Tadi matafutu kuwuk치u matu pachikutu adisha. Yata Afani, Bryan Sakwa, Wano Wana. If you don't. I hope you can get snippets of the same on our YouTube channel. But we have just begun the day. Nwamu up Sayendo Kwa. I'd like you to help me to give a warm welcome to our first guest of the day. He has a plan. Plan ma~! Asen making it Not spending making it and that's one of my favourite kind of plans Good morning Good morning to you How are you? I'm fine, thank you Please introduce yourself to the people Well my name is Joffrey Nai Rubya I'm a Piloting Training and Flight Operations Dispacha, Licensed Also in the business world doing the crypto currency trading We need to get out of your comfort zone and take off so that's a natural of who I am. You have many colleagues, you're here doing this, you're here doing that. Don't they have a clash, don't you ever get tired? No, actually I enjoy doing new things every day. Oh really? That's very interesting. What new thing have you done today? Well, let me say, the newest thing that I've done this week is just, I have a project that I'm working on, I'm coming up with a school. Whoa! That's what we are actually doing, a preparatory school. We will discuss that shortly after this. Alright, let's first start with your book, Take Off. What's that all about? Okay, the take off book simply says that you are the pilot of your own life. You are the captain and when you are the captain, it means that you need to plan, you know, the responsibilities of a captain is to do flight planning, communication, the journey of an aircraft, don't just happen, you don't just wake up and start up and just fly. There is a process and then you have to plan a pre-flight. So if you are flying tomorrow, you have to plan a day before. So basically in our lives, we need to plan our lives. You know, many people just do things without planning. And you know, when you plan 80%, 20% is success. But when you force success on 20%, you're going to fail.  From planning, planning is a chapter, there is a making steps. You know, after planning, the aircraft has to leave the hanga and then taxi to the runway. So whenever you have a plan or an idea, you have to make it work, not just putting it there. So the plane goes and reaches to a place that is known as the runway.  Then in life, I've tried to elaborate that. When you're planning to do something new, you have to go back to the books, go back to the plan and ask yourself, is this the right decision that I'm making? Because when the aircraft takes off, the only thing you can do is to land. So the things that we start like taking over is now getting off from the ground to the air. And once the aircraft has taken off, it can't come back. So it also prepares you.  Because when a pilot takes off, you need to communicate with the tower, you need to communicate with the control. That shows you when you keep communicating, you will not get lost. But when a pilot just avoids communication, he gets lost. So communication is a factor that helps you to remain on track. So it's a journey after take off. We face like something called weather. Sometimes you find very difficult weather. It's raining, there's storms. But the pilot doesn't give up. Now those are the challenges that we meet in life. You started a small business. Umepata challenges kidogo apa. For instance, you ventured into marriage. Umepata shake ups kidogo. But it shows you that you need to be firm on controls. So the journey continues, continues. You get into an approach. A pilot is something that we call an approach. You're able to see the runway, you're approaching. The same case to us. After you've planned everything, you're able to see if you've done a business and you've set everything. And then you're going to receive the check. But umepata, sometimes there are konezakwana delays when we go come tomorrow. It doesn't mean that you have to give up again. I understand. So you have to keep focus. Now when you're approaching, you've been controlled by the control tower. So you've been told that you're the number one, number two, number three. Now in life that's where you see there's a difference. For instance, you're driving. I'm not driving. You should not complain because everybody has his or her own time. And then the planes after a few minutes the plane is cleared to take off as in to land. And now when you land that is what I call success. But you see success is not just the beginning. Success is at the end. So the book entails how to become successful. So success is not just something that is just planned in a day. It's a journey. So you don't just wake up and say that I want to be a successful person. You must work hard, work smart, be focused. When challenges come, you are strong to overcome. So that's a nutshell of the book. All right. So failing to plan is basically planning to fail. I did see something, however, that was very interesting. And one of the, it was an artist's funny thing. It was an artist, but he was highlighting the fact that we don't celebrate our failures enough. Because we are definitely going to make mistakes. And I say failure very loosely because it's just on the way to success. You cannot fail if you're not trying fast. So I think trying is the first thing. You may fail, but if you don't move past the failures, then you guess will never reach success. But we don't really celebrate our failures enough. There's no song in success. That's what he said. There's no song in success. You learn nothing from success. You have succeeded. Alafu. But when you fail, you say, okay, so I should have done this this way. Okay, you fail again. I did this way, but I should have tweaked it here. What do you think? Okay, personally, I love... Failure is part of success. But many people say that failing is like it's the end. You know, when we are getting trained to fly, you make mistakes. And it's out of those mistakes that you're able to learn. So whenever you get a very big failure, when you fail, that is, out of that failure, that's where your stronghold is. So when you fail, you're able to understand that next time you cannot make such a mistake. But if there is no fail, actually success without failure is not success. It's not real success. So true success entails a failure. And failure is part of learning. So whenever you try something and fail, know that you are learning and it's part of success. So for a successful person, you cannot emit about failure because it's part of the ingredient. It would be wrong for me to say I'm very successful, but I've never failed. It's wrong. Very wrong.  