Cooperative study teams in mathematics classrooms

Abstract

This article describes a general instructional strategy designed to help students in the learning process from textbooks and to furnish opportunities for practice in critical reading. Students participate in cooperative learning by breaking the class up into small groups—the Study Teams—and providing them with worksheets and reading organizers, which organize the material into small items that reflect the major concepts in the reading material on which the study is focused. Some of the benefits that this type of instruction with Study Teams can produce are described.