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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1780/Untitled.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Classrooms in Boston to Get Different Kind of World Map' data-article-id='2297'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='10542'>Walk into most any classroom, and you will see a large world map hanging somewhere on the wall.</span> <span data-start-time='10542' data-end-time='18188'>Teachers use maps for subjects like geography and social studies.</span> <span data-start-time='18188' data-end-time='29021'>In the United States and other countries, school children have long learned from one kind of world map.</span> <span data-start-time='29021' data-end-time='33021'>It is called the Mercator projection.</span> <span data-start-time='33021' data-end-time='39417'>This version of map is more than 400 years old.</span> <span data-start-time='39417' data-end-time='52271'>Gerardus Mercator, a European mapmaker, designed it for the purpose of helping sailors and ships on the high seas.</span> <span data-start-time='52271' data-end-time='65896'>Today, the Mercator projection is the map of choice for modern-day direction-finding services like Apple Maps and Google Maps.</span> <span data-start-time='65896' data-end-time='72917'>It is also the map of choice in school classrooms and textbooks.</span> <span data-start-time='72917' data-end-time='82000'>But map experts and other people say the Mercator projection should not be used in schools.</span> <span data-start-time='82000' data-end-time='89625'>They say it does not correctly show the sizes of countries and continents.</span> <span data-start-time='89625' data-end-time='100188'>It is not an easy thing to show our three-dimensional planet in just two dimensions length and width.</span> <span data-start-time='100188' data-end-time='111958'>Gerardus Mercator’s 16th-century method made countries far from Earth’s equator appear larger than they are.</span> <span data-start-time='111958' data-end-time='118188'>Countries close to the equator appear small in comparison.</span> <span data-start-time='118188' data-end-time='125917'>On Mercator maps, for example, Africa appears smaller than North America.</span> <span data-start-time='125917' data-end-time='133500'>In reality, the African continent is larger than all of North America.</span> <span data-start-time='133500' data-end-time='140583'>Mercator maps also make Greenland appear bigger than China.</span> <span data-start-time='140583' data-end-time='146979'>In fact, China is about four times larger than Greenland.</span> <span data-start-time='146979' data-end-time='161104'>Now, school officials in the U.S. state of Massachusetts are replacing the Mercator map with one that presents a different view of the world.</span> <span data-start-time='161104' data-end-time='167604'>Boston Public Schools is America’s oldest public school system.</span> <span data-start-time='167604' data-end-time='176938'>It is also the first-known American school system to use the Gall-Peters projection world map.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1780/new_map.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=8396 data-hint-location='29021' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1780/what_does_projection_mean.m4a'>What does projection mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='an estimate'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1780/classroom_project.m4a'><span>classroom project</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1780/provide_directions.m4a'><span>provide directions</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1780/a_new_map.m4a'><span>a new map</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1780/an_estimate.m4a'><span>an estimate</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=8397 data-hint-location='10542' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1780/what_subjects_use_maps.m4a'>What subjects use maps?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='geography and social studies'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1780/geography_and_social_studies.m4a'><span>geography and social studies</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1780/recess.m4a'><span>recess</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1780/reading_and_literature.m4a'><span>reading and literature</span></div><div class='choice' 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