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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I learned the dot (touch) method in '98..but I'd say my teacher at the time was rather old fashioned.  I noticed I was slower than my peers throughout school, but there are certain instances where I've found it to be an advantage.  I was able to make it through calculus despite being taught this way, so it isn't necessarily a dead end way of learning.[/quote]

I was a poster on this thread when it first started; I posted that I had been taught to count dots on numerals to add (i.e. Touch Math!)

I hadn't read the 9 posts from the "Dot Math" defender... but I just did.  I'd like to point out that the type of instruction called "Dot Math" seems to be very different from what people are calling it.

http://modeling.asu.edu/CIMM/CIMM-sampleLesson.htm

Dot Math looks fine -- it seems very similar actually to the Singapore Math Part-Whole model.  Do not fear to lear and use Dot Math,

Touch Math where you touch dots on the the number 7 and count them, then touch dots on the number eight and add on -- is the problem.

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