You get somebody from a very, very humble background fail in trying and then and actually, I've come to discover that most prominent and great people are those people that who have failed. Let's say like an example of the bulb. The person who invented the bulb he tried many times. A hundred and something actually. I think that is easy. This is 999. He kept on trying, trying, trying. So if he failed, if he gave up on failure, I think we couldn't have been having the lights today. But he kept on trying, trying, trying. So it's out of failure that success is born. Before we go to the second part of the interview, we just had a conversation with my co-hosts and we're trying to figure out where toxicity begins and tenacity ends such that naku lango mo by the way it's hard. It's maybe the environment I'm in is hard. Maybe what I'm going through is hard. Difficultis. But where does that end and now I cannot do this anymore because it's affecting my mental health. Where does that begin? Everything begins in the mind. Success is in the mind. Failure is in the mind. It doesn't mean that you have to be in a very good place to succeed. Our minds are like computers. Whatever you feed, it process. If you feed like positivity, that's what is going to come out. So I think or I see success the moment we allow to feed positive things in our mind, that's where transformation begins. But if all the time we are complaining, actually personally I avoid complaining, mamalin like the nation, the economy is bad. As we speak there are people doing very well. It's true, it's very true. They are doing very well. Ata mafutai pande fike miyami. Nisa wa. Ya ni there are people what I can use are 500. They will not complain. So instead of complaining, just upgrade yourself and think about what else can I do or what more can I do to get into this standard.  So it's up to us we start thinking big. Think beyond the box. Like for me I mean aviation but I see beyond. Because last time when Covid came it really gave us a very big lesson especially in the aviation industry because travel was banned and we couldn't do anything. But now that's when I started thinking thinking beyond. Napaata let me get other ideas. And the moment when you see beyond beyond your profession like for me always admire interacting with different people different professions not only in aviation and it has really changed me because you need other people besides the people that you are working together and that's where life becomes easy and able to get exposure. I don't think I've heard someone saying life is easy in a very long time. You must be forced to be reckoned with. Alright so something else about you is you are into cryptocurrency and the forex trade. Let's start with forex. Tell us a little bit about that. How you maneuver it as a person. Okay forex I started trading let me say like 3 years ago that's when I started the forex journey. Well forex is a very interesting industry and at the same time it's very volatile.  It has its up and down and many people just show you the good part of it and they don't show you the bad part of it because in forex you can lose money in a minute. It doesn't matter how much you have and you can triple the money in like 5 minutes. So it's a good industry that requires a lot of skills. You need to know the graphs very well to analyze them because a single mistake can finish you up. So that's about forex. Basically it's about when you travel into a different country if you have Kenya shillings you're going to Uganda you have to change. So forex is that money exchanging from Kenya shillings to USD to Naira to Uganda currency. That's all about forex. Basically it's about exchanging of foreign money. Would you advise someone to get into forex? Yes, but between there is forex and there is crypto. I would advise people to start with crypto because crypto is very interesting. Tell us about crypto. Actually anyone who has done forex and then to do crypto because right now crypto you earn money 24-7. It's where your money is working for you because you're able to earn 24-7. You just need to have a phone. You don't need to have an office. You just need to have a smartphone and internet. That's all. And then you don't lose your money. You don't lose your capital. So I have this passion to inspire the young people. According to the survey 90% of the teens they spend their time on social media.  So it's an awakened call that we are bringing to the young people. You can work smart. You can start earning with your phone. You can start earning. You see, working smart. And you remember the world is going digital.  As we speak today there is something that we call the metaverse. In the metaverse we are able to buy a house able to buy a hotel that you cannot see. You can buy a car that you cannot see. So this is technology and actually the future of money is in crypto. So don't be left behind and the people who say that how do I invest in something that I cannot see? The truth is the future of money is there and if you resist it you will get yourself there. So crypto is very nice especially for people who are saying just a small capital. You know, you get like we as young people spending 50,000 in a weekend it's not hard. Actually most of us we love spending but we hate investing. Nikiambia 222 to kule nyama to spend 20,000 but if I tell the same person there is a project there is something that you can do in 30,000 to get money on a daily basis. And the next day there is the same person who can complain. Life is hard. So I think we need to bring this culture of investing investing wisely. Our deputy president is excellent. But just the other day told us that we should start cultivating a saving culture. And there is a difference between saving and investing but I would like to think saving comes first before you invest. Is that true? Actually you have to save. Okay when you eat the seed actually I will say when you have money I see it as a seed.  But if you sow it today in the next 2-3 days you can get double triple of that. So I think we need to have that culture of protecting the seed. A good farmer don't eat the seed. He sows the seed. Well put, well put. So basically cryptocurrency is digital money that I cannot see or technically use daily. It's not like mobile money. I can't see mobile money but I can use it. But I understand cryptocurrency you can use it to invest and transact. So what particular platform would I be on to start cryptocurrency? Break it down for us. If we were laymen or lay people and we don't really know how this goes about where would we be starting from? Is there an app that you download? Are there things we need to know before we download the app? When we start trading do we start at complete zero? How do we make sure we double it? I want to sleep and wake up and my money has grown. How does this all work out? Okay Namban, you'd have to start with a passion or the love of it and then you have to, you know everything is just a risk. You have to set your mind and say like, I'm doing this thing. With your phone there is an app called Binance. Binance is a wallet. It's used actually it's the leading in the globe. It's the biggest actually. It's like a bank.  