TouchMath is a multisensory approach to teaching mathematics to struggling students. Using our exclusive science-based and research-backed methodology, students can use the numeral itself as a manipulative and make the transition from Concrete to Representational to Abstract — C-R-A — understanding.<br>
Every numeral from one through nine has TouchPoints corresponding to the digit’s value. Numerals one through five have single TouchPoints. Numerals six through nine have double TouchPoints. Students count aloud as they touch the single TouchPoints once and double TouchPoints twice. The numeral zero has no TouchPoints and is never touched or counted. This concrete approach engages students on auditory, visual, and tactile-kinesthetic levels.<br>
To ensure that students arrive at the right answer, it is important that they touch the TouchPoints in the correct Touching-Counting Pattern for each numeral.<br>
When we do math — whether completing calculations or determining the best way to solve a problem — we use multiple areas of our brain, including those that involve our senses and motor system.