Tiggly Chef: Math Cooking Game

Learn early addition concepts while helping Chef prepare over 40 dishes.

***Tillywig Brain Child 2014 Award Winning App*** (enhanced by Tiggly Counts)

Welcome to the silliest kitchen in Tiggly Town! Learn early addition concepts and think flexibly about numbers while helping Chef prepare his signature Spicy Hula Monkey Cake, and over 40 other outrageous dishes.

Tiggly Town’s greatest, most mustachioed Chef tells you what he needs to prepare his preposterously silly recipes, and you help by adding the exact number of ingredients Chef asks for to get the recipe right. You can even suggest your own recipes to Chef. While ingredients are added, mathematics symbols appear on screen explaining your actions, helping you naturally learn numbers and early addition concepts; surely Chef will encourage you to follow instructions and think flexibly! Tiggly Chef is a math learning game recommended for ages 3 and up.

FEATURES

- 3 kitchens, each with 15 unique ingredients (kiwi, lemon slices, and more)

- 45 surprising dishes with hilarious names like Blushing Radish Hootenanny

- Each kitchen challenges you at a higher level of difficulty

- Create your own kooky culinary concoctions

- Critique Chef’s dishes and save your voice in the recipe book

- No third party advertising

- No in-app purchases

CONNECTING INTUITIVE TO FORMAL MATH

Every child has an intuitive conception of the addition operation. In fact, children often practice addition in their everyday play, when they eat, or when they help in the kitchen. Tiggly Chef aims to help children synthesize their “spontaneous concepts” (everyday math) with “scientific concepts” (the organized, formal mathematics that schools try to teach).

- Tiggly Chef mathematizes your child’s actions in the kitchen and introduces them to math symbols such as numerals, +, and = signs in a meaningful and playful way

- Tiggly Chef is designed to challenge not bore; be playful not mindless; generate meaningful learning rather than rote memorization

THINK FLEXIBLY

- Tiggly Chef encourages your child to think flexibly about numbers and arrive at the answer in many different ways. e.g. To add 5 strawberries to the bowl, you can add 1 and 4; 4 and 1; 2 and 3; 3 and 2; five 1s; or two 1s and 3. Can you think of any other way?

DESIGNING MATH PROBLEMS

- Your child can come up with their own instructions and math problems by designing custom recipes. They decide what ingredients they would like to add and how many of each ingredient is needed.

>> Kids love Tiggly Chef as a standalone learning app, but better yet enhance your child’s learning with Tiggly Counts physical toys (sold separately).

- Tiggly Counts are five counting toys, safe for your child and your tablet, that physically interact with three parent- and educator-approved learning apps for tablets – including Tiggly Chef, Tiggly Addventure, and Tiggly Cardtoons.

- Inspired by the classic Cuisenaire rods used in Montessori classrooms, Tiggly Counts is a revolutionary math learning toy for kids in the digital age.

- Lightweight and easily grasped in small hands, Tiggly Counts helps young learners understand the relationships between numbers concretely and spatially.

ABOUT TIGGLY

The Tiggly team is made up of PhDs, MBAs, parents, grandparents, uncles, and aunts who want to help parents introduce their children to the digital world in an easy yet educational way. Our educator-designed tablet toys interact with our learning apps because we believe there is a powerful learning opportunity in the combination of physical and digital play. Children explore mathematical concepts and numerical relations by manipulating physical number blocks while playing in wonderful digital worlds that stretch their imagination and spark their creativity. Our team collaborates with Grammy and Emmy-award winning creative talent to craft products that parents and children both love. Tiggly products are available in 20+ countries and in more than 300 Apple Store locations across four continents, in addition to specialty retailers worldwide.