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According to the American Statistical Association, "Effective prediction is essential to improving medicine; monitoring climate; providing sufficient, safe food supplies; and much more." To make educated predictions as adults, children need to understand probability -- and start learning about it at an early age. Prediction is an adult skill used in many professional fields, including science, medicine, finance, and insurance. Underlying prediction is the notion of probability: whether a given event is certain to happen, likely, unlikely, or impossible.