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I once read an article on BBC News about how UK educators wanted to observe how the Chinese math teachers taught their kids.  What they noticed was that in the UK, and here, the kids work in groups, while in China, it's the teacher dealing with the whole class, the way they used to teach math here, the way I grew up.  In the Chinese class, the teacher would ask a math question, and the children had to raise a card up with the right answer. [b] The teacher could see immediately which kid was having difficulty and could work with that kid earlier on; vs. in small groups, it takes the teacher longer to figure out who is having difficulty.  I could see this as a valid argument.
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I don't know when and why educators here decided to have small groups.[/quote]

This makes total sense if you're trying to teach the same material to all the kids.
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But this is what is happening.  There is very little differentiation. They all work on the same worksheets.[/quote]

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