When a parent sees a little girl sitting on the floor cutting paper dolls, many thoughts may come to mind: ‘She’s keeping out of trouble’ or ‘She’s making a mess’ or even ‘There go my tax returns’. The thought that should have come to my parent’s mind, however, was ‘One day she’ll be a mathematician’. My grandmother, who worked as a dressmaker, often allowed my sister and me to use her razor sharp scissors on the strips of leftover tracing paper. This paper is inspired by a notebook that I kept in grade school when I ‘studied’ paper dolls, and the figures are based on dolls found pressed between the pages.