If you decide to meet with a group to help, here's some suggestions about how to make the time profitable for everyone involved.
* Pick a time that works for all of you, ideally the same time each day. * Meet somewhere where there are enough chalk boards / white boards that you can each work independently at the same time. * Make the meeting a working meeting. You all work. If the problems for tomorrow are 17-24, then have everybody work on 17 at the same time. Don't let one person be the scribe for the whole group (at least not at the start of a problem). * As you work, look around at your peers. If you are doing something completely different than your peers, you both might be doing it right (there's not always 1 way to do something). If you get stuck, ask for help. Go as far as you can on your own. The key is to find where you get stuck. Then you know how to eliminate your weaknesses. * As you talk to and help each other, you'll naturally start working on the same problem with only one person writing. This will happen as you help each other find and overcome weaknesses. * When you finish a problem, take a picture of the problem and start on the next. You might find a group Drobbox folder valuable. * In your personal time that evening, write up the solution nicely so that you can present it the next day in class. This help you organize the key ideas of the course, and stores them in long term memory. It also means you are ready to present the next day.
Here's a word of warning about group work.
* Do not say, "Hey, let's each work on some problems and then get together and compare answers." This completely destroys the point of inquiry based learning. At some point, you'll find yourselves copying each other's work. You're back to ``Monkey-see, Monkey-do.'' * Do not let the same person scribe for the group for every problem. Ideally, everyone should start as their own scribe for each problem. Let your work meld together only as you help each other overcome road blocks. * Do not spend group time in writing up nicely polished versions of the work that you did as a group. Use group time for group things.