I know it’s silly, but I’ve seriously always wanted an Estimation Station for our school room! I mean how fun! We participate in a monthly Boy’s Lego club and Science day. Each month our host has a little jar filled with something that the kids get to estimate. Whoever is closest wins the jar, which usually has something totally fun like M&M’s in it!
And wouldn’t you know it, the awesome people at Educational Insights just happened to have one of these bad boys for us to review! This one is so cool, it even comes with a little cup that you can fill so the kids can really use some actual math skills to help them estimate how much the whole station holds.
Obviously ours has Lego’s in it. Aside from school use, we used our Estimation Station at my son’s Lego birthday party this summer too. We had all the boys guess the amount of Lego’s inside and then the winner received a fun Lego set!
The possibilities are endless here, and the kids get so excited when they see a new one show up in our school room! I am going to try and do a new one each week for them. And it’s great for logical thinking, addition, and multiplication skill building too! And with the estimation cup, your students can use some more precise logical mathematical estimation skills instead of just guessing.
Want more info? Visit the Educational Insights links below, if you stop by let them know that Erica @ Confessions sent you over!
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Now you KNOW that Educational Insights is offering a FREE Estimation Station to one of my readers! So if you’re interested, keep reading!
Mandatory Entry:
- Simply leave a comment below letting me know why you’d like to win an Estimation Station from Educational Insights.
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Enter to win an @ed_insights Estimation Station from @ericahomeschool! Enter thru 12/30/11! http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/?p=4239
Nitty Gritty Giveaway Details:
- The give away will be open until midnight EST Friday December 30, 2011. Winner will be announced by Monday January 2, 2011.
- No purchase necessary to win.
- Void where prohibited by law.
- Must be 18 years of age or older.
- If prize winner forfeits or does not claim prize, prize will be re-awarded at my sole discretion.
- Make sure to leave a separate comment for each entry, winner will be chosen at random!
- This giveaway is offered to US & Canada residents only!
- Odds of winning based on number of entries.
- This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.
- NOTE: In order to enter the contest you must leave a comment on my blog post. To leave a comment scroll to the bottom of the post and fill in the “Speak Your Mind” form (If you are reading this via RSS, you will need to visit my actual blog to post a comment.)
- Disclosure: Educational Insights provided with free Estimation Station for review on my blog. The opinions I have given are mine and may differ from others but were not influenced by the company or the free product provided.
This would bring a fun approach to enhancing our estimation skills.
This would be so much fun to add to our school room =) Thanks!
I would love to add this to our school room!!
This would come in handy for our schoolroom!
It would be a great addition to our math related materials, and I can see it being used a lot, since my kids LOVE our Estimation Guessing Games that we often play using everyday items around us.
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How fun! My kiddos would love that at school.
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This is just so cute! Leave it to Educational Insights to come up with it! LOVE their products.
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Angie
We are going to start homeschooling next year and we would love to be able to use it! Thanks!
Jill
How cool! would love to win!!
What a fun way to get kids interested in the application of math skills they’re learning!
Would love it!
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What a fun way to incorporate some extra math into our day!!
Such a fun way for us to bring more math into the home!!
Wow, I’m excited about this math tool. So much fun and so much learning!
Love it! The extra cup to aid in estimating is such an awesome idea!
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My kids would love this!
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This would be great to help my boys with their math, and I’m sure it would be used with Legos in our home too
I would love to begin work on estimation with our boys.
This would be great to help start our classroom!
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I am starting homeschooling next year, and I would love to have this to add to our collection of fun homeschooling items!
We are just getting started homeschooling and need to build up a good supply of quality learning tools; this would be perfect! Thanks for the opportunity!
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Follow them on Twitter! About to check out the sale, too – thanks again!
More math! Yay!
This is something I would never have thought of! Cool!
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I have had this on my wish list for awhile now and would love to win! I’d like to possibly add to calendar time or just to use with our math.
I would love to get the Estimation Station for my kids’ schoolroom. Thanks.
I should do more estimation! This would be fun and handy to have.
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I am now following them on Twitter. What a great company.
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I think my kids would love this! It would make estimating more fun!
This would be great for school or fun!
I would love this in my classroom. It would definitely enhance our math exploration!
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This would be great way to get some extra math in our day
My son and I would love this for our homeschool classroom.
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love this! hope I win!
What a fun way to teach a difficult concept. I would love to add this to our new schoolroom.
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My kids love to estimate( and the fun candy, grapes,baby carrots ect. that they get to eat)!!
we do an estimation activity every Friday, this would be a great asset!
