Awesome! You’ve created your class, added your students, and you want to play Polymath. This is a guide to help you get started with your class.
Before getting your students involved, it’s a good idea to understand what you’d like your students to do. Here are a few things that we find helpful to know first:
How they log in: Have an idea of how you’d like your students to log in to Polymath. For options and detailed instructions on how to do this, check out our Helping your students log in page.
Game play mode: Choose how you would like your students to play Polymath. You can find out more information on the different game mores here. If you’d like to restrict your students so that they can’t access both game modes, you can adjust this in your settings. You can read more about this here. You can change this back later if you’d like to!
Home play: Think about whether you’d like your students to play Polymath at home. This will affect how you configure your classroom settings and what game play modes you enable. You can read more about this here.
Make sure your class is ready to go when you are — ensure that they have devices that are connected to the internet and charged (if they don’t have personal access to chargers)
Polymath is fun, but like anything new with a class full of excited kids(!) the first game can be a little chaotic. We recommend organising to have a little more time than you need, and planning your first game for a lesson where a high-energy activity won’t be distracting.
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💡Tips from our teachers! Here are some tips direct from teachers using Polymath, and our team from their school visits!
ℹ️ If you are nervous about introducing Polymath to the whole class at once, it can be helpful to start with a small group of students and do a trial run through. For older kids, you can even delegate learning about Polymath to them and have them help lead the lesson!
ℹ️ If you’re using player codes to log in, printing these out and sticking them onto your students devices or workbooks means that they have them handy whenever you want to play.
ℹ️ If you have a class where some students finish the lessons sooner than others, setting Polymath up so kids can play independently can be a great way to keep them occupied and learning maths.
ℹ️ You can use “incognito mode” in your browser to play a game of Polymath against yourself. Simply stay logged in with your teacher account in your main browser window, then out what your students will see by logging in as a student in your incognito window.
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