Anyone know of a straightforward electronic maths toy??

[lilymum]

I want to get dd1 some kind of electronic maths toy for her 5th birthday, as she has recently become very interested in doing her sums and carries a small yellow calculator everywhere with her trying to figure things out on it, but everything I've seen looks complicated and expensive. I used to have a Little Professor when I was a nipper and was hoping for something easy to use like that, but I think everything is a bit more sophisticated these days. Does anyone have any recommendations?

We got my ds1 one for Xmas, he is 5 and he loves it. You can get an addition/subtraction one and a times table one i think. You can do sums or have it on question mode so it gives you a sum and you have to give the answer.

Wasn't expensive either, around a tenner.
Will see if I can find a link

they do them on amazon but am sure I bought it cheaper than this in sainsburys or somewhere.

If you google for "Twist and shout toy" loads come up.

Hope that helps.

leapfrog do something...they are called the 'twist and shout' range and a 'turbo twist' range. they are great. they do maths one and spelling ones/ go to www.leapfrog.com click on the 4 and up section. hth

leapfrog

Thanks. It's got to be simple or I won't know how to use it, let alone dd1!