Dr. Amanda Jansen

Recent News​

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Recent & Upcoming Talks

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• ​National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics [NCSM]: Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025 - "How can math class save democracy?" Chris Luzniak (lead presenter) and Amanda Jansen

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• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics [NCTM] annual meeting: Thursday, October 14, 2025 - Burst session 2715 - "Enacting Rough Draft Math with Textbooks: It is Possible! Let's Talk about it!"

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• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics [NCTM] research conference: Thursday, October 14, 2025 - Poster session #1, R120 - "Using Rough Draft Math as a Curricular Noticing Lens" co-presenter Meg Botello

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• Keynote speaker - West Virginia Council of
  Teachers of Mathematics (WVCTM) Virtual Seminar on Thursday, November 6, 2025.

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​​Recent Publications​​

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• 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.

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• Smith, E. P., Jansen, A., Middleton, J. A., & Cullicott, C. E. (2024, online first). Potentially engaging mathematics teaching practices in secondary classrooms: Investigating observation tool validity and score reliability. Investigations in Mathematics Learning. ​

 

• 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.

 

• 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]

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• Newton, K. J., Jansen, A., & Puleo, P. (2024). Elements of instruction that motivate students with learning disabilities to learn fractions. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 26(3), 238-257.

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Current Funding

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• Motivating Mathematics in the Middle Grades by Learning Through Rough Drafts and Revising. National Science Foundation, 2024 - 2028. Award I.D. 2400492. PI: Amanda Jansen. Co-PIs: Christina Barbieri & Leigh McLean. $1,759.814.00.

  • project website​

 

• Research Infrastructure for the Development, Implementation, and Assessment of Mathematics Interventions at Scale: An Incubator Project (Role: Research Associate), National Science Foundation, 2023-2025.  Award I.D. 2243797. PI: Prasad Ram. Co-PIs: Jessica Hunt, Teomara Rutherford, and Heather Sherburn. $499,898.00.

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Recent Award

• Excellence in Scholarly Community Engagement Award, University of Delaware. Awarded by the University Faculty Senate and the Committee on Student and Faculty Honors, recognized at the March 4, 2024 faculty senate meeting.

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Previously Funded Research

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• SMiLES: Secondary Mathematics in-the-moment Engagement Study, National Science Foundation, EHR Core. 2017-2020. Award I.D. 1661180. PI: Jim Middleton (Arizona State University. Co-PI: Amanda Jansen (University of Delaware). $1,463,636.

  • Arizona State University's article about our project.​

  • University of Delaware's article about our project.​

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• Center for Inquiry and Equity in Mathematics, National Science Foundation​, DUE. 2018-2020. PI: Sarah Sword (Education Development Center). Co-PIs: Amanda Jansen (UD), Michael Young (Iowa State University), Al Cuoco (EDC). $599,985​​

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PAST NEWS

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