BOOK & RELATED PUBLICATIONS

Jansen, A. (2020). Rough Draft Math: Revising to Learn. Routledge.

Jansen, A. (2020). Rough-Draft Thinking and Revising in Mathematics. Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 113(12), e107-e110.

Jansen, A., Cooper, B., Vascellaro, S., & Wandless, P. (2017). Rough-draft talk in mathematics classrooms. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 22(5), 304-307.

Selected as an MTMS “favorite”​

NCTM’s 2018 Research into Practice award​​​

Thanheiser, E., & Jansen, A. (2016). Inviting prospective teachers to share rough draft mathematical thinking. Mathematics Teacher Educator, 4(2), 145-163.

Jansen, A., Silla, E. M., & Collier, C. L. (2024). Salience and feasibility of enacting rough draft math: Teachers’ voices about productive and powerful variations. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education. [online first, open access]

Jansen, A., Botello, M., & Silla, E.M. (2024). Rough draft math as an evolving practice: Incremental changes in mathematics teachers’ thinking and instruction. Education Sciences, 14(11), 1266.

Bondurant, L., & Jansen, A. (2025). Rough draft math for engaged learning: Preservice and novice mathematics teachers to support their efforts to foster student engagement and learning. Journal of Mathematics Education Leadership, 26(1), 20-31.

ARTICLES

Rathouz, M., Cengiz-Phillips, N., & Krebs, A. S. (2023). Promoting Equitable PST Participation in Mathematical Discourse: Rough Drafts on an Asynchronous Discussion Board. Mathematics Teacher Educator, 11(2), 117-131.

Edutopia: Rough Draft Thinking can make Math Class More Inclusive (10/15/2020)​

KQED’s MindShift: How Encouraging Rough Draft Thinking Highlights the Strengths in All Students (9/28/2020)

KQED’s MindShift: What It Looks Like When Students Share and Revise Rough Drafts in Math Class (9/28/2020)

EdWeek: Getting Students to Talk about Math Solves Problems (5/05/2020)

UDaily: Rough Draft Math (3/31/2020)

Colorado Mathematics Teacher: Dylan Kane connects “Stronger and Clearer Each Time” to Rough Draft Math (3/03/2020)

Felisilda, A. B., & Roble, D. B. (2020). Students’ problem solving skills using rough draft talk strategy in mathematics classrooms. European Journal of Education Studies, 7(7).

Cox, D. C. (2019). Toward an Empathetic Understanding of Scholarship. Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa (Auto) Biográfica, 4(10), 68-79. (Dana Cox connects rough draft thinking to conducting scholarship in mathematics education.)

Magma: Redefining Math Through Rough Draft Thinking by Henrik Appert

VIDEO RECORDED PRESENTATIONS

Ignite talk at NCTM annual meeting (September 29, 2023) [6 minutes]

ShadowCon VI – Diving in with our Students [12 minutes] (September 29, 2022)

Plenary speaker at Matematikksenteret conference, Trondheim, Norway (Nov. 30 – Dec. 1, 2021). Video [~50 min] of talk here.

NCTM’s 100 Days of Professional Learning [behind NCTM paywall] (10/05/2020)

UNC-Greensboro Yopp Distinguished Speaker Series in Mathematics Education – afternoon talk [1 hour] (2/24/2020)

Presentation to the Association of Maryland Mathematics Teacher Educators – Inviting Rough Draft Thinking to Humanize the Math Classroom [1 hour] (3/28/2019)

PODCAST EPISODES

Audio: Blue Glasses Math with Pam Brett. How revising our thinking transforms learning [36 minutes] (January 29, 2025)

Audio: Learner Centered Spaces with Starr Sackstein & Crystal Frommert. Mandy Jansen makes connections in math. (December 29, 2024) [23 minutes]

Audio: More Math for More People (CPM podcast with Joel Miller and Misty Nikula). Part 1 [41 minutes] (May 14, 2024) and Part 2 [27 minutes] (May 28, 2024).

Audio: Rounding Up (Math Learning Center podcast with Mike Wallus), Season 2, Episode 13 (March 7, 2024) [21 minutes]

Audio: Evidence for Education [E4E] podcast. Season 4, Episode 5: The Power of Engagement. (February 6, 2024) [20 minutes]

Audio: Learning through Math with Laura Tomas and Karina Cousins. Episode 126: A Conversation with Mandy Jansen [48 minutes] (January 22, 2024).

