In the context of the continuous deepening of curriculum reform and the urgent need to improve the current situation of textbook evaluation, China has paid more and more attention to the quality evaluation of instructional materials. This study takes the U.S. Quality Instructional Materials Tool and the Chinese Compulsory Education Textbook Review Tool as comparative objects, and systematically compares the quality criteria of junior high school mathematics instructional materials from the perspectives of evaluation bases, contents, procedures and methods, with a view to shedding light and making reference to the construction of quality criteria of junior high school mathematics instructional materials in China.