Rui Ma(@ruima):The top comments on this post are super depressing. Not only are there a ton of folks defending this method of "teaching math," they literally say that this is how they were taught. If you look up this TouchMath method, it's pretty much only in the US. Guess why? Because it's a copyrighted method. A teacher came up with it, commercialized it, and aggressively markets this to thousands of districts. Guess what other countries use? Oh, they also use physical manipulatives, but it's things like abacuses and base 10 blocks, not ridiculous dot counting.

2026.10.30 00:27

The top comments on this post are super depressing. Not only are there a ton of folks defending this method of "teaching math," they literally say that this is how they were taught. If you look up this TouchMath method, it's pretty much only in the US. Guess why? Because it's a copyrighted method. A teacher came up with it, commercialized it, and aggressively markets this to thousands of districts. Guess what other countries use? Oh, they also use physical manipulatives, but it's things like abacuses and base 10 blocks, not ridiculous dot counting.

Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes

2026.10.29 13:15

I’m now convinced our kids are being intentionally setup to fail by our education system American parent has her child show the new way they are being taught to do math This is the most insane thing you’ll ever see. You just need to see this for yourself…. Apparently this is called TouchMath and instead of doing math, you just count dots on letters No Math is being done here