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October 24, 2011

     These students are attempting to make world maps of their pumpkin globes.
     It's tricky work showing all of a sphere in two dimensions.  They needed to pay attention to the lines of latitude and longitude.  Some places needed to be stretched out shrunk.  And some places needed to be split apart into eastern and western hemispheres.

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