Designing the supports for successful groupwork: How to make your task group-WORTHY

Abstract

Groupwork provides opportunities to learn important communication and collaboration skills, but how can we ensure all students are participating equitably while also engaging with the academic content when working in groups? Group-worthy tasks provide participation structures needed for students to engage with the content as well as develop and practice such social skills. This paper describes how to revise or design a task to be group-worthy in the mathematics classroom, using an example task we modified from the National Council of Teacher of Mathematics.