Polypad (polypad.amplify.com)

37 points by ivank 2 days ago

4 comments:

by tieandjeans 2 minutes ago

Amplify (neé Desmos) builds great tools and manipulatives that are great for classroom use and curious play. Read more of the pedagogy behind these tools on Mathworlds. https://danmeyer.substack.com/

by yanis_t 10 minutes ago

That's really cool. A nice touch is how the help is implement with every widget having a little question mark you can click, and it shows a tutorial on the left panel. Also thank you for letting us in without sign up.

by mosselman 2 hours ago

I am super impressed by this. The landing page is GREAT, it really shows you what it can do and I tried creating a polypad and it works just as well as the landing page makes it seem.

I would have loved to have this when I was in school and I can imagine it is a great tool for teachers. I am going to let my kids play around with this.

In rereading my comment it sounds like some sort of lame ad, which I can assure you it isn't. I am just excited about it.

by christoph 17 minutes ago

Same! It’s one of those projects where as soon as I scroll the landing page, I can hear the fireworks of ideas going off in my head! It seems to work really well on mobile as well. I think it’s got real visual aesthetic appeal - it takes me right back to the handdrawn colour diagrams in the textbooks when I was at primary school.

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