Approximate accounting of spin correlations in the Ising model

The expressions for average products of three neighboring spins in the Ising model have been found on lattices with coordination numbers 3 and 4 as functions of temperature and spontaneous magnetization. These expressions are used to compare the exact solution for the Ising model on a square lattice and the solutions found by approximate methods. A method of improving approximate methods is proposed for applying, in particular, to the Bethe approximation and to a change in the critical index of the temperature dependence of the spontaneous magnetization.