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This is the overview to Kagan Cooperative Learning structures and why they enhance the classroom experience more than traditional classrooms or group work.

This structure is a variation on the RoundTable structure, where students are working simultaneously on individual problems.

This structure activates the competitive nature of students, organizing a game that requires all students to contribute to finding the correct answer, first independently and then together.

This structure forms student teams where members of the team take turns contributing to the same problem.

This structure requires students to take turns contributing to a single problem.

This structure requires one student to solve the problem while the other tells them what to do. The students then swap roles.

This structure emphasizes students positively reacting to their peers when they are successful. Students work together to take turns quizzing each other on an idea.

This structure allows two students to collaboratively think about a problem and work together to find the solution.

This structure offers students versatility, requiring them to solve multiple but different problems practicing the same procedure.