Carousel: Station Rotation

Mode of Instruction: Teamwork           Purpose: Review

Objective: To facilitate meaningful mathematical discourse, students share thinking and generate ideas by viewing multiple rounds of presentations. Teacher monitors learning through posing purposeful questions.


Stations include review problems—possibly four to six—placed into a sheet protector. There should be more stations than teams. Teams record written explanations on a prepared sheet—in numerical order—to manage teacher review of work. After teams have completed a written explanation for a station, the paper is submitted to the teacher. Teams rotate to an available station.


  • Stations include several review problems.

  • Set up more stations than teams.

  • Teams record written explanations on a prepared record sheet.

  • Teams check in with the teacher.

  • Teams rotate to an available station.

  • Repeat until time is up or stations are complete.


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