Mode of Instruction: Teamwork           Purpose: Elicit responses to a prompt before discussion

Objective: To facilitate meaningful mathematical discourse, students share understanding of a topic to analyze and compare other student approaches to the same topic. Teacher monitors through effective circulation.

Teams receive five or six sentence starters (fortunes) related to topics/concepts/norms in an envelope. Team Member (1) draws a sentence starter from the envelope, reads it aloud, and shares a brief—30 second—explanation. Team Member (2) receives the same sentence starter, makes one comment about Team Member (1)'s explanation, and rotates to continue the process for each member.

Team member (2) draws a sentence starter from the envelope, reads it aloud, and shares. Team member (3) receives the same sentence starter, makes one comment about Team Member (2)'s explanation. Continue this rotation for each of the sentence starters in the envelope.

Teacher circulates to make instructional decisions about team discussions. For closure, each sentence starter (fortune) is included on a separate poster—not previously mentioned to the students. Teams rotate through each poster location to add one comment/explanation about the sentence starter.

• Teams receive sentence starters (fortunes) in an envelope.

• Team Member (1) reads one sentence starter and shares a brief explanation.

• Team Member (2) receives the same sentence starter and comments on Team Member (1)'s explanation.

• Rotate to each team member.

• When complete, Team Member (2) reads one sentence starter and shares.

• Team Member (3) comments on Team Member (2)'s explanation.

• Continue the rotation through all sentence starters (fortunes).

• Posters with each fortune are displayed around the room after the activity is complete.

• Each team adds one comment to each poster for closure.