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Trending: Next Level Cricket Rivalry

Next Level Cricket Rivalry

12/03/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - Trending, Next Level Cricket Rivalry

Indian and Bangladeshi cricket fans wage online warfare.

Cricket fans in India and Bangladesh declare war online with each other and what is at the heart of the US ‘Common Core’ debate in mathematics.

Indian and Bangladeshi cricket fans have a long standing history of sporting jibes with one another but after a recent match, they took their rivalry online where it all became less than amiable. As a result, some government sites in Bangladesh were hacked and taken down. 

‘Common Core’ is a set of national educational standards in the United States in Maths and English that starts at Kindergarten. A video explaining a simple maths problem using a common core method went viral and again raises the debate about whether Common Core maths methods in schools work. 

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