think-pair-share

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think-pair-share

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

noun think-pair-shares · TPS

countable, uncountable 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.

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@misc{think_pair_share_2026,
  title = {think-pair-share},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/think-pair-share},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}