Kids create some incredible things when working together, and letting your students collaborate on their student islands is a fantastic way to increase engagement, motivation and encourage peer learning.
When you enable friends in Polymath, students can visit each other's Polymath islands, build, and practice maths together.
You can turn this on 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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Polymath Friends is in Beta for classrooms, so only some classrooms have access to it. If you’d like to try Friends in your classroom please contact us and we can enable it for you.
Please note that beta features are in testing, and may be a little bit more error-prone or clunky compared to generally available features. If you have any feedback on this feature please send it to [email protected]
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Enabling friends in Polymath allows students to work together on their student islands. They can: