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Since the late 1960s, a variety of types of cooperative learning procedures have been used in teaching many different mathematics courses, ranging from elementary school through graduate school. The procedures include small-group interaction in which students work together in groups of three to six members, partner learning taking place in dyads, and a peer-tutoring variation of partner learning in which one student is assigned to tutor another. Peer tutoring includes both same-age tutoring and cross-age tutoring, in which an older student tutors a younger one.
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Davidson, N. (1985). Small-Group Learning and Teaching in Mathematics. In: Slavin, R., Sharan, S., Kagan, S., Hertz-Lazarowitz, R., Webb, C., Schmuck, R. (eds) Learning to Cooperate, Cooperating to Learn. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3650-9_8
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