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With the holidays fast approaching, there are so many wonderful options for gifts from Educational Insights. Today I’m featuring a product that helps promote math and logic skills. It’s called Estimation Station. What I love about this product (and what I’m consistently finding with most every Educational Insights product) is that it’s not a one-hit wonder. There are over a week’s worth of activity suggestions with this one product, including estimation, counting, place value, comparing and ordering number, making prediction, graphing, statistics and mathematical reasoning. That’s a lot of awesome concepts to derive from one toy!
Darah is still a bit too young to use this toy, as it is ideal for ages 5-9. When we introduce it to her, though, we can start with larger objects (like giant marshmallows!) and build up from there. I absolutely love this hands-on application of mathematical concepts. This can even be a really creative way to have kids put a little bit of work in prior to getting a special treat, like gumballs or jelly beans. Estimation Station retails for $14.99 and really does bring math to life in an exciting way for young children.
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I received a complimentary product for review purposes. All thoughts and opinions expressed here are strictly my own.
m & ms
Candy corn for Halloween or M&Ms
I would fill it with peanuts.
M&M’s or jellybeans
gumballs
I would use my childrens favorite m&ms
we use m&ms
I would fill it with Jelly beans
candy of different sizes and toys, like legos
i think M&Ms would be a good idea
I think MM or skittles
hmm I would be very tempted to eat them though 
I’d use gummy bears!
Would coins work? Then you could have 2 math games
I would put M&M’s . I think this is a great learning tool for kids!
I’d probably use jelly beans or skittles.
m&m’s. This is such an awesome idea.
I’d use M&Ms
I would put marbles inside the estimation station.
Fruit Loops Cereal
i think my son and i would go collect up acorns and use them
I’d do jelly beans.
I would put grapes in it!
Marbles or Jelly Beans !!
Skittles! Thanks for the chance to win!
Cotton balls!
I would use jellybeans.
I would put marbles in there.
Cotton balls.
Cheerios!
I would use buttons.
i would m&m in them
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m&m’s
je;;ybeans
grapes
acorns, nuts, other things we’ve found outside.
BUTTONS would be fun!
jellybeans
Maybe mini-marshmallows.
I think in our house we’d end up doing everything from peanuts to gumdrops to marshmallows to trail mix and back!
I would put in M&M’s or mini cookies.
I would put candy corn or m and ms
The options are endless! You could put anything in there depending on the season! Right now…candy corn
jelly beans!!!
I would put penny’s in.
We have all different sized beads and I think it would be cool to see how many of each kind fit!
finding fun things to fill it up would be fun for me so I would get to play too!
Marbles, pebbles, trail mix, paperclips, rubber bands, pasta, toys…. great toy!
Marbles
We’d use JElly beans
little bouncy balls
Cheerios.
For a young child, I’d put new potatoes inside!
I’m a candy junkie so we better go with peanuts!
Jellybeans or rotini pasta.
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resses or m&ms
M&M’s or Hershey Kisses.
organic lollipops
I would put my twins’ squinkies in. They’ve got a pile of them!
Jellybeans or Cheerios
Lots of things!! Things that are different sizes like rocks, hard candies, buttons and legos,! And things that are the same size like pixie sticks, skittles, qtips, sixlets, and bouncy balls!
jellybeans
M&m’s or mini marshmallows
Kidney beans ~
M&M’s or jellybeans but definitely like the marshmallow idea!
I think we need to estimate some candy corn!
I would use m&m’s.
M&M’s for sure. Thanks for the cool giveaway!
I would put gumballs in it.
m&m’s
M&Ms, Starbursts, bottle caps… could come up with lots of objects from around the house to put in there!
I think beans.
I would use bouncy balls.
BEANS
I would fill it with Legos.
I would use jellybeans debbie jackson
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Sea shells!
I’d put in cheerios or gummy bears or small rocks.
all sorts of things. paperclips, marshmallows, erasers, chocolate covered raisins, jelly beans, m&m’s
gum balls or marbles
candy
I would use marbles
pennies.
M&Ms
Yum! I’d be so tempted to eat them all, though!
Guess that would make estimating a bit easier if there weren’t many in the container!
some sort of snack or candy!
Marshmallows sounds fun! Small tootsie rolls would work too.
jelly beans.
Cotton Balls
I love your idea of marshmallows. My little one would be excited to see some cars in there to estimate!