CPM Glossary

Mode of Instruction: Independent/Teamwork           Purpose: Share ideas

Objective: To support productive struggle in learning mathematics, students visit other teams to generate ideas about a concept/topic. Teacher makes instructional decisions after posing purposeful questions.

A team becomes stuck while problem solving. The Resource Manager becomes a spy for the team and silently circulates to listen for ideas from other teams. The Resource Manager refrains from any team interactions while spying on other teams. The Resource manager reports back to the team to share information about the problem.

• Team becomes stuck at one point while problem solving.

• The Resource Manager circulates around the classroom, silently listening to, or spying on the teams' work.

• The Resource Manager reports back to the team to share information about the problem.