Here’s how it works. Walk into any school classroom and you will likely see a flat, rectangular map of the world sprawled across the wall. Generations of children have grown up learning that ...

Education has a huge impact on our world views. Kai Krause ... To supplement the new map they suggest a classroom activity where students peel oranges and attempt to flatten it into a 2D surface ...

The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based ... even developed an eponymous equation to quantify the degree of distortion that a world map experienced. Called Tissot’s ...

When many people picture a map of the world, what they're probably thinking of is a Mercator projection, a representation that despite its apparent distortions has been around more than 400 years.

If you have the most common world map internalized ... For the last 500 years, it could be found in atlases and on many classroom walls - but it distorts the size of countries and whole continents.