So it holds your money. So with that app we use a platform called Gigamax. Gigamax is a platform where we trade arbitrage live. For instance if you you have the, let's say you've opened an account with Binance and then you open another account with Gigamax. So Binance you transfer money from Binance to Gigamax. Once you transfer to Gigamax and then you start trading. On this platform you're able to earn 1% every day of your total capital. Actually 1% is the lowest. It ranges from 1%, 1.2, 1.3 depending on the market. But what you are sure is that your capital is there. It's a system where let's say the market is bad it locks your capital. If the market starts going down it locks your capital. If it goes up it keeps on locking your capital. So in a day you are guaranteed of getting 1%. Now imagine if you invest like a million Kenya shillings or 100,000 shillings. You are sure that every day you're going to get 1,000 Kenya shillings if you invest 100,000. So now here it's where your capital, your seed determines what you're going to earn in a day. There are people who are investing even big huge money like 100,000 USD, 50,000 USD and as from 30,000 that is 200 USD you can start trading. And then trading is very interesting because you keep on setting the trades after every four hours. You know I always say too much sleep too much puvati. If you sleep, if you like sleeping then you are creating puvati. Because great and successful people they don't sleep. Actually after every four hours I have to be awake because when you set a trade wait for other four hours you set a trade like in a day I can set only six times in a period of four hours trading just takes a minute just a minute. So it is very simple it is not rocket science about crypto currency but there are other platforms that you lose your money on this platform actually I will not ask you for your money because there are platforms where people tell you that give me 100,000 in two days I give you 200,000 there are so many scammers on this platform because I also do training I train the young people if I train you will not give me your money I will show you the steps and how to deposit how to make your trades and there are so many people that have inspired and have helped you get somebody is an engineer but the task that he or she has they have a lot to do but when you have such a platform whether you are traveling you are working anywhere you are working for instance if I am here or really my traders are running so we are working you see as much as tech is advancing it is a very beautiful thing but it is leaving a lot of room for privacy issues for example is it possible for my account to be hacked at any one time it depends on the systems that you are using the accounts that you are using it is very secure actually they keep on improving day by day because at the same time there are people that are very very intelligent when it comes to hacking of the systems but such a system or such a platform the security is very high it is like saying about the bank like the central bank it is very hard for somebody to hack the system because such platforms and international platforms the security is very tight especially if I am withdrawing my money if I am withdrawing my profits they are security checks I have to sign in with my email I have to get a call from the phone it is not just something that you just press it is something that really inquires calls from the email calls from the phone even if somebody took my phone they cannot hack it because there is a security check are there the forms of digital currency apart from crypto actually cryptocurrency there are many there is bitcoin bitcoin is the leading there is Ethereum there is a litecoin there is Solana so there are so many coins bitcoin is the one that is leading so when bitcoin came people said actually there are people who bought bitcoin with like 200 shillings or 20,000 as we speak bitcoin is around 3.8 million so imagine the people who bought one bitcoin or two bitcoins so you end up seeing where we are headed as a group the future of money is in crypto countries such as U.S. they started digitizing their money the U.S. dollar they wanted to be in crypto because if you have the crypto you can do it you can spend it anywhere in the world you don't need to go like now for instance if I travel I go to South Africa and I have my binance I just go there and I withdraw my money very comfortably because it's a platform that you can use money anywhere just a shed there is a bitcoin there is a solana there are so many coins inside of it is it possible to have or to transact with more than one coin at the same time is it advisable actually there are people who buy coins like you buy like solana when you buy coins it's like an investment and that's why now the seasons are changing right now people are not buying land most of them you get their investing in digital assets you see because land in Tafika place is easily conned is easily conned but the best thing with this if you want to sell if you want to sell your coins you just sell them in two minutes you are able to sell so I go to your money is secured so and it's actually fun doing it because the moment you wake up you just want to go somewhere just withdraw some profits and do a project so it makes actually lives very very interesting and you are able to do many things at the same time you can build you can do your studies you can implement other things but the situation for X is where the trade comes in is when the money is changed like currency for example yen to US dollar or the pound to Kenya shillings that's where the money is so where exactly is the money with crypto currency where is the trading in crypto we deal with exchanges so let me just use it a certain bank is selling USD at 100 shillings another bank is selling it at 105 so what we do you go to exchanger that is selling at low price you buy and go sell it at high price nika matu ni toke hapa narobi I buy tomatoes at a low price I go to Mombasa and sell them at a high price like a kilo at 100 shillings I go sell them at 110 or 105 so now it depends with the quantity of the tomatoes I have so the bigger the quantity the bigger the margins so we able to get the small margins because even if you go to the shop today you'll find a shop is selling at 200 the next shop is selling it at 205 so crypto is about those differences so when we combine them together at the end of the day we able to make money so basically that's where crypto money comes from finance pili janzo kututaksa kwa badro nisi shouta niski but now you see crypto is a decentralized currency it's decentralized and it's not governed by anyone it's decentralized so ok it's decentralized let me say that so there's no it's not susceptible to things like VAT but we pay tax like you know in this country you cannot you cannot survive without paying tax like you go to buy bread you pay tax so everybody pays tax but it's not what I'm trying to lead into it's not a direct conflict of interest ok nisi shouta nimi watcha Facebook, Weibo, Twitter hashtag of the day is why in the morning ok so far what I've learnt about you is you are an author of a book called take off it's about success