"think-pair-share" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: think-pair-shares [plural]
Etymology: First proposed by Frank Lyman of the University of Maryland in 1981. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} think-pair-share (countable and uncountable, plural think-pair-shares)
  1. (education) A collaborative teaching strategy in which the teacher poses a question or a problem to the students, and the students are given sufficient time to think and gather their thoughts, after which the teacher asks them to pair themselves and share their thoughts with each other. Wikipedia link: University of Maryland, think-pair-share Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Education Synonyms: TPS [initialism] Derived forms: think-pair-sharing
    Sense id: en-think-pair-share-en-noun-AUovrVBD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: education

Inflected forms

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