The focus in this review is to investigate the effectiveness of the TouchMath program in helping pupils master basic numeracy skills and mathematical calculations. There is also an aim to investigate the efficiency in a perspective of time, both in achieving results, and concerning the development of the method. The results presented is based on systematic literature reviews.

Our review is a quantitative research made by compiling studies, conducted from 1973–2019, showing if and how the effectiveness of TouchMath consists over time, both in history and in children’s calculation ability. There is a total of nine studies chosen from their focus on the effectiveness of the TouchMath program. The studies were found by a combination of systematic searches in the databases Primo, ERIC (ProQuest) and Google Scholar and explorative searches through findings of references in other studies. After reading the studies in full, a survey was made to create an overview of the field.

Regardless of time and a steady progress within the method itself, including a continued work following the basic numeracy exercises concerning all four modes of computation, TouchMath is still showing the same positive results.