Blog
We publish reflections on mentorship, updates from inside prisons, participant success stories, and research on restorative justice and desistance. Whether you’re a current mentor, an incarcerated learner, or someone interested in the intersection of math and social change, our blog offers a window into the real impact of this work.
Featured Blogs
Calculators are for Cheaters
“Calculators is cheatin’!” It was an outcry that parallelling what the painter who is told to use a camera rather than a paintbrush might exclaim...
The Prison to PhD Pipeline: A Spark in the Dark
Those first few days in prison were pure hell, as I finally had the chance to process the previous year of my life, and to face the reality of the long sentence ahead.
The Trials and Tribulations of CodePraxis
CodePraxis, the PMP coding app, will soon be launching in partnership with the Maine Correctional Center following a long, tortuous process of trial, error and retrial.
A Curious Proof
If we choose to define intelligence as the ability to creatively make associations, then questions are the father of intelligence.
The Prison to PhD Pipeline: Meet Travis Cunningham
My name is Travis Cunningham and I'm here to share my story. I am, first of all, a mathematician.
Hello, world!
Our blog aims to foster conversations about all that matters to us and to you, with a focus on math education and on amplifying the voices of incarcerated people.
On Clemency and Transformation: An Interview with Christopher Havens
I'm not easily convinced that something of this nature will really happen, but the reality is that I must now prepare for this. The world is so different.
A Brief History of the Prison Math Project
The PMP began in 2015 as an in-prison program, not unlike the math circles we hold today.
Phantasmagoria
What you assume can have a tremendous impact on how you perceive reality. A false notion begets a misconception...