This document discusses how to teach kindergarten students addition and subtraction skills using the Touch Math method. It describes using Touch Math for whole group instruction, mathematics centers, and worksheets. Touch Math uses touch points on numbers to help students understand quantities and engage in their own learning. The document provides examples and videos for teaching counting, addition, subtraction, and measuring using the Touch Math method and grids.

1. Learning How to Add in the Kindergarten
Classroom using Touch Math Skills
Created by: Brenda Mushlock
Touchy, Touch Math

2. Ms. Mushlock’s Classroom Use
 First used as whole group instruction unit
 Teacher will walk students through adding and
subtracting (single and double digits)
 Introduce mathematics center activities to be
used with TouchMath
 Incorporate TouchMath worksheets (already
purchased by district) with each Unit in the
program

3. About Touch Math
 Makes Math FUN!
 Adding Objects
 Gives meaning to numbers that students come to school
having memorized with no actual meaning for
 TouchPoints on the numbers engage students in their own
learning regardless of learning ability or style.
 “2 is not just a number; it is a concept, a quantity” states
Lisa Beck, founder of TouchMath.
“Touch Math: The Alphabet of Mathematics”. Innovative
Learning Concepts Inc. 2000.
http://www.touchmath.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=kinderga
rten.welcome . Viewed on June 25, 2013.

4. How to Use it
 Students begin by
entering Unit 1
 Easy steps of counting,
adding and subtracting
only up to 5
 Unit 2 consists of
progressing with skills up
to the number 9
 Unit 3 helps give meaning
to the numbers 1-20
 Unit 4 helps students with
measuring, data collection
and beginning geometry
skills
 Students are given index
cards with various
numbers on them
 The “3” will have three
objects or “dots” at each
reference point to
represent the number.
 Shows students a
concrete representation of
what the number stands
for.
 “Touch Math: The
Alphabet of Mathematics”.
Innovative Learning
Concepts Inc. 2000.
http://www.touchmath.com
/index.cfm?fuseaction=fre
estuff.welcome&gPage=5

5. Touch Math Grid
Each number has “touch points” for students to touch while counting the
numbers. Students are to touch dots TWICE when dots are placed inside of
each other as in numbers 6-9.
“Touch Math Grid”.
http://fciwypsc.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/touch_math_grid.jpg Viewed on
June 25, 2013.

6. Centers Activity with
PomPomsStudents are to place pompoms on touch math grid
which helps in creating meaning between number
shapes and amount of objects that correspond.

7. Touch Math Uses
Covers all Common
Core Standards for
Kindergarten Level!
Used for:
1. Counting (1-100)
2. One-to-One
Correspondence
3. Greater
Than/Less Than
4. Number
Sequencing
5. Adding with
Objects/Touch
Point Objects

8. Touch Math Addition Videos
 Touch Math Touching/Counting Patterns Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H_fdf-odsc
 Touch Math Addition Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q59Si-Uor2Q

9. Addition Practice

10. Addition Examples

11. Double Digit Addition
 Watch this Video
before completing
whole group task.
 “Touch Math First
Grade Software”.
Viewed on June
26, 2013.
http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=97V4CR
M8QWY

12. Subtraction Video and
Information
 Watch these videos on subtraction before
beginning the examples!
 Youtube Video: “TouchMath First Grade Software”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOdxdW4vhIQ.
Viewed on June 26, 2013.
 Visit this site and click on the video to watch before
completing whole group exerciese. “TouchMath
Subtraction”. We Are Teachers;
Ideas, Information, Inspiration. Viewed on June
26, 2013. http://www.weareteachers.com/lessons-
resources/details/touchmath-subtraction

13. Subtraction with Touch Math:
Examples

14. Double Digit Subtraction
 Click on this video
before completing
whole group activity on
double digit subtraction
(counting back)
 Fits with Common Core
Standards for K-1st
grade!
 Image from:
“TouchMath: Math
Teaching and Learning”.
www.touchmath.com
Viewed on June

15. Measuring with Touch Math
 View the site on TouchMath measuring using the
Teddy Bear Measurement activity. There are 10
questions for the students to go through! Have
fun!
 After viewing see centers activity in math centers
area. Use Bears, worms and marshmellows to
measure various items around classroom. Record
on printout.
 “Kids Maths Games- Elementary”.
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/measure.html

16. Interactive Sites with TouchMath
 Now lets put what you have learned to the test.
View these sites to add, subtract and measure
using the skills you have learned. Remember to
count on, count back and touch the designated
areas on the numbers if you need to. HAVE FUN!
 http://www.ixl.com/math/kindergarte
 Cool-math Games: Numbers http://www.coolmath-
games.com/1-number-games-addition-
subtraction.html

17. Additional Resources
 Touch Math Uses Page: Picture courtesy of “Touch Math:
The Alphabet of Mathematics”.
https://www.touchmath.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=allother
s.products&CATID=90&Pid=197. Viewed on June
25, 2013.
 Centers Activity Picture courtesy of: Brim, Shelee. “Math-
Touch Points”. Pinterest.
http://pinterest.com/pin/101331060337976515/. Viewed
on June 25, 2013.
 Addition Practice: “2 + 1”.
http://specializedreadingmathprograms.providence.wikispa
ces.net/file/view/Picture_3.png/102655529/Picture_3.png.
Viewed on June 26, 2013.
 Subtraction Practice: “Specialized Reading and Math
Programs”.
specializedreadingmathprograms.providence.wikispaces.n
et Viewed on June 26, 2013.