Kids create some incredible things when working together, and encouraging your students to collaborate on their student islands is a fantastic way to increase engagement, motivation and encourage peer learning.

When students play with friends in Polymath, they can visit each other's Polymath islands, build, and practice maths together.

Toggling Friends ‘On’ and ‘Off’

Polymath Friends is on by default for new classrooms, but you can edit this setting to suit your lesson plan, You can turn Polymath Friends on and off under Settings in your teacher account:

Or from the control panel in your classroom island:

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You can turn Polymath Friends on and off at any time to suit your lesson plan. Students will retain their friends lists when this is turned back, allowing them to seamlessly resume playing with their friends.

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What does it mean to play with friends on Polymath?

Enabling friends in Polymath allows students to work together on their student islands. They can:

• Build collaboratively
• Share/gift resources
• Problem solve together
• Share the results of their hard work with one-another

Every child in your classroom can control:

• Who they add as a friend (both students must accept the friendship)
• What their friends can do on their island (just look vs. build with them)