Program Introduction
Multisensory Math Program
The TouchMath Program
TouchMath is an explicit, multisensory math program for students who struggle with key foundational math skills and abstract concepts from preschool through transition. Available in digital and print, the TouchMath Solution empowers educational teams to assess, teach, report, and positively impact students across all settings.
The TouchMath Approach
The TouchMath Solution is the only explicit, multisensory math program that uses the numeral itself as a manipulative. Using TouchNumerals and TouchPoints with explicit and systematic math instruction lets students see, touch, say, and hear math in a whole new way. The TouchMath approach brings the Concrete–Representational–Abstract (CRA) continuum into practice, ensuring that students master concrete concepts before transitioning to representational and abstract thinking.
To see the TouchPoints and counting sequence in action, watch this short video.
TouchPoints Are Just the Beginning...
TouchMath is a comprehensive solution for multisensory foundational math.
Did you know TouchMath is much more than using numerals as manipulatives? Using the Model-Lead-Test approach, TouchMath provides equitable access to high quality math instruction that addresses counting and cardinality, operations and algebraic thinking, numbers and operations in base ten, measurement and data, and geometry.
Aligned to state and extended standards, TouchMath is used in special education programs in self-contained, resource, and inclusion classrooms throughout the country and as an effective, supplemental math solution for Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions.
Comprehensive Scope and Sequence
The comprehensive scope and sequence shows the progression of concepts and skills for each math domain.
Teaching and Learning Cycle
The TouchMath Teaching and Learning Cycle revolutionizes how we approach mathematics education by creating a seamless flow from assessment to instruction to monitoring. We begin with precise student assessment, move into targeted, multisensory instruction, and maintain continuous progress monitoring throughout the learning journey. Think of it as having a GPS for learning – always knowing where your students are and the best route to get them where they need to be.
Progress Monitoring
Progress monitoring enables educators to evaluate student performance and make decisions quickly to adapt student instruction. With TouchMath, tracking student progress becomes seamless, allowing for real-time insights through customizable reports. This data-driven approach empowers educational teams to make informed decisions, ensuring that each student’s unique learning journey is supported and guided effectively.
The Explicit, Multisensory Math Solution for Administrators, Educators, and Students
With fifty years of proven results, the TouchMath solution has positively impacted how educational teams support the diverse and complex needs of students diagnosed with dyscalculia and those who struggle with math.
Instructional Strategies
- Explicit Instruction: Proven effective for students who struggle with math, the TouchMath Solution is grounded by explicit, systematic instruction.
- Concrete-Representational-Abstract: Make abstract concepts more accessible with a scaffolded design and the CRA instructional sequence.
- Universal Design for Learning: The TouchMath Solution provides multiple means of engagement, representation, and action and expression.
Multisensory
- Hands-On Learning: Improve student engagement with multisensory, hands-on manipulatives proven to accelerate learning.
- Intentionally Designed: Bring math concepts into the three-dimensional world with TouchMath manipulatives perfectly sized to compliment student activity sheets.
- Deepen and Retain: TouchMath manipulatives are proven to deepen understanding and increase skill retention.
Standards-Aligned
- Comprehensive: TouchMath curriculum aligned to all U.S. state and extended standards.
- Equitable: Provide equitable access to standards-based instruction differentiated to meet the diverse and unique needs of all students.
- Correlations: TouchMath is "Easy to Teach and Easy to Learn", thoughtfully designed to supplement and correlate with core math programs.
Data-Informed
- Drive Instruction: Use data from instruction and assessments to guide instruction, ensuring the diverse and unique needs of all students are met.
- Progress Monitoring: Aggregated data reports are available at the district, classroom, and student level.
- Assessments: Pre- and post-assessments are used to measure learning prior to, and immediately following, explicit instruction.
