Group and Individual Work

Autor/in	Williamson, Victoria
Titel	Group and Individual Work
Quelle	In: Mathematics Teaching Incorporating Micromath, (2006) 195, S.42-45 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0025-5785
Schlagwörter	Group Activities; Individual Activities; Teaching Methods; Mathematics Instruction; Student Attitudes; Student Reaction; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gruppenaktivität; Individual work; Einzelarbeit; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Schülerverhalten; Schülerkritik
Abstract	In this article, the author compares how her pupils responded to the same task when working individually and in small groups. She wants to look at communication and the effect that increasing the opportunities for collaborative group work has had on the quality of her pupils' understanding. She became concerned that the 23 "Level D" children (age 11-12) in the class were not getting enough opportunity to discuss the mathematical processes and their own reasoning with their peers during maths lessons. Lessons tended to be carried out on a teacher-class interaction basis with children working individually with a final feedback session. While all children were encouraged to contribute to these feedback sessions, she felt that collaboration and sharing of ideas during the initial stages of solving problems, rather than at the end, would prove beneficial to the pupils' understanding. This investigation has shown her that increasing the pupils' levels of motivation by allowing them to communicate their reasoning and ideas in mixed ability groups is a means to solving these problems in itself, rather than a factor which contributes to these problems. (Contains 1 figure.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10