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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A collaborative teaching strategy in which the teacher poses a question or a problem to the students, who think about it and then pair up to discuss their thoughts. countable, uncountable

Etymology

First proposed by Frank Lyman of the University of Maryland in 1981.

Related phrases

think-pair-sharing

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