A review of the articles about TouchMath

Abstract

According to literature, traditional instruction methods remained insufficient in teaching the mathematics skills to the students with special needs. Therefore multi sensory teaching methods must be used in teaching mathematics skills to the students with special needs. TouchMath is a one of the multisensory teaching techniques which is used to teach the mathematics skills especially number sense and four operations skills. The aim of this study is to analyse the studies using TouchMath. In this study the international databases were scanned and 27 articles were found from the databases. The articles were analysized according to their research models, participants, dependence variables and weather using reliability, social validity, generalization, and maintenence datas. Finally the findings obtained from the articles were discussed and reported. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.