|
|
About TouchMath:
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY TESTIMONIALS
We're always excited to publish your engaging TouchMath stories in our catalogs and monthly e-newsletters, and on the TouchMath website.
We’re grateful that so many teachers and students have told us about their experiences with TouchMath. People often share personal memories about the impact TouchMath has made on their lives, or anecdotes about students who have made dramatic improvements. We love hearing from thrilled teachers, students and parents about better comprehension and higher test scores.
Your testimonials are also helpful to your colleagues, and to anyone looking for ways to improve math skills and self-esteem among students.
Send Us Your Results!
When we publish comments, articles, or papers of any kind, we provide you with a FREE TouchMath Kit or Poster Set of your choice.
Click here to email us your story!
Exclusion Inclusion
Dr. Dev is a native of India, and she has a unique understanding of why teachers today need to use different teaching techniques for diverse classrooms, in effect, to become more inclusive.
“TouchMath is a useful teaching tool. It has been developed by former teachers, thus giving it a lot of credibility. Providing kids with ‘hands-on’ learning opportunities is always helpful.”
|
 |
Helping Kids Raise Test Scores David Cihak, Ph.D. teaches Applied Behavioral Ananlysis and Methods Course for Severe Multiple Disabilities at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
|
“TouchMath is effective for helping kids raise test
scores. More importantly, students are learning basic computational skills, and even more advanced word problems and problem solving.”
|
|
complete story |
complete story |
|
 |
The Power and Beauty of Mathematics
A Kansas college professor encourages new teachers to break away from teaching traditions to help meet today's math standards. |
|
complete story |
| |
Flash cards, speed drills, worksheets, memorization…
This is how most of us were taught mathematics. This is how traditional teachers continue to teach in spite of wholesale failure in elementary school mathematics and the distressing number of remedial math courses in American high schools, colleges and universities. Different methods of teaching mathematics must be employed. |
 |
|
complete story |
| |
Learning of Concepts Follows a Predicted Set of Stages
A leading Alabama author and educator has a mission: to help teachers and their students overcome math-learning obstacles.
"Love your subject. Your students will do the same.
"A well-founded positive attitude toward the subject you teach – the process of learning and teaching – and a genuine love of an confidence in your students are imperative." |
Confidence
Teaching aspiring educators today means exposing them to tools designed to get fast, confidence-building results.
The following interview reveals how Professor Mary Todd Allen has been helping young educators help their students overcome common math learning obstacles. |
|
complete story |
complete story |
|
|
 |
20 Years, Thousands of Teachers, and A Pathfinder's Enduring Approach to Continuing Math Education
In the early 1980's, TouchMath founder Jan Bullock picked up the telephone one day and called Don Sass. A graduate of Illinois State University, Don Sass had been a 3rd grade teacher in Portland, Oregon, and he had accumulated years of classroom experience. He had also become curious about how to improve math literacy. Knowing their similar passions, Bullock encouraged him to become a TouchMath trainer. |
|
complete story
|
Continuing Education
“Teachers in middle schools are saying to teachers in elementary schools, 'You are sending us children who are not as proficient as we think they should be in math.'” |
 |
| complete story |
 |
Universities and Colleges
Some of the universities and colleges that have taught TouchMath to teachers... |
| |
complete story |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|