Pink Flamingos

The word 'Holiday' is very favourite to all of us. That means a lot of pleasure and brings happiness to our regular life. We all are very busy in this earth with our daily works. There are many people all around who have even no time to spend a while with their friends and family because of their busyness. Those kinds of situation can bring a lot of stress and unhappiness to their life. To overcome that boring life, people need a long break from the works. Making holidays with friends or family…

“Ewwww… she looks gross. So not natural.” “Her feet are only 3 inches long! How can she walk?” “Her head is way too big for her neck. She looks freaky.” These and many other comments could be heard as students put the finishing touches on their life-sized Barbie. As part of a Project-Based Social Justice Mathematics (PB-SJM) pedagogy, students investigated body image as portrayed by childhood toys by scaling Barbie dolls to their height (Mukhopadhyay, 2014). Students used the concept of…