The final candy bar graph, with my 11-year-old recoding the tallies in her journal and calculating their value

And we have now progressed from data analysis to policy recommendations.

I told her that we'd calculate the cash value of her candy haul, that I'd ask her to raid her piggy bank and donate 1/3 the candy cash value to a local food bank, and that I'd add on a 5X match.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

So appreciate this. Thank you for doing it.

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Agree with this. I get a lot done in just a few hours. One thing that helps me is to commit to not leaving until XYZ is done (though, a reasonable and flexible goal matters!)