Instead of the traditional Mercator map of the earth that we've grown used to, authorities are introducing the Gall-Peters-style map to students to better display authentic sizes of the continents.

who claimed he invented it — though well after the discovery of an identical map made by James Gall in the 1800s. The Gall-Peters projection (shown below) makes seeing the relative size of ...

Now, for the first time, thousands of children in schools in the United States will use a very different map, the Gall-Peters projection. About 600 school classrooms in Boston, Massachusetts ...