Educational toy mailbox

Claim 1

An educational toy for developing understanding of the relationship of larger and smaller numbers to physical size and to one another, comprising: a body having individual numbered compartments therein, each said individual numbered compartment having an access door bearing a number assigned to said individual numbered compartment and a deposit hole identified with said number assigned to said individual numbered compartment with which it communicates, each said deposit hole being of an unique shape and size so that an object of correct shape and size fits into one said deposit hole but not into any other said deposit hole, the size of each said deposit hole corresponding to said number assigned to said individual numbered compartment with which it communicates so that said deposit holes associated with successively lower-numbered said individual numbered compartments are successively smaller, while said deposit holes associated with successively higher-numbered said individual numbered compartments are successively larger, and a set of deposit objects, each having a number and an unique shape and size corresponding to said number and said unique shape and size of one of said deposit holes so that each said deposit object fits into only one said deposit hole identified with a matching number, thereby developing children's understanding of the relationship of larger and smaller numbers to physical size and to one another.