and we've also learnt today failures because failures are part of success and that's where you actually learn something when you fail the second thing I've learnt about you is you're in the aviation industry you are also about to become a pilot if I'm not wrong and he both trades in forex and cryptocurrency and he's given us a very wonderful breakdown of the tool I think he was right he said when he introduces let's say person X to either crypto or mini person X so I really hope you can have a conversation after this if you missed it please don't panic you can go to our YouTube channel that is at white 5 4 channel on YouTube as we wind this up what would you like to tell the youth of today the one who is having a very hard time again his excellency deputy president Gati Kashagwa just recently at a graduation told people kindly I will not lie to you there are no jobs out here we are not saying that you are graduating congratulations but we are not saying that you are coming to a very able job market what would you like to tell that person ok I will try to tell the young people you can make it don't expect money from the government don't expect you know you have everything that entails to success you just need to believe in yourself and unleash the potential inside of you you have a great idea you have great visions but if you don't bring them out if you don't start working them out nothing is going to happen so you must wake up you must get out of your comfort zone and be the person that you are supposed to be so I would like to inspire you be inspired and take off get out from your comfort zone and just believe in yourself and put God first nothing is hard with him but say amen to that amen to that thank you so very much for coming you have both inspired and educated me thank you I hope at home kuswa mahali nani to sit nini we can do this we can change the world say it to my mother youth or the leaders of today kindly y254 underscore channel on the gram hashtag of the day is 1 in the morning and before I forget joki happy birthday happy birthday don't go away we're not done yet


Hello everyone and welcome to Math Mashup with CISA. This webinar is intended for upper elementary and middle school teachers and students so that we can mash up some math with some good math talk and differentiation and even throw in some positivity and personalized learning as well. I'm excited to have you here with me. My name is Cara Brem. I'm formerly a third, fourth and fifth grade teacher and also a seventh grade math teacher in Cary, North Carolina right outside of our capital city of Raleigh.  I just recently came out of the classroom this past school year so that role is new to me but I do love teaching math and taught fourth grade before I taught seventh grade and certainly dove right in. Feel free to connect with me at Mrs. Brem Tweet's on Twitter or at Mrs. Brem Math on Instagram. You will see that I am a CISA ambassador. I'm also national board certified teacher. I'm certified in literacy. I know go figure right? Math teacher certified in literacy. I'm also a Google certified educator level two. So I'm excited to have you here with me. A couple housekeeping things. Thank you to everyone who is joining me live. We do have a nice group here today so if you are joining me live I appreciate you and you get a nice little free pass. You'll get a certificate for viewing that will be emailed directly to you for watching live so that certificate of completion for this 30-minute webinar will be emailed to all of my live viewers so live viewers no need to listen for a code during this session but if you are watching this during a recording you can get a six digit code that I will give throughout the session so please make sure if you're watching this in a recording only that you are ready to write down a six digit code and fill out a form and grab that code for your time here today. Alright I am excited to have you with me and share a math mashup. One of the things I wanted to just you know start off with is that sometimes the simplest things can certainly you know be so powerful. I like to keep what I do with my students in math and on CESA simple. I like that when I do keep it simple the students tend to be engaged and then everyone's learning right so simple yet effective. Here's my first example for you. One of the things that I enjoyed doing for both my fourth graders and my seventh graders in math was explaining their thinking. So that's allowing students to solve problems and tell about their problems. Whether it's solving more complex multi-step balancing equations for example like you see in this activity or it's very simple you can encourage choice and voice on how students share and you can also encourage students to have some math talk where they're using that vocabulary and working working things out on their own. Let me share with you a student example we have here. Let's go. Today we are doing two times the quantity of x plus two equals 164. First we have to distribute two so we do two times x that equals two x and then we do two times two that equals 164 and that equals 164. Next what we do we have to even it out so we subtract four away from both sets. That would be what's with two x is equal to 160. Next we have to divide it by two. We should divide both sides to get it equal. You can see here and there's an additional minute and 15 seconds you haven't seen yet but he does continue to go through and solve it totally completely correct and check his work with that math talk. He's bringing in some vocabulary talking about balancing those equations and all of that can be so powerful. A second quick example that I do have here for you as well is from a fourth grade classroom. See if we get this started my computer is acting a little slow. There we go. Okay so I'm gonna pause that for a second and I like to share this example because one of the things that I think is important here for teachers is not necessarily you know listening to the students all the time but it's getting a snapshot of their work and being able to check it in your own way at your own time while listening to them you know share things out. This student really isn't sharing how she solved the problems she's certainly sharing all the parts of her robot but the simple part of all of this was that it was with something we did hands-on in my fourth grade classroom as compared to the last example that was done only truly in seesaw where he was you know sharing out his his math with just seesaw so I wanted to show both of those for that reason. It can be as simple as just sharing and talking through something that's already been done in the classroom. Encourage that math talk, let the students choose. It can be so powerful for them to hear themselves. Another example of how I use seesaw and with my students was through real-world relationships. I loved having the students see something that they're learning in math and really be able to find it in the classroom or find it in the