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I would *LOVE* to win this for my boys! Neither one understands estimation despite my, apparently not so great, efforts
I hope something like this will help them!
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I would love to win this.
WOW, i know this would definitely be of great use in our classroom! thank you for the opportunity to win, Erica.
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Oh what fun!! Our old library used to have a month contest of this kind and my girls loved guessing how many jelly beans, M&Ms etc were inside. I think this would be a great tool to have in our school room! Thanks so much for the chance to win it!!
love the concept. my kiddos would love it.
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This looks like so much fun! I would love to win this to help our sons learn about estimating, and the Lego idea is awesome! Thanks!
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How adorable. My kids would love this.
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I would love to get this, estimation is one of my weaknesses also, I would love for my children to be better at this skill!
How cool! I’d love to have this for our school room as well. Would make a fun incentive as well!
This looks like a fun math tool! We would love to have it for school!
This would be a really fun way to start working with multiplication skills. I love this idea as a fun homeschool activity.
How fun! My son loves guessing how many things are in jars. I know he would absolutely love to have this in our school area.
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This would be so awesome to use in our homeschooling studies plus for use at the home schooling co-op we attend 2X/Month…I too can see the varied uses!!
What a cool estimation station! The kids and I would love it!!!
math is not my area of teaching (lol I was an english major in college!) so any thing math oriented is always a plus for me with the kids. I would love to win this for our school room
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I have never even heard of this, but now I would LOVE it! What a creative idea! I just started homeschooling two years ago and this is just another example of why it is so FUN!
This would be fun to use with all sorts of items… math and fun at the same time
My sons have struggled a little with estimation so this would be a fun way to teach them.
This would be a fun learning tool for our homeschool room!
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My son LOVES numbers and counting. I bet he’d have a blast with this!
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This would be so much fun!!! In the classroom, birthday parties, youth group parties, Christmas parties,……wow…….I can think of several places to take this!! My kids would LOVE this….We would All love this!!! Thanks!!
This would jump start our math skills at home.
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I woul love too add this to our school room:) how fun!! Thanks
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I homeschooled my sons before it was “popular” . They are 32 and 28 years old now. I want to help fill my grandchildren’s schoolrooms with fun learning aids that might not be essentials that fit the curriculum budget but would be nice additions!
We haven’t done much in the past with estimation, a skill we definitely need work on. (Out of sight, out of mind.) Having the estimation station would be a great visual out in the forefront. Thank you for the possibilities.
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I would use it in my classroom and at home with my daughter.
I would use this every week without fail. What a great idea!
What a fun math tool!!!!! We’d LOVE to win it for our school room!
My boys would love this fun math tool!
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Hi!
I’ve always had trouble getting my kindergarteners to make reasonable estimations. Now they are a bit more mature and this items looks like a great fun way to practice estimation with them. The Estimation Station would be a great addition to our classroom. Thanks for the opportunity to preview this product and a chance to win one too!
Carol
Would really like to give this to my mother.
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This would be so fun to use for math skills and simply developing brainstorming.
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This would be really fun to use for math.
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This would be a nice addition to our homeschool!
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I would love to win this for my classroom! We talk about estimation a LOT and my students love it! Currently our estimation station consists of 3 jars filled with pom poms, which is great, but I know my students would be thrilled with something a bit more “official” plus I love the idea of using the cup to help them go beyond guessing and actually use number sense to estimate!
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What a great way to improve my kids’ logical thinking.
I would love to use this in our homeschooling!
I am already a fan of EI on FB!
My kids love estimating contests! They do them at the library but, we would love to have one for our school room!
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I would love to have this to use at the homeschool group I am in charge of. The children would really like it.
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THis would be great to add to our school room!
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Looks like fun. This would be a wonderful added addition to our classroom.
This looks like a fun math tool! We’d love to win.
We would love to add this to our schoolroom!
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My kids would LOVE this! It would be a great addition to our schoolroom!
I’d love an estimation station! Please leave ideas of how you used it!
this is an awesome idea and something my girls love to do!
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I think this would be so much fun for the entire family!
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I’d love to win an Estimation Station from Educational Insights! Thanks for the giveaway!!
Oh, I would SO love to have this for our homeschool! My daughter would love it, and I am really looking for more hands-on fun math things to do with her.
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I’d love to win this to start teaching estimation to my kindergartener.
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this is a neat idea to add to our homeschooling..great way to improve on estimation skills.