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Furbles with year 2 and 3 activities

Age 5-7 (KS1)
Age 7-11 (KS2)

Furbles is a fun programme to teach statistics to primary children. Two versions are available to trial for free on the website. The worksheets below use 2003 version, but the graphing option on the Furbles '08 are more sophisticated.

Further information: http://www.ptolemy.co.uk/software/fur...



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Published 12 Nov 2008

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Year 2 Furbles

Year 2
Organising and using data
Solve a given problem by sorting classifying and organising information in simple ways such as in a pictogram.
Begin with 15 Furbles.
Restrict the colours to 3 and the eyes to 1.
Set the number of sides between 3 and 4.
Click the red arrow.
Ask the children to describe what they can see on the screen.
Can they name the shapes?
Can they count the Furbles by tagging them or moving them as they count?
Click on the foot icon at the bottom of the screen to move the Furbles randomly.
Ask the children to suggest a way to sort the Furbles and explain their rule.
Ask a child to sort them.
Count the Furbles in each group.
Which group has more?
Which group has fewer?
How many Furbles are there altogether?
Ask the children to arrange the Furbles in a pictogram according to their sort criteria by clicking and dragging.
Can they see more clearly now which

Year 3 Furbles 1

Year 3
Organising and using data
Solve a given problem by organising and interpreting numerical data in simple lists tables and graphs.
For example:
bar charts intervals labelled in ones
Click on the spanner icon at the bottom of the page.

You can you select the Furbles you want to use rather than having a random mixture.
Make sure you do not have more than 8 of any one feature so that the intervals on the bar chart will be labelled in ones.

Click the red arrow at the top right of the screen.
Ask the children to describe what they can see on the screen.
Can they name the shapes?
Say to the children that you think there are more three eyed Furbles than any other type and with so many Furbles sorting is quite slow. How else could you check?
Can the children remember how the program can sort the Furbles?
Click on the bar graph icon at

Year 3 Furbles 2

Year 3
Organising and using data
Solve a given problem by organising and interpreting numerical data in simple lists tables and graphs.
For example:
Bar charts intervals labelled in twos.
Click on the spanner icon at the bottom of the page.

You can you select the Furbles you want to use rather than having a random mixture.
Make sure you have more than 8 of at least one feature.
Click the red arrow at the top right of the screen.

Ask the children to describe what they can see on the screen.
Can they name the shapes?
Say to the children that you think there are more three eyed Furbles than any other type and with so many Furbles sorting is quite slow. How else could you check?
Can the children remember how the program can sort the Furbles?
Click on the bar graph icon at the bottom of the page.
Choose the select eyes and click the blue arrow.
The Furbles

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