school and an example of that would be to do a scavenger hunt. You could take you know almost any topic that you're doing and find it in the school and make it into a scavenger hunt. The example that you see to the right is goes along with the activity that's listed there on the left where students went around the room and they were finding radius diameter circumference circumference and area. They were telling me how would they find that you know with objects in our own classroom and they were using seesaw to label whoops excuse me let me head back here a second. Ah they were using it to label my apologies for that. So they were able to go into seesaw and use the camera, take a photo, draw on top of a photo and be able to to share their learning. There we go that's what I wanted to click. So here's just a click. Very simple but very effective. By watching these I can see if my students understand the parts and the pieces and I'm able to determine that. Now I can fast forward this a little bit. This is just a chair in our classroom. Students use whatever they wanted. They use water bottles. They use markers you know the end of a marker all kinds. So they were able to you know share what they knew and students who didn't share all the parts and pieces I was able to go back and determine well do they not share because they were you know truly unsure of what circumference was or what a diameter was or how to find the area or you know was it for another reason. So this is a very quick and simple example from my fourth grade classroom that you know we were looking at patterns and it was take a picture and share pattern that you find in the classroom again very simple but very effective. If you're watching and a recording of this webinar please write down the first three digits of your six digit code nine eight three. All right so another thing I'd like to do with my math students is always encourage a positive math mindset. Students often start math and jump into math with the oh I'm not good at math. I can't do that before they ever even try and I think you know as long as you keep that positivity flowing all year long they're going to build that math positive math mindset. One of the things that I'd like to do was to start by setting some goals and celebrating successes. We looked at Mondays as a way to celebrate instead of dread. So we were celebrating Monday and each Monday I had a different activity for them to do. Every Monday I had them click on the activity and share a positive that they had. So you can see the example there for celebrating Monday they would click the add button. They decided how they wanted to share their positive. They'd be able you know to explain why they're looking forward to this positive thing in class. So that's just one example. I have some other examples here to share with you. Here's just one that a student decided they were just going to type it up as a text box or a label. So they were just giving me their example of how you know they were going to make their day amazing and better and really try to focus on you know getting help if they need help. So it's the little things like that that if you continuously do them throughout the year you really can see that student growth. This one along with a seesaw activity that I do have linked in here where we talked about how success is like an iceberg. You only see part of that iceberg and there's so many things that really are making up that iceberg beyond what you truly see. So this was a student response on what she thought as a seventh grade math student. She said people don't see all the practice and hard work you put into math class every day. They only see the success that you get on the test. So she's using seesaw to share that response. But I think keeping that positivity alive and well in your classroom is certainly something that you can't go wrong with. Another thing that I like to focus on with my students was what I called the power of yet. And that would be you know if the student said I can't solve that problem. I would encourage them to add the word yet on to the end. So by giving your students the power of yet maybe I can't balance equations. I can't use a protractor to measure my angle yet. But if I did this I would be able to if I asked for help if I practice. So maybe you could even think of one thing that you're not sure that you can do just yet. I can't do handstands just yet. Who knows if I will ever be able to. But if I practice on my strength and continue with yoga practice maybe I will be able to. Right. So think about how you could just add one simple word the word yet and provide opportunities for students. Here's a quick example. There we go. Very simple. Right. But but the power of yet was so effective especially with my seventh graders who are doubting so many things about themselves at that age that it really was a fabulous year using the power of yet. And then I took advantage of also really trying to get to know my students and building relationships. And one of the things that we did to celebrate Monday was called two stars and a wish where everyone had something that makes them feel proud. At least one thing if not two things two shining moments that made them feel proud about themselves. And then one thing that they wish that they knew their teacher knew about them as a student. So there were some pretty powerful responses here from my students as well. So they gave two shining moments you know good grades on an assessment working with partners in class. But they wish that I knew that they like answering questions and taking challenges in class. And that might not have been something that I knew. Another quick example here that they were believing in themselves as you get on the next math test and that they studied a lot and gave themselves extra practice. So maybe that's something that I didn't know about them. And you know I think it's pretty amazing when you start building those relationships with students and they feel comfortable enough to share with you their teacher. Differentiation is something that allows you know at any level an opportunity for students to have voice and choice in a way that best meets their needs. And I found over the years that I used seesaw for four years consecutive years in my classroom two with fourth graders and two with seventh grade math. And I just found that no matter what their needs were if they have 504 plans IEP's if they were academically gifted it or anywhere in between giving them an opportunity for voice and choice was so super powerful. And seesaw allowed me to do that. One of the ways that I'd like to do that was through math tic-tac-toe boards. A choice board would be another name for this. So if you've done them before I use them in math I use them in language arts and science a variety throughout my time teaching but you know I thought it was really powerful that I could adapt the boards to fit my units of study that I could adapt it to fit any grade level I was teaching