• DampCanary@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I don’t get it,
    from my memory of geography class in 5th to 8th grade, in elementary, we extensively learned about all kinds of maps, and projections, so teaching kids 3-4 is huge downgrade.

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      18 hours ago

      didn’t mean only teach 3-4, just to not regularly use one projection. use a handful so no one instinctively learns to accept one.

      even though you learned a lot of maps, it’s likely most maps you used when not learning about different projections were the same.

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        17 hours ago

        Most likely, because I would guess that >90% of my up to date (after middle school) use of maps was highly localised to plaxe of interest.
        Which doesn’t really show projection type (or brings relevance of it to surface).