TODOS Mathematics for ALL
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The TODOS: Mathematics for ALL Podcast amplifies the mission of TODOS through conversations exploring the intersection of mathematics education, social justice, and identity. Season 5 brings together in new host Shakiyya Bland to join Theodore Chao and Shari Kaku as they explore the TODOS publication, Antiracist Mathematics Education: Stories of Acknowledgement, Action, and Accountability. Each episode features conversations with select book's chapter authors, diving into the ideas, stories, and classroom realities behind the work. The season is organized around the book's four sections: Students, Administrators, Teachers, and Parents/Caregivers & Community Members, and serves as an audio co…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
TODOS Podcast makes the identities, stereotypes, and teaching relationships surrounding mathematics visible through reflective conversations with educators.
TODOS Podcast treats mathematics teaching as a question of identity, power, and classroom practice. In season four, Theodore Chao and Sherry Kaku lead conversations with educators about Asian American experiences in math education, moving easily between personal teaching…
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A mathematics leader connects teacher identity, classroom practice, and community-rooted educational work.
Ma Bernadette Salgrino's story gives the episode a clear center: a mathematics educator moving across Manila, Eastside Union High School District, the California Math Council, and the Santa Clara County Office of Education while carrying questions of identity into teacher…
A warm, reflective look at how Math on a Stick opens mathematical participation to more people.
Math on a Stick comes through as a thoughtful case for public mathematics, with TODOS Podcast framing Nolan's account around welcome rather than performance.
A warm, thoughtful conversation about identity, belonging, and the values shaping mathematics education.
The episode opens with Theodore Chao and Sherry Kaku framing Asian-American mathematics identity as a question of culture, language, equity, and the model minority myth.
Math, family, and race sit side by side in a calm, thoughtful conversation that stays close to lived experience.
Francis Su's conversation with Teddy Chow and Sherry Kaku moves from math education into leadership, family life, race, and inclusion without feeling stitched together.
A patient math conversation about identity, tokenization, and the social life of schooling.
This episode treats mathematics education as a question of identity as much as method. Theodore Chao and Sherry Kaku speak with Dr. Cindy Zhang about teacher noticing, rehumanizing math instruction, and how Asian-American identity gets read inside schools and institutions.
A warm, practice-minded conversation about bilingual math, coding, and students teaching students.
TODOS treats bilingual mathematics as lived practice rather than theory. Theodore Chao speaks with Carlos Lopez Leyva, Marios Pattichis, and Sylvia Celedon-Pattichis about learning ecologies, translanguaging, and ways to make coding and math feel less like gatekeeping and more…
Administrators matter most when they help school feel like part of a wider community, not a gate.
The episode frames a book-study conversation around a clear question: how administrators can help families feel welcome. John Staley and Denise keep the focus on relationships, community spaces, and the idea that school is only one part of a wider network of learning spaces.
A patient, personal look at Asian American visibility inside math education.
The episode centers on Asian American identity shaped by migration, family, and math education. Dr. Yi speaks from the perspective of a first-generation immigrant from South Korea, while the hosts keep circling the show's themes of invisibility and hyper visibility.
Plain-language dyscalculia news and support.
Belonging, leadership, and mathematics in conversation.
Héctor and Beto dissect Mexican grammar, slang, and news in native-speed Spanish conversations.
Asian Efficiency's Tan Pham and Brooks Duncan on time management, habits, and AI tools.
A call-in helpline where listener questions turn into reported science and history investigations.
Teddy Chao and his co-host welcome Richard Velasco for a warm conversation about his move from the University of Oklahoma to a new assistant professorship at the University of Florida.
Theodore Chao introduces Dr.
Teddy Chow opens the conversation by placing Kari Koka inside TOTOS election month.
Two hosts frame the season around Asian American math identity and the model minority myth.
Theodore Chao gathers three guests for a conversation about bilingual mathematics and electrical and computer engineering education.
Teddy Chow opens with Sherry Kaku and introduces Bobson Wong as a good friend and someone he has been a huge fan of in math education.
Theodore Chao and Sherry Kaku welcome Dr.
TODOS Podcast S4E1 centers on Theodore Chao and Sherry Kaku speaking with Naehee Kwun, a math educator, Teaching for Justice Conference founder, and CalTeach educator at UC Irvine.
The episode brings on Eugene Hung and Sherry during a hard week of wildfires in Southern California.
This episode features Ma Bernadette Salgrino discussing her journey as a Filipino American immigrant math educator, from leaving her family in the Philippines to becoming president of the California Math Council.
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Hosts Theodore Chao and Shari Kaku interview Nolan Fossum about his experience as a visiting mathematician at Math on a Stick, an interactive exhibit at the Minnesota State Fair.
Theodore Chow and Sherry Kaku welcome Paolo Tan for a conversation about disability and mathematics education.
Teddy Chow and Sherry Kaku welcome Francis Su for a conversation on visibility, hypervisibility, and math education.
TOTUS opens February by placing the conversation inside Black History Month, Valentine’s Day month, and election season.
Teddy and Sherry open one of season four’s final episodes with Dr.
The episode opens with a reminder about the TOTOS Book Club meeting and the Administrators section of The Anti-Racist Mathematics Education.
The podcast welcomes Susie Håkansson as a mentor whose influence stretches across careers and classrooms.
This episode discusses Chapter 9 of the TODOS Antiracist Mathematics Education book, focusing on cultivating equity and empathy in community-focused elementary math modeling through the EQ STEM Project.
Hosts introduce a season exploring Asian American stories in math education, challenging the model minority myth.
This episode discusses the book 'Teaching Math to Multilingual Students' and strategies for positioning English learners for success in math.
Host Maria Zavala interviews math professor John Oaks about supporting LGBTQIA+ students in math classrooms and his work with TODOS.
This episode features a conversation with educator Marion Dingle about equity and social justice in mathematics education.
This episode discusses social justice in mathematics education, featuring an interview with Dr.