that I could allow my students to you know follow the standards that I needed to teach through these boards and it wasn't just random things on here everything related and all of their answers were captured in seesaw. So I was allowing them choice because they got to choose whatever three they wanted and just to kind of bring your eye and your attention over here to the board on the left I had a free space in the middle and depending on the board sometimes I would let the free space truly be a free space or depending on the students and the board sometimes I would let the free space be an opportunity for them to freely choose an activity that might not have been three in a row like maybe they want to do these three in a row but they also like this example activity over here so they could slide it down in or free for them to create their own activity as well so you can adapt boards to you know to go with all different kinds of subjects and grades and student needs and I found that they were really great for differentiation I had quite a variety of students in my class and this is an example that came off the board to the left that was writing with integers they were writing a story using integers one day Mr. Mrs. Integer wanted to travel somewhere they decide the destination had to be above sea level represented as a positive integer and not below sea level which would be represented as a negative integer because they wanted it to be close to the mountains they then have to decide whether they want the temperature below zero degrees Fahrenheit or represented as a negative integer or above zero degrees Fahrenheit which would be represented as a positive integer okay so she goes on there but you know it's just taking those little things and allowing the students to have that voice and creativity and you wouldn't necessarily think that oh math she was applying what she knew about integers and her very short story there and it came right off of that choice board and fit with our math standards as well all right I also really like which one doesn't belong I'm not sure if you're familiar with that but there is a website for which one doesn't belong and I have over 30 differences activities that go along with that website that are linked on these slides that you're welcome to use and change if you would like but I like which one doesn't belong because the theory behind it is that math doesn't have to have only one correct answer so if you look at the example that you see there the 9 16 25 43 you might automatically be thinking oh well 43 doesn't belong because all of the other ones are squared numbers right well what if I told you hmm 9 doesn't belong because it's the only one that's single digit or what if I told you 9 doesn't belong because when you add the other two digits 1 plus 6 is 7 4 plus 3 is 7 2 plus 5 is 7 so right there I already have a couple different ways to justify my thinking and share my reasoning and I think it's important for our students that we share with them that there there's not necessarily one correct answer in math that as long as you can support and justify your reasoning there's plenty of you know plenty of opportunity for students to have you know different answers and still be correct because the way that they solve them might be different so here's you know just one quick student response students could choose how to respond however they wanted to so we had some audio responses I this was they were using text boxes here you know to put on with as labels basically but they're gay they gave multiple different situations and their reasoning behind it so there's a couple of examples ah goodness sorry about that there's other examples there if you'd like them another example that I have here is how I used seesaw to personalize a learning experience with my seventh graders and last school year at the beginning of the school year I had a student come up to me his name was Connor and Connor said Ms. Brem I really think we could we could play Fortnite in math class and I laughed at him and said oh Connor we're not playing Fortnite in math class and he kind of shrugged and walked away and the next day came back and he said I've been thinking about it I think we can do it and I was like oh good one Connor keep going and then he came back a third day and I said when he told me the same idea said we'll go home figure it out and maybe we can make it happen and we did the students were so interested now you know not every single one but we had a special group that came and met during a 30 minute block we have built into our schedule to allow personalized learning to allow for remediation to allow for miss work things like that but we had time to capture student interest and I had a nice group of students who were interested in this project-based learning who wanted fortnight and math to go together Connor came prepared and shared with me all the ways that he found that he could connect the seventh grade math curriculum to fortnight and I got goosebumps when I heard his ideas you know I think it's pretty amazing when students take learning in their own hands you can meet them where they are so much so that we took our learning and presented it at the North Carolina Technology and Education Society conference so the students were there presenting it and presenting their learning and I even took it even further and went to IST which is the International Society for Technology and Education in Philadelphia this past summer and presented this so if you're interested in learning a little bit more about what my students did you could click on the links or the pictures to the left and it will take you to a website that we created but a very quick example would be we use seesaw with it too because we captured our learning that they were able to take you know and this is a PDF that they created but they took the fortnight map and they were figuring out there's like a circle in it to call a storm circle if you know anything about fortnight that would make sense to you if you if you don't then just know there's a storm circle in there they figured out how long the map was relative to other places that they knew they figured out the diameter radius circumference and area of that storm circle so that's just one example of one thing that the students did that really made learning personal to them that really made learning meaningful and it met them where they were they captured their interest so think of when your students come to you and say crazy awful all things maybe not shoot them down the first time I mean I certainly learned my lesson as well so there's so many different ways that we can you know make learning and math work for our students if you would like more ideas people are willing to share within the seesaw community all the time if you're not already connected on Twitter to seesaw also connect you know to Instagram at seesaw learning and there are seesaw teachers pages on Facebook not only just seesaw teachers but individual grade levels so for example third grade seesaw teachers fourth grade fifth grade six seventh and eighth grade or lumped together and even high school so there are opportunities for you to connect with the seesaw community and share ideas and learn from others there are so many out there for you and again my name is Cara Brahm you are welcome to connect with me as well on Twitter or Instagram but I would like to share the last three digits for my friends listening on the recording the last three digits of the code that you should write down for the recording is four zero one but I think everyone for their time and hope that you're able to mash up some math as well


