Eighth-grade students in Louisiana are the focus of a pilot program aimed at educating kids on the risks and futility of gambling using mathematics and real life examples as a basis for lessons.

"Facing the Odds: The Mathematics of Gambling" brings the state into compliance with a 1999 law that requires public and private schools to teach students the dangers and problems linked with gambling.

The program, funded by a $70,850 contract with the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling, begins this spring.

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