Facilitating shared learning
Shared learning involves students working co-operatively and collaboratively (BES, pp. 64-65) with one another to build language and understanding.
Examples of activities that facilitate shared learning:
- students working in groups
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Think/pair/share
- "Can you use Sarah’s method to solve this problem?"
- appropriate groupings of students
- learning conversations
- thinking groups
- shaping mathematical and statistical language
- six bit problems, for example, Get it together – EQUALS
- language activities, for example, Cooperative Mathematics, Level 7 and 8, R McIntyre.
Specific activities
Further information
- EQUALS. (1989). Get it together. Berkeley, California: Lawrence Hall of Science.
- McIntyre, R. (1994). Cooperative mathematics for level seven. Auckland, New Zealand: Longman Paul.
- McIntyre, R. (1995). Cooperative mathematics for level eight. Masterton, New Zealand: Wairarapa Education Resource Centre.
Last updated September 17, 2018
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