In this video I'm going to show you how you can use social annotation with your bookshelf by a vital source e-text right within Blackboard. So first I'll show you what it looks like to annotate a vital source textbook in your Blackboard course. I'm in the content area of my Blackboard course right now and I have an annotation assignment set up here. The first thing I want to do is ensure I have access to the vital source textbook through my bookshelf by clicking on the link provided here. That will open vital source into a new window where I can log in to my bookshelf and make sure I have access to the text. I also want to make sure that I accept cookies if prompted to do so. Now that I've ensured I have access to the text I can go back into my Blackboard course and open up the annotation assignment. Blackboard will launch the vital source e-text in addition to the annotation sidebar where I as the instructor and students can add their comments and annotations to the text as they read. Students would annotate the text the same way they would any other text with hypothesis by selecting the text they'd like to annotate and clicking the annotate button. Now that we've seen what it looks like to use hypothesis with a bookshelf by vital source e-text in your Blackboard course I'll show you how you can set up a hypothesis enabled reading with your vital source e-text. The first thing I'll want to do is pull up the reading I'd like my students to use hypothesis with in my vital source bookshelf. Once I have the reading pulled up I'll click on this little I button to bring up more information which includes the URL of the textbook so I'll copy that to have that handy and then I'll navigate back to my Blackboard course where I can set up my hypothesis enabled reading. In my content area I'll hover over build content and scroll and select hypothesis from the drop-down menu. Here I'll enter my basic assignment information including the title and I'll want to include that link to the e-text in my vital source bookshelf so students can ensure they're logged in before accessing hypothesis. Once I've added the information about the assignment including the link to the vital source bookshelf e-text I can scroll down enable grading for the assignment if I do want to assign grades for the students and set up due dates if that's something that's desired. I can click submit to create the assignment shell in my Blackboard course and then that will be added to my content area. Now that the assignment shell has been added I can click on the assignment and from here I can attach the vital source e-text to the hypothesis enabled reading. I'll do that by choosing vital source from the file picker and pasting that URL of the vital source e-text once again into this bar I'll click the little arrow to ensure that it's connected and click select book. From here I can select which section of the textbook I would like students to annotate by selecting the chapter or section itself or by entering a specific page range. So I'm going to choose this section it will automatically input the page range for me and I'll click select. I can choose whether or not to make it a group assignment and continue and from here you can now see that my bookshelf by vital source e-text is connected to my hypothesis enabled reading in Blackboard. Once students are logged into their vital source bookshelf they'll be able to access their e-text and annotate the e-text right within their Blackboard course.


I got my selfie stick, just getting the angles right really quick. This looks a lot better, doesn't it?  Let's see if I can turn it around like that. How's it look? Is it clear? Do I sound good?  Looks good. Sounds good. Way better. Take the shirt, eat, sleep, trade, repeat. We'll give it a few minutes for everyone to kind of get in here and then we'll start. While we're waiting for everyone to kind of get in here, if you guys have some questions, prepare some questions and we'll take it from there. Yeah, I have a selfie stick. It actually looks a lot nicer with the selfie stick. It looks very professional.   Is that a car behind me? Yeah, this guy behind me definitely thinks I'm nuts. I'm just gonna act like I'm doing nothing. That's funny. I only knew what he was thinking. It's a nice GLE63 AMG. So what did you guys all trade today while we're waiting for everyone to kind of get in here? There was kind of a lot of stocks in play. So it was just a matter of picking the best ones on the day today. RKDA, RKDA, FBIO, very nice C63 AMG, nice his and her Porsches. Everyone could see me and hear me all right, right? I just wanted to make sure before I kind of get started. What's that 100? What does that mean? CZK100? Does that mean something? Anyway. What time is it? What time is the clock yet? It gave you money? Don't give me money. I don't want money. Take it back. Refund it. Is there a way I can refund this? All right. I'm just gonna get started. So what I like to do in these recaps is I kind of like to walk everyone through my mindset, what I did in the morning, how I'm feeling because the trading process, the trading process is just as important as the trading mechanics. Here's another car coming in front of me.  Anyway, so let me walk you through my process, right? Let me walk you through my process. So last night I had some friends over the house. One of my friends is a medical student.  