Popular Playthings Monkey Math Game: Simple Addition Game for Kids, Ages 4+

I bought this for my 4 yr old grandson who starts school in September to help with Maths. He absolutely loves it. Well worth the money

This is a fun game to teach kids addition and subtraction. My son (4) loves to play with this game on his own, trying to make the monkey's eyes straight, and with me. When playing with me, we try to "trick" each other by putting up multiple groups of bananas and the other one tries to match up with the same amount. There are two each of 1-5, and then one each of 6-10. The packaging is nice too, and you can get all of the bananas back in (they go in numerical order, so its an extra teaching moment while cleaning up) and the monkey in the plastic, and it fits nicely in the box. No lost pieces! My son also likes to sometimes play "catch the bananas" with this monkey, loading the monkey's arms with bananas and then flipping one arm until they all fly into the air. Not my favorite part, but he likes it.

My daughter picked this out of Rainbow Resources' catalog, probably because it involved monkeys!The game puts together very easily. The monkey is essentially a scale and your child needs to hang bunches of bananas on each of his arms to balance him out. They are perfectly calibrated to make this work every time...as long as both sides equal each other. And that's where the math comes in. My daughter is in first grade and is still learning her tens addition facts, so this toy was helpful and fun. Even her big brothers got a kick out of it. It is not something she would enjoy doing for a long time, as she lost interest...it's more the type of toy to pull out every once in awhile when math is getting boring. It's very durable, attractive and appealing to young children.

My 5-year-old loves this! I'm not sure it's actually a "game" per say, but it keeps him engaged for lengthy periods of time. He has fun with the balancing factor and is also quickly picking up the idea of fact families and how to balance simple equations. Great math tool for Kindergarten, and even our 2 and 6 year olds enjoy playing, too.

Simple balance beam game.