Using Touch Math to Improve Computations

The purpose of this paper is to share the results of a 1-week intervention that focused on the effects of simply teaching basic touch math to third grade students in an effort to increase their speed and accuracy in computation. For the purposes of this study, it focused on computations of single digit addition and subtraction and up to three or four digits in addition and subtraction with and without regrouping. Introduction and Intention I am a third grade teacher in a suburban elementary school that is part of a city school system in the Piedmont of North Carolina. The school’s families range from upper-middle class to poverty level incomes, with about 64 % of the school’s studen