The Touchmath Program: A Summary

Wisniewski and Smith (2002) worked with four third and fourth graders with mild intellectual abilities or intellectual disabilities to determine the effectiveness of the TouchMath program demonstrated by the performance on Mad Minute timed assessment without the touch points. Students received direct instruction in a resource room for 3 to 3 ½ hours per day. The TouchMath curriculum was utilized for 20 minutes a day and the students were given a Mad Minute timed test on Fridays for progress monitoring. All students showed an increase in addition mathematic performance throughout the 14-week reporting period. It was noted that during the study, students missed a week of school due to Spring Break. Students with intellectual disabilities
tend to struggle with retaining information. All students, nonetheless, were able to continue with the TouchMath strategies after returning from the break.