cooperate

To be a successful team, everyone has to cooperate or work together to meet a goal. Early in the season, my soccer team learned that we do better when we cooperate or help each other. Some players only thought of themselves, at least until our coach taught us to look out for other team members by passing the ball more. Now that we are cooperating or acting together, the games are more fun—and our team has been winning!

Quiz: Try again! If two people cooperate, what are they doing?

• They each work alone on a task and compare results after both have finished.
• They seriously think about doing something together.
• They are working by joining their efforts.

• “We make learning fun, and they think they’re playing games, and they think they’re singing and dancing,” Morris said. “But what they’re really doing is learning the alphabet and learning how to rhyme and learning how to count syllables and learning how to cooperate together in groups.” — KOSU
• The young sweethearts Eleonore and Carelis (Ida Praetorius, Andreas Kaas, two of the most marvelous Danish dancers today) truly cooperate. They begin doing the same steps like mirror images of each other. — The New York Times