Facilitating shared learning

Examples of activities that facilitate shared learning:

• students working in groups
• 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

• Co-operative logic activity on representing number patterns.
• In groups, doing a statistical investigation and presenting findings to the class.
• Activity: Culturally locating our students in the class
• Activity: Cell phone pricing plans
• Activity: Measuring with digital pictures
• Activity: Straight line pictures
• Activity: Water woes
• Activity: Chocolate statistical literacy
• Activity: Coffee costs
• Activity: Cool coffee
• Activity: I am just not fast enough
• Activity: Legal driving age

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.

  • 7Cooperative Maths 1 (PDF, 3 MB)

  • 7Cooperative Maths 2 (PDF, 4 MB)

  • 7Cooperative Maths 3 (PDF, 7 MB)

  • 7Cooperative Maths 4 (PDF, 3 MB)

• McIntyre, R. (1995). Cooperative mathematics for level eight. Masterton, New Zealand: Wairarapa Education Resource Centre.

  • 8Cooperative Maths 1 (PDF, 5 MB)

  • 8Cooperative Maths 2 (PDF, 11 MB)

  • 8Cooperative Maths 3 (PDF, 5 MB)

  • 8Cooperative Maths 4 (PDF, 226 KB)

• Anthony, G., & Walshaw, M. (2009). Arranging for learning. Effective Pedagogy in Mathematics (pp. 9-10). Belley: Gonnet Imprimeur.
• Anthony, G., & Walshaw, M. (2009). Mathematical communication. Effective Pedagogy in Mathematics (pp. 19–20). Belley: Gonnet Imprimeur.
• Anthony, G., & Walshaw, M. (2007). Effective Pedagogy in Pāngarau/Mathematics: Best Evidence Synthesis Iteration (BES). Wellington: Ministry of Education.

Last updated April 9, 2024

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