Audio: Learning through Math, Episode 105 (Laura Tomas and Karina Cousins discuss: What is Rough Draft Math?) [26 minutes] (3/26/2023)

Audio & Video: Debate Math, Episode 15: Retakes versus Test Corrections [56 minutes, Audio, Video] (March 9, 2023)

Audio: All Learners Network with John Tapper and T.J. Jemison. Episode (Season 3, Episode 7): Rough Draft Math and the Brilliance of Student Thinking. [46 minutes] (November 21, 2022).

Audio: NCSM Leadership in Mathematics Education – Learning with Leaders podcast, Episode: Creating a District-Wide Evolution toward Rough Draft Math with Laura Bower and Traci Richards from Tacoma Public Schools [21 minutes] (October, 2022)

Video: Teaching Like Ted Lasso, Episode 2: Be Curious, interviewed by Dave Coffey [22:05 – 42:36], (11/02/22) 

Audio: Math Ed Podcast episode 2019, interviewed by Sam Otten [21 minutes] (12/07/21)

Audio: Ready, Set, Growth podcast episode, Interviewed by Nick Moskaluk [31 minutes] (01/03/2022)

Video: Math Teacher Lounge, Episode 4, Segment 2 – Wrong and Brilliant [7 minutes] (4/12/2021)

Audio: Amidon Planet podcast episode – Rough Draft Thinking with Dr. Amanda Jansen [44 minutes] (1/29/2021)

Video: Episode about Rough Draft Math on the Looney Math “Math Together” show [48 min] (11/29/2020)

Audio: Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud, Teacher Edition – Rough Draft Math. Includes transcript [17 min] (9/08/2020)

Audio: Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud, Coaches’ Edition – Revision Thinking in Math Classrooms. Includes transcript [26 min] (8/27/2020)

Audio: Stenhouse Teacher’s Corner – Math instruction in the age of COVID-19 (with Chris Luzniak, author of Up for Debate!). Includes transcript [39 min] (8/15/2020)

Audio: Teaching Math Teaching – summer book club wrap up [44 min] (6/25/2020)

Audio: Teaching Math Teaching – rough draft math in regular and online math classrooms [26 min] (4/14/2020)

Video: What is Rough Draft Math? Interviewed by Dr. Eva Thanheiser, Portland State University [7 min] (4/03/2020)

Video: Connections between Rough Draft Math and Literacy – Interviewed by Dr. Susan Bennett-Armistead, University of Maine [28 min] (3/20/2020)

Video: Rough Draft Math (Stenhouse video) [less than 2 min] (3/09/2020)

BLOG POSTS

Stenhouse Blog: Revising Mathematics Thinking Through Multiple Drafts (with Leah Simon)

Stenhouse Blog: Rough Draft Math in Online Math Class (with Megan Wickstrom and Derek Williams)

Stenhouse Blog: Getting Started with Making and Evaluating Claims in Math (Something to Talk About) (with Molly Brnich) (9/30/2021)

Illustrative Mathematics curriculum’s blog by Courtney Ortega: The Role of Revision in Math Class (4/27/2023)

Middle Web blog: A Rough Draft Math Mindset Boosts Learning (with Kathleen Taylor) (7/26/2021)

Mr. Joyce 180’s blog post about rough draft math (10/11/2020)

UCDS: Blogs We are Reading – Rough Draft Thinking (10/08/2020)

AMS blog: Francis Su’s Blogs and Rough Drafts for Math (8/31/2020)

Francis Su: Teach Math Like You’d Teach Writing (8/24/2020)

Middle Web’s review of Rough Draft Math (6/04/2020)

Katherin Cartwright: Why drafting and re-drafting is important in math class (11/25/2019)

Crystal Kalenic-Craig: The Right to Claim a Mistake and Revise your Thinking (7/17/2019)

Kim Rimbey: Writing Rough Drafts in Math Class? (4/30/2018)

Jill Gough: What is Rough Draft Thinking & how can it be integrated into math classrooms? (4/24/2018)

Dan Meyer: Rough Draft Thinking and Bucky the Badger (3/21/2018)

Dan Meyer: Rough draft talk in front of hundreds of math teachers (3/19/2018)

Andrew Busch’s blog posts (2018 & 2017)

Dennis DeBay: Rough Draft Thinking – Kristina & Stephanie (2023)

Sarah Stecher: 3 Things I Learned at NCTM (2023)

Leslie Nielsen: Learning From Conferences: Taking Action, Reflecting & Learning Some More! (3/25/2024)

Dennis DeBay: Chapter 5, RDM (2023)