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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2024)
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Sage and scribe – asymmetrical pair work that can easily fit into any mathematics lesson, yet still have cooperative benefits

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2024-12-20
DOI Linkhttps://doi.org/10.5485/TMCS.2024.14212
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Eszter Kovács-Kószó,
Viktória Czakó,
József Kosztolányi
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Sage and scribe cooperative learning pair work case study cooperative benefits
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Kovács-Kószó, E., Czakó, V., & Kosztolányi, J. (2024). Sage and scribe – asymmetrical pair work that can easily fit into any mathematics lesson, yet still have cooperative benefits. Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science, 22(2), 133-164. https://doi.org/10.5485/TMCS.2024.14212
Abstract

This article uses a case study experiment to learn the characteristics of a pair work, called the sage and scribe method (Kagan, 2008). We also wished to explore the positive and negative effects of the systematic application of this single cooperative element without any other structural changes during the lessons. In the case study experiment, we asked two teachers, accustomed to traditional frontal teaching methods, to substitute individual work tasks in their standard lesson plans with the sage and scribe method. Our experiments indicate that this method wastes insignificant time, requires little extra effort on the part of the teacher, yet has many of the positive effects of cooperative methods: in our experiments, students received immediate feedback, corrected each other’s mistakes, learned from each other in meaningful discussions and engaged in collaborative reasoning to address emerging problems.

Subject Classification: 97D40

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