Common Sense Media Review
By Amanda Bindel
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Wild recipes add up to math fun, with hybrid toys or not.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 4+?
Any Positive Content?
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Tiggly Chef: Preschool Math Cooking Game
What's It About?
The Master Chef in TIGGLY CHEF: PRESCHOOL MATH COOKING GAME helps kids learn to be great chefs, guiding them through three levels of math games, each progressively more challenging. Kids start by following instructions and counting items to add to a bowl. They can add items with their fingers -- tapping each item individually or using several fingers to select several at once -- or use the Tiggly Counters. The second and third levels have kids following wacky recipes to create dishes such as "hot shrimp apple twist." Kids then eat the item by tapping it and record their descriptions of how each concoction tasted.
Is It Any Good?
Hybrid toys are exciting and new, but users may be disappointed: It's tricky for little hands to get the toys lined up just right, and they don't reliably register on the device. Fortunately, the whole experience works great using fingers, so kids can switch modes mid-game (or play the free app even without the toys, at least at the time of review.) Kids can tap multiple objects at once, using several fingers, so they can work on adding one by simply tapping with one finger or adding multiples by tapping with two or three fingers. Consider taking the app on a free test drive to see if your kid is into it, and then you can try the toys as an extension, because when they work, they're fun!
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about their favorite wacky food combinations or ask each other "Would you eat it?" when each food creation is shown.
Outside the app, parents can talk to kids about numbers and different ways to add and subtract to get a number. For example, if a kid has six berries on his plate for snack, show him how four and two make six, or five and one, or three and three.
App Details
- Devices : iPad , Kindle Fire
- Subjects : Math : addition , arithmetic , counting
- Skills : Thinking & Reasoning : memorization , problem solving , thinking critically , Creativity : imagination , Tech Skills : using and applying technology
- Pricing structure : Free (Play can be enhanced with the Tiggly Counts counter toys which retail for about $29.99.)
- Release date : January 22, 2015
- Genre : Education
- Topics : Cooking , Numbers and Letters
- Publisher : Tiggly
- Version : 1.1
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 5.1.1 or later; Android 3.0 and up
- Last updated : October 1, 2025
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