Schools in Boston have discarded the widely used but distorted map of the world in a bid to give children a more accurate depiction of the world. Social studies teachers in the public schools in ...
Students throughout Boston are getting a radically different view of the world, one laminated 24-by-36-inch sheet of paper at a time. Beginning last Thursday, Boston Public Schools administrators have ...
Our world does not look like the map on the wall of the classrooms you grew up in.In order to flatten the spherical globe onto a flat map, cartographers had to make adjustments to the sizes of the ...
AMHERST — Classrooms in Boston’s public schools will soon be using world maps that show land masses of correct size, supplementing what school officials view as traditional, Eurocentric centuries-old ...
The most widely used map in the U.S. today is the Mercator projection map. Mercator maps often appear in businesses, in libraries and in classrooms where geography is taught. This popularity is ...
The Gall-Peters projection was created by James Gall and Arno Peters in 1855. Date of map: August 15, 2011 Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium ...