POLYPAD MANIPULATIVES
Polypad is the ultimate collection of virtual manipulatives by Mathigon. It has ready to use polygons, number and algebra tiles, fraction bars, fractals , pentominoes, and much more. You can find Polypad under the Activities section of Mathigon. When you create an account, you can save your Polypad files and share them with your students with their links.
On the sidebar, there are two tabs; Tiles and Library. When you click on Library, you may see the files (manipulatives) created by Mathigon as well as your own saved canvases.
At the very bottom of the sidebar, you can find the links to the page "Sample Lesson Plans and Video Tutorials".
I use Polypad a lot in my lessons and wanted to share the links of the lessons that I prepared; (This list will be updated periodically.)
You can save as copies and edit them as you wish.
Visual Patterns 3
Chairs around the Table Problem
Border Tiles Problem
Fractals 1 - 2
True Scale Multiplication Table
Pascal Triangle with Factors
Kolam Designs 1 - 2
Different Proofs of Number Sums
Visual Patterns 1
Visual Patterns 2
Penrose Tiles 1 - 2
Triangular Numbers
Proofs of Sum of Odd and Even Numbers
Construct different size squares on the grid.
Sphinx tiling
Tetrahedral Numbers
Cube Number
Unit Fractions
Hexadecagons
How many with Dice
Pick's Theorem
Sum of 1/2s and 1/4s
Spidrons
Dodecagon Dissection
Experimental Probability with the Galton Board and Coin Flips
Galton Board, Pascal Triangle, Normal Distribution and How can you change the distribution
Visual Proof of the Cube of a Binomial
Cube Numbers and Nicomachu’s Theorem:
Grid Paths
Number Bars and Fibonacci
Brick Walls and Fibonacci
Kite Squares
Diagonals of Rectangles
Mystic Rose
