CPM Professional Learning Portal

Mode of Instruction: Teamwork           Purpose: Build understanding of information

Objective: To promote reasoning about a mathematical concept, team members share responsibility for learning different parts of a concept. Each member teaches other members about that part.

Each team member becomes an expert for one part of a topic or concept. Large reading assignments are broken into four parts, and each member of the team receives one part of the reading. Use Numbered Heads to assign a number to each team member. Team Member (1) learns about one part and prepares to share that learning. Team Members (2), (3), and (4) repeat this same process.

Jigsaw (Four Corners) - (Jigsaw variation)

Each team member becomes an expert for one part of the material presented. Each team member reports to the corner assigned, reads the assigned part, discusses with other students in that corner, decides on an explanation, and returns to the original team. Team members then take turns sharing with their team.

• Each team member is assigned a different part of a topic or concept.

• Team member (1) learns about the topic or concept.

• Team member (1) presents the information to the team.

• Team Members (2), (3), and (4) repeat this same process.