Fraction Match
Why do this problem?
This team-building
task is designed to develop learners' team-working skills. If you
wish to learn more about these skills and find other team-builder
tasks look at this article.
This task depends upon members of the group noticing the needs of
others and responding. It requires learners to:
- respond to the needs of others
- consider the needs of the whole group
- help others to do things for themselves.
Possible approach
Share the purposes of the activity and the rules with the group.
Ask team leaders to hand
the cards
out randomly - four cards to each group member.
As teams finish, ask them
to discuss the key things they have learnt about working together.
Use observers to feed into the discussions. Then spend some time
discussing observations you have made or teams have made as a whole
class activity, talking about how they might work more effectively
next time.
Key questions
As this task is designed
to be carried out in silence, the use of key questions is
inappropriate during the task but can inform discussion of team
behaviours when the task is complete.
- Can you give any good examples of when someone noticed what you
needed and tried to help?
Possible extension
Other skill-building tasks can be found by going to this article.
Possible support
Other skill-building tasks can be found by going to this article.