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Touch Math Addition Kit First Grade
Janet Bullock

Touch Math Addition Kit First Grade

Genre

  • Education Instruction Classroom

Subject

  • Academic Achievement
  • Children With Disabilities
  • Children With Mental Disabilities - Education
  • Children With Mental Disabilities/ Education
  • Developmental Disabilities
  • Education
  • Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General
  • Elementary Schools
  • Learning Disabled Children - Education
  • Mathematics
  • Mathematics/ Study And Teaching
  • Schools
  • Study Skills
  • Teaching - Aids And Devices

Plot

TouchMath: Forty Years of Turning Helplessness into Hope

More than five decades ago, I was an elementary school teacher searching for a better way to shepherd my students through beginning math –– a self-esteem robbing ordeal for far too many children.
Then came an idea. I placed counting points on numbers to help certain students understand how a symbol represents a quantity. To my delight, it clicked! This simple idea brought almost immediate results. I had discovered a new way to teach children the critical transition from concrete to symbolic learning. A new multisensory math was born—TouchMath!
Years of research and classroom testing followed, and TouchMath grew from a handful of basic activities to what is now an extensive family of hundreds of grade level programs, classroom aids, and technology. The materials cover counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, story problems, time, money and fractions — all at many different grade and ability levels.
Our mission has evolved from a focus on children with learning disabilities to programs for children of different aptitudes, learning styles, and cultures. Today, you can find TouchMath in all 50 states and in many foreign countries.
As different as they can be, all children have one very important desire in common: They want to learn. They want the right answer. They want to do their best. Our purpose is to not disappoint them.
TouchMath is unique, available only from Innovative Learning Concepts, and of course, unconditionally guaranteed to help your students succeed.
Thank you for your interest in TouchMath.
Janet Bullock
Founder, President and CEO
Innovative Learning Concepts Inc.

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Notes

Why is TouchMath effective with Special Education?
Has instructional scaffolds driven by student need, allows them to work at their pace.
Results in a deeper and richer understanding of mathematical concepts through a multisensory approach, going from the concrete to the representative, then to the abstract.
Students exhibit positive behavior frequently; pay attention more often; stay on task during instruction; and behave appropriately.
Specific programs in time and money provide real-world math applications while working on individual IEP goals and objectives.
Has raised test scores among students with learning differences and disabilities by as much as 25%.