1. be assigned a seating area in lecture and will sit together in that area. During class teams will work together on in-class activities and collaborate on problems.

2. sit at adjacent computers in lab and help one another with the assigned activities.

3. engage in Collaborative Learning.

4. produce all stages of the Team Project.

Why You Will Work in Teams:

1. The “synergy” produced by the interaction of team members all actively working on the same problem has been shown to enhance and deepen learning.

2. Research demonstrates discomfort with math-like subjects is reduced by the social interaction of group work.

3. Groups are safe places to practice solving problems before you try them on your own and to practice the language of statistics we will be learning.

4. Learning to work in small groups has become an essential real-world survival skill.

5. Explaining materials to others is the best way to come to understand it yourself.

6. Team work produces redundancy in presentation of (that is, repeats) course material and the more often material is heard, the more learning occurs.

7. Different learning styles require a variety of approaches to the material.

8. Collectively your team may produce ways of explaining the material to each other that are clearer to you than the resources provided.

9. It is easier for us to provide more feedback to teams.