Bongo Balance

What is it

Bongo Balance is a jungle themed app that aims to teach the fundamentals of balancing equations by having them settle feuds between tribal monkey clans.

Players are shown an ‘equation’ of fruit clusters, with one monkey tribe representing the left of the equation and the other tribe representing the right side. Players add and subtract clusters of fruit on each side to bring the amount of fruit into balance, just like with atoms in a chemical equation.

The equations get harder to balance as the children progress; it advances from fruit to actual chemical symbols.

Tested on an iPad

What our experts think

Bongo Balance is an fantastically educational app that provides a brilliant introduction to the world of balancing equations. The app made our testers think and encouraged logical and mathematical thinking…and perseverance! The jungle theme and the ‘groovy’ music were also very popular.

We really liked the way in which the app started off using fruit and then progressed to balancing equations involving symbols.  This was a great way to get children to look at  the relationship between numbers.

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It would have been good to have a hint button so that if children got stuck, they had an option to get some help and not just give up.