News: 95 Percent Group is acquiring TouchMath
The science of math joins the science of reading! 95 Percent Group is acquiring TouchMath, a company with a 50-year legacy of supporting educators with explicit, evidence-based, multisensory math instruction.
Dear Educators and Friends,
We have exciting news to share: The science of math has arrived at 95 Percent Group! We are acquiring TouchMath, a company with a 50-year legacy of supporting explicit, evidence-based, multisensory math instruction.
Together our mission-aligned companies will operate under the 95 Percent Group name and serve as the go-to resource for trusted, proven foundational skills solutions for literacy and math—that empower educators to unlock academic success for every child. Research shows strong literacy skills support higher math achievement—and the time is now to strengthen this connection and accelerate learning progress.
Looking ahead, the customer experience will remain the same, as current school partners continue working with their existing TouchMath and 95 Percent Group teams. Over time we will have offerings that combine TouchMath programs with our literacy solutions and professional learning to create one continuum with foundational reading and foundational math sharing common instructional models, evidence standards, and coherent digital and print tools for public, private, and homeschool settings.
As always we remain a teacher-centric organization, dedicated to meeting your needs, responding to your feedback, and addressing the challenges of an evolving educational landscape. Every child deserves access to the high-quality instruction they require for success in school and in life—and together, we can make that happen.
Join us in celebrating this moment, reach out to your sales partner for more information, and stay tuned!
Best,
Brad Lindaas, CEO, 95 Percent Group
Laura Stewart, Chief Academic Officer, 95 Percent Group
Learn more about this new chapter at 95 Percent Group
95 Percent Group’s acquisition of TouchMath positions the company as the go-to resource for empowering educators with easy-to-use, effective solutions for foundational skills development, intervention, and assessment in literacy and math. The combined organization will operate under the 95 Percent Group name.
FAQs
Learn more with our set of frequently asked questions.
TouchMath is a leading provider of explicit, multisensory math programs designed to help students with learning challenges understand foundational math concepts. For more than 50 years, TouchMath has been on a mission of “empowering educators and supporting special student populations, especially those with learning challenges and disabilities, by providing evidence-based instructional programs and tools that ensure every student has the opportunity to succeed.”
TouchMath is an evidence-based, multisensory program that incorporates a unique, tactile counting technique. In an alternating-treatments study, middle school students in special education improved single-digit addition accuracy from 4% (baseline) to 92% using TouchMath, showcasing its effectiveness as a powerful tool for learners who require extra support. Available in digital and print, the TouchMath Solution empowers educational teams to assess, teach, report, and positively impact students across all settings. Learn more: touchmath.com/
95 Percent Group is an educational publishing and technology company whose mission is to build on science to empower teachers with the knowledge, resources, and support they need to develop strong readers. Using a structured-literacy approach, the company’s product ecosystem integrates proven resources and professional learning into one cohesive system across all tiers of instruction, delivering on the promise that, with evidence-based, evidence-aligned instruction, 95 percent or more of students can read. The company’s 2025 acquisition of All About Learning Press expanded 95 Percent Group into the homeschool and small private school learning market with evidence-based literacy and math offerings.
TouchMath offers the perfect complement to our evidence-based literacy offerings. 95 Percent Group will now be able to provide schools and districts with a compelling, intensive intervention math offering and wraparound professional learning services, alongside our product ecosystem. Over time, we will work to further develop and integrate our product offerings with a focus on how we can best support our school partners in these two critical areas of learning. We aim to equip educators with one continuum with foundational reading and foundational math sharing common instructional models, evidence standards, and coherent digital and print tools, across public, private, and homeschool settings.
95 Percent Group and TouchMath customers will continue ordering and using products exactly as they do today. We will work along a carefully planned and intentionally sequenced timeline as we integrate our companies and share our combined offerings with our customers. With our combined teams from 95 Percent Group and TouchMath, we are more than 220 employees strong, ready to serve our growing customer base of more than 5,000 school districts across the U.S.
Yes. Our goal for back-to-school 2027 is to offer a unified platform that integrates evidence-based reading and math curricula, assessments, and professional learning resources. This approach meets the growing demand for cohesive solutions across core, intervention, and special education. By bridging the gap between literacy and math, and traditional and digital tools, 95 Percent Group will be uniquely positioned to address the national urgency for foundational skills resources that align to research and accelerate learning progress for students across Tiers 1–3.
TouchMath leverages evidence-based strategies that provide systematic and explicit math instruction for students with dyscalculia and other math challenges. Together we will offer high-quality, trusted literacy and math instruction that accelerate student learning progress across tiers of instruction.
As one united company, we will also have greater strength and reason to believe that we can uniquely help address the urgent crisis of declining math and literacy scores in American education. Together, we are ready to lead education into a future where every child has access to the high-quality instruction they require for success in school and in life.
95 Percent Group has no plans to change its current offerings and customer experience. Over time 95 Percent Group will be able to offer customers an expanded set of offerings that empower teachers—supplying the knowledge, resources, and support they need—to develop strong learners, in both literacy and math.
The data is clear—and concerning. Too many students across the country are not meeting grade-level expectations in reading and math. Successful learning outcomes are rooted in the same principles of instruction in math as they are in literacy, and successful, systemic educational change has the same requirements across every area of learning: clarity on what to teach, how to teach, how students learn, and how schools sustain success. With 20 years of experience in educational change, 95 Percent Group empowers educators with the science-based knowledge, resources, and support they need to accelerate progress for every child.
Great question! If you’re a customer of 95 Percent Group or TouchMath, please contact your current sales partner with any questions you have. If you’re interested in partnering with us now or in the future, please visit our contact page. If you’re a member of the media, please contact Jenny Barker, jbarker@95percentgroup.com.