# @edutopia on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CLMvh1sgzex
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20303939-edutopia-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-02-12T16:37:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Edutopia (@edutopia) — https://gondola.cc/edutopia

## Caption

Telling students, “This is just your rough-draft thinking right now” gives them permission to ask questions, make mistakes, and then revise their work without the stifling prospect of failure, explains math professor Amanda Jensen and her colleagues, for the journal Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School.

Explicitly labeling activities across the curriculum—from writing to drawing to science— as “rough-drafting thinking” fosters a culture of intellectual risk-taking and gives students an opportunity to sketch initial solutions without worrying about being right or wrong.

To encourage “rough-draft talk,” the verbalization of rough-draft thinking, teachers can highlight the idea that learning takes time and that it’s beneficial to talk through ideas that aren’t fully formed in small groups.

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