Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

think-pair-share

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English

Syllables: think--pair-share
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Usage

Inflected Forms

think-pair-shares (plural) TPS (alternative)

Phrases

think-pair-sharing

Questions

What does think-pair-share mean?: 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.
Where does think-pair-share come from?: First proposed by Frank Lyman of the University of Maryland in 1981.

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