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Help and Instructions

Polypad is a collection of interactive digital manipulatives. It is designed for tablets, desktop computers as well as interactive smartboards, and can be used by teachers and individual students.

Lesson Plans

Pentomino Perimeters

US Grades 4–8

This lesson explores the perimeter of shapes made from pentominoes, and offers students opportunities to work systematically and construct reasoned arguments.

Shapes Around a Vertex

US Grades 6–8

In this lesson, we explore the internal angles of regular polygons, and how they decide whether polygons can me joined together without any gaps.

Tetromino Reptiles

US Grades 5–8

This task uses tetrominoes as a context for exploring enlargements (dilations) and scale factors. Which “rep-tiles” can your students create?

Keyboard Shortcuts and Accessibility

Polypad supports many different keyboard shortcuts for ease of use:

• Hold the shift key and tap multiple tiles, to select multiple tiles at once.
• Press the backspace key to delete your current selection, and the C key to duplicate your current selection.
• Press CTRL + X/Y to undo or redo your last change.

Polypad is fully keyboard accessible. In addition to standard tab events to cycle through buttons and tiles, we support these additional shortcuts:

• The ARROW keys move the currently selected tile up, down, left or right.
• The R key rotate the currently selected tile by 15°. Also press shift to rotate by –15°.
• The S key moves the focus to the beginning of the sidebar.
• The T key moves the focus to the beginning of the toolbar.
• The U key moves the focus to the canvas area.
• The ESC key clears the current selection, and close any open popups and modals.