Group Work Fail
Eighth grade math. They had an interesting group assignment: Each group got a copy of that instruction sheet. Enough info, right? (I mean, even at this size it looks pretty detailed. If you want to see it better, just click on the image and it should get bigger.) I'm sure you know where this is going... First period. I briefly skimmed the instructions, pausing on the line, "Facilitator, read and share this with your group before beginning." So, that meant that as a group they'd read the instructions together, right? I was to leave them to go over those directions on their own? That's what I took it to mean. That's not what happened. Okay, then, I need to go over the page with them. No problem. Starting with second period and continuing with all the other classes, we read it together. Now, you'd think that taking five minutes to go over the instructions in detail should be enough. Apparently not. Not one period followed the directions. They did the math, mo...