CozyBomB™ Monkey Scale Balance Toy, Number Counting Math Games

This is a great toy. Our two year old loved just putting the monkeys into the containers. It looks like every monkey has the value of1 and each number is incrementally heavier so kids really learn to create equations, even if they don’t know what they did.

Excellent product! My 5 year old is doing adding (and subtraction even though subtraction cards are not included) without realizing it. The green cards are level 1/simple difficulty and show the number and frogs needed to balance. The purple cards are level 2/medium difficulty and show either the amount of frogs OR an actual number and then you have find the number to balance yourself. The blue cards are level 3/complex difficulty and use the amount of frogs and numbers to do addition. The plastic numbers and frogs are really sturdy. The balance works really well but can fall over rather easily if used on a surface that's not completely hard, like carpet or a bed. I recently had surgery so we were using the product on a bed. It does still balance well on softer surfaces though. My only complaint about this product is that the cards are really thin and flimsy, so I imagine that they will get ripped or bent fairly quickly with a young child using them. That being said, I don't think the flimsy cards are a reason to not buy this product. It's fantastic for use in teaching math concepts. I do recommend laminating the cards or putting clear tape over them to reinforce them.

Perfect fun learning toy

I really like the concept. It’s a cool product BUTTTT, I’d be very careful to have this around any children that puts things in their mouth because one of the numbers fell and broke open exposing these little balls.

I have a little nephew who loves holding little things in his hands, and is the type of kid to prefer a book over an RC car. This seemed like a perfect birthday gift idea to help him get his math skills down. He was a little confused at first, but caught on quick to how it works. I didn't expect it to be a favorite toy when compared to the other things he got, but the next day when we came downstairs, he had pulled out this game and was playing around with it on his own, balancing his monkeys. Though he got reeeaaalll confused when he put the big "1" and the "5" on one side, and didn't understand why 15 monkeys didn't balance the scale lol... Overall pretty good build quality, especially for the price. The scale bar is a little wobbly, but probably needed for proper balance. It's stood up to him putting it together and pulling it apart several times. I'd say the only thing that was a bummer was the packaging... For some reason the images on the sides of the box are mirrored, so the text is backwards. It's a minor thing, but does give off a feeling of cheapness, which you don't want when giving a gift.

I waited til towards the end of the year to buy this as I work with 2,3, and 4 year olds and they weren't ready til then to comprehend if you put the number 10 on one side of the scale you need 10 frogs on the other side to balance it out. Nor were they ready to put a 2 and a 3 on one side and therefore would need to put 5 frogs on the other side. But the day I brought it out, was a real eye opener for them and off to the races they went!!!! They not only loved it but were actually able to add number together and put the correct number of frogs to balance it out. I read other reviews that said it didn't balance correctly. Never had a problem with the balance and it was used non stop. Am looking into buying a few more as one for 17 kids is just not enough.

I gifted this to my two 4 year old grandchildren for their birthdays. It is an excellent manipulative for learning math skills in many different ways. Grand-kids loved it! The only downsides are keeping track of all the small monkeys and fitting everything back into the box for storage neither of which deters me from highly recommending. One other note: we were a little confused at first when looking at the accompanying cards. Some have equations on one side with numbers on the back which we at first thought to be incorrect answers to the equation on opposite side. We figured out, however, that the two sides of the card are not related to each other and are color coded to help distinguish competency levels for player(s). The cards are not necessary for play but can be extremely helpful in learning number recognition. This is a game kids can play on their own or with others.

Got this for my 2 almost 3 yro and she loves it! She is learning to count and recognize numbers !

The monkeys cannot stand very well, keep falling as shown

My daughter is playing this with No cards now. Very disappointed because it’s boring for her.

Mi jiho se entretiene mucho juega y aprende le llama mucho la atención.