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Developing Good Team-working Skills

Stage: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

Group work depends on effective team work. This article describes attributes of effective team work and links to "Team Building" problems that can be used to develop learners' team working skills.

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Complex Instruction - Raising Achievement Through Group Worthy Tasks

Stage: 2, 3, 4 and 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Many NRICH tasks have been designed with group work in mind. Read about Jo Boaler's research on the benefits of collaborative work and watch a clip of a teacher working in this way.

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Two Classes Working on Counting Cogs

Stage: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Two video clips of classes organised into groups to work on Counting Cogs.

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Jo Boaler Explains Complex Instruction

Stage: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

A video clip of Jo Boaler talking about Complex Instruction.

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Erratic Quadratic

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Can you find a quadratic equation which passes close to these points?

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Close to Triangular

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Drawing a triangle is not always as easy as you might think!

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Efficient Cutting

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Use a single sheet of A4 paper and make a cylinder having the greatest possible volume. The cylinder must be closed off by a circle at each end.

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Partially Painted Cube

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Jo made a cube from some smaller cubes, painted some of the faces of the large cube, and then took it apart again. 45 small cubes had no paint on them at all. How many small cubes did Jo use?


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