contents: 12 modules
  1. M-QC-01Binary and Information
  2. M-QC-02Waves, Interference, and Probability
  3. M-QC-03Quantization and Energy Levels
  4. M-QC-04Spin and Stern–Gerlach
  5. M-QC-05Qubits and Ket Notation
  6. M-QC-06Measurement
  7. M-QC-07Bloch Sphere Intuition
  8. M-QC-08X, Z, and H Gates
  9. M-QC-09Two Qubits and CNOT
  10. M-QC-10Entanglement and Bell Pairs
  11. M-QC-11Quantum Cryptography
  12. M-QC-12Quantum Challenge Project
Book 3 of 4 · High School I

Quantum Foundations

Grades 9 and 10 · 8 modules · 75–90 minutes each
Curriculum details
Quantum Foundations, Student Book, Grades 9 and 10, front cover
Student Book

Quantum Foundations

Yigedeb Abay, PhD

  • Complex numbers, vectors in ℂ², normalization, the Born rule and the Bloch sphere

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Quantum Foundations, Teacher Edition, Grades 9 and 10, front cover
Teacher Edition

Quantum Foundations

Yigedeb Abay, PhD

  • Full solutions to every derivation and problem set
  • Pacing for block and traditional schedules, lab setup, source attribution

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Contents: 8 modules
  1. H-QC-01Classical Information and Binary
  2. H-QC-02Math Toolkit I: Vectors and Matrices
  3. H-QC-03Math Toolkit II: Complex Numbers and Phase
  4. H-QC-04Wave-Particle Duality and Probability Amplitude
  5. H-QC-05Quantization
  6. H-QC-06Spin and Measurement
  7. H-QC-07Qubits: The State Vector, Exactly
  8. H-QC-08The Bloch Sphere and Changing Basis
Book 4 of 4 · High School II

Quantum Computing and Algorithms

Grades 11 and 12 · 12 modules · 75–90 minutes each
Curriculum details
Quantum Computing and Algorithms, Student Book, Grades 11 and 12, front cover: a two-qubit Bell circuit beside a panel giving the Bell state and the unitarity condition
Student Book

Quantum Computing and Algorithms

Yigedeb Abay, PhD

  • Tensor products, entanglement, unitarity, Deutsch–Jozsa, Grover, Shor, QKD and error correction

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Quantum Computing and Algorithms, Teacher Edition, Grades 11 and 12, front cover
Teacher Edition

Quantum Computing and Algorithms

Yigedeb Abay, PhD

  • Complete proofs and solutions, capstone rubric, coding and simulation lab notes
  • Cybersecurity context: QKD versus post-quantum cryptography, clearly separated

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Contents: 12 modules, in teaching order
  1. H-QC-09Inner and Outer Products
  2. H-QC-10Multi-Qubit States
  3. H-QC-11Entanglement
  4. H-QC-12Quantum Gates I: Unitarity
  5. H-QC-13Quantum Gates II: Circuits and No-Cloning
  6. H-QC-17Quantum Algorithms I: Deutsch–Jozsa
  7. H-QC-18Grover Search
  8. H-QC-19Shor and the Cryptographic Stakes
  9. H-QC-14Quantum Communication and QKD
  10. H-QC-15Quantum Computing and Cybersecurity
  11. H-QC-20Noise, Decoherence and Error Correction
  12. H-QC-16Capstone
Review copies. The complete books are not available for download. Teachers can request a review copy of any student book or teacher edition by emailing info@mqc.academy; name the band and the edition you want. Covers are full color, and interiors print acceptably in grayscale because every figure distinguishes 0 from 1 by shape and hatching as well as by color.