Getting Better at Group Work
Working on a problem in a group gives you chance to discuss your ideas and further your thinking. Three or four brains are usually better than one! These activities will help you improve your group-working skills.
Arranging Cubes Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level: 
A task which depends on members of the group working collaboratively to reach a single goal.
En-counters Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
This task requires learners to explain and help others, asking and answering questions.
Counters in the Middle Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
This task depends on groups working collaboratively, discussing and reasoning to agree a final product.
What Shape? Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
This task develops spatial reasoning skills. By framing and asking questions a member of the team has to find out what mathematical object they have chosen.
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NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.