What is 2+2=5?
2+2=5: The Power of Teamwork, is an intensive teambuilding program that leverages teambuilding activities through the use of reflection to discover, develop, and enhance interpersonal skills such as leadership, communication, diversity on teams, trust, problem solving, negotiation, and emotional intelligence. The 2+2=5 program was created in 2003 in Waltham, Massachusetts.
The 2+2=5 program provides university students the opportunity to serve in the community as a mentor and team coach for the participating children. The program was originally designed for fourth and fifth grade elementary students, and to be led and facilitated by university students. The coach facilitates teambuilding activities in which the children focus on the development of interpersonal skills. The facilitator uses team reflections to leverage learning opportunities. The 2+2=5 program even includes corporate teambuilding workshops focusing on the professional development of employees and developing a team dynamic in workplace culture.
Why does 2+2 Equal 5?
Hear it from those who have experienced it for themselves. Some reactions to the 2+2=5 program:
“Two plus two really does equal five. The games we play really teach us that teamwork is important. For most of these games, we couldn’t accomplish the goal, unless we worked as a team, “said Ashley, fourth grade student.
“I never really realized that we use teamwork everyday! It takes a lot of hard work to develop a team, but once we did, we really saw results,” stated Christopher, fifth grade student.
“I can’t believe how much I learned from the program. I thought I knew everything there was to know about leadership until I saw the activities in motion. It shed new light on what I thought I already knew,” added Marcus, college junior student.
“2+2=5 really challenges you to think more deeply about the way we interact as teams. I never thought about how dynamic teams really can be. I’m sure that my experience in this program will be useful when I graduate,” said Stephanie, college sophomore student.
The 2+2=5 program has had over 3,000 children and 500 college students go through the program and each participant has taken a unique experience from 2+2=5. We have seen ten and eleven year-old children thrive in a team atmosphere quickly being able to pick up team skills, applying it to an activity, and even teaching us a thing or two in the process.
We have even seen life-changing moments. So often, the words “life-changing” are used that they take on form of a hyperbole, but in some cases, the 2+2=5 program has been, without a doubt, life-changing.
Take Jenny, for example, a selective mute, unable and unwilling to speak to adults who, through 2+2=5, was able to break out of her troubling disorder and flourish as a leader on her team.
2+2=5 is a complex idea and built through the use of interpersonal building blocks, but it’s not so complex in the eyes of a child. It’s amazing who we can learn from if we open our eyes and ears. Come along for a journey as the teacher becomes the student. This is what I learned from some fourth and fifth graders…
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