Teaching with Touch Points

 

Many special educators are still struggling with locating a well-adapted math curriculum for students with IEPs, who can't really access the general ed curriculum. 

Touch Math has been around for a long time. This is a highly sensory-based teaching approach for struggling students. This alone doesn't solve the problem knowing the individual needs of students with IEPs. Currently, this is my "starter kit" for Math in my self-contained autism-specific class. 

And, I also use several other different computer-based curricula as supplements.  MobyMax and IXL have been great- 

Start with memorizing where each touchpoint is on the number. Here is the Practice kit to start with.