So we came over to hang out. So I went to bed a little bit late last night and any time I go to bed late, I always set an alarm up so I can be up early just to be able to secure locates if there's a big play happening. So I woke up seven in the morning, secured my locates, and I basically was just sitting at the desk. And today what I was most interested in was the low hanging fruit, which are the stocks from the day before that people forget about, that all the attention is off of and I could kind of capitalize on. So for me, what I felt like was some good low hanging fruits were FFHL. That was number one. There was kind of other ones like OPTT, but that didn't really bounce. And I think there was a DMPI was a stock that kind of gapped up today. So coming into the morning, I saw DMPI ramp to like $1.50, $1.70 and kind of gave it all back. It went to like $120 or $130 pre-market. And from there, I know that I was interested in playing it because my mentality was that if the stock is broken down pre-market, chances are that it's not going to rebound. Morning, how are you? Chances are that it's not going to rebound when the market opens, right? Chances are it's not going to rebound when the market opens. So the top watches of the day are always the stocks that I think are the stocks that people forget or the stocks that are already dead pre-market. So DMPI was the main watch. I kind of wanted that to rebound to be able to short it. I think TRNX or TNXP, what was that T stock that was up today? That was also another one that I think hit. I think it was 220 pre-market or no, was that the one that went red? Regardless, the thing with these stocks is that you always want to be shorting or you always. Because for me, I'm primarily short buys. I don't like to go long. I haven't really found an adjutant. So for me personally, what I want to see on these stocks is I want to see the stocks break down and I want to just join their trend. If the stock is up trending all day, that is a good stock to go long. But if a stock is already broken and it has collapsed, what I want to do is just join the downside. I want to keep it really, really simple. So today on FFHL, my plan was simple. I wanted the stock to just stay red. Either it went from green to red or went from red to green and failed. I want to just see the stock red. If the stock was red, that gave me the confirmation that I needed that today is the day to have profit taking. And today is the day that shorts are going to feel more comfortable on this stock. Because the truth of the matter is when a stock goes red, that is a signal that weakness has started. It is a signal that shorts start to feel comfortable. It is a signal that longs feel uncomfortable. So on FFHL, this morning, they ramped it up to $7 pre-market on no volume. $6 or $7, whatever the whole number was. I think it was $7. They ramped it up to $7 on low volume. So what my mentality was was this. Let it do its thing. Let it push. Let it do whatever. But when the stock goes red, short it. When the stock goes red, short it. So if you fast forward to the price action today on FFHL, you could see that it hit $7. It stopped out all the aggressive shorts from Friday. It stopped out all the people that were shorting with FOMO and pre-market. And I personally didn't take the trade because I was really scared of it. I didn't believe it. I got in my own head about it. And I kind of screwed it up. I basically let my emotions take control rather than let the pattern play out. So if you just look at the chart, you could see very clearly that once the stock went red, it never came back. That is a big signal. So next time, this is a reminder for me that even when my emotions are taking control, even when I feel uncertain, I have to be able to recognize and realize that I made my plan when I was thinking straight, when I had no emotions, and I just have to follow my plan. So any time a stock goes from green to red or goes from red to green and fails, that is the signal that I want to at least take a small starter short to get my feet wet. But here's the problem. If a stock is red and goes green and doesn't pull back, that is the opposite. That is a bullish signal. That is the signal telling us that the stock is too strong. So sorry, guys. Every time I do this walk, I show you guys this house because they have an event door SVJ in the parking lot. So sick. What is TRNX trading at right now? But do you guys have any questions about that red to green move or when a stock goes green to red or anything like that? It's kind of like the first red day setup. But 234, oh, shit, I think I might have stopped out. It's kind of like the first red day setup. But you don't have to really kind of wait for it to be red. This is kind of like the first red day setup is if a stock is going green, green, green for three, four, five, six days, and you don't know when the pullback is. But on a low hanging fruit, if it kind of gaps up a little bit and goes red, that gives you the signal that you should probably get in there, at least a small starter piece. Is that clear to you guys? Do you guys have any questions about that? There's no questions about that. Where is your entry? What is my entry on what? Also, here's the problem, right? TRNX. I really missed the big move down. I missed the big move on FFHL. I missed it, right? And normally, during these times, I don't trade. I forced myself to leave at 1030 because I know that I lose my edge after 1030. Yet, here I am today at Prime Zombie Times, took a short and lost money, right? I just lost money while I was still walking because I had my stop in on TRNX. And I shouldn't have taken that trade. Even if it's a small trade, even if I took 1,000 shares or 2,000 shares, I only lost 200, 300 bucks. Yeah, it's not really anything. It's not gonna make me broke losing that money, but I deviated from my process. I shouldn't have been trading that shit, right?  So, again, pay the price today. I deviated from my process.  It creates a sense of comfort that, hey, I broke my rules this time and I made money. I could just do it again and make money again. But today, although I recognize that I was trading during Zombie Times, although I knew that I shouldn't have been doing this, at least there was a light bulb in my head that said, hey, use 1 tenth of your size. If your max size is 10,000 shares, use only 1,000 shares. That way, if something goes wrong, you can kind of control yourself. So that's kind of what happened today. I lost a little bit of money during Zombie Times. Just now, while I'm doing this recap, but it's not really the end of the world.  Stick to your process. If you deviate, you're gonna lose money. That's it. Doesn't matter if I lose $100 or $10,000, it still feels the same. Does anyone have any questions about that? Let me see what question I got. Do you look to get in around the low of the day or high of the day? Well, for example, I think on FFHL green to red was 628. I would just short it 628 if it went red. That's it. When is the next meetup? Well, here's the thing. We have a bunch of local meetups every single month. We actually had one last week in Chicago. So any member could organize their own local meetup. And if I'm around or fouls around or if any of the moderators are around, we'll come in and we'll support you. We'll have fun, we'll drink together, we'll eat together. We'll have MIC pick up the tab. But as for a bigger event style like we did in Philadelphia, that's not gonna be for a couple more months. That's not gonna be for a couple more months because those events take months to plan and they are super, super expensive to do. How many go-to setups do you have? Well, the main steps that I use are the ones that we teach at MIC, right? So the main ones that I like, my highest-paying one is the deathline setup. I love the first red day setup and I love the low-hanging fruit setups. Can you talk about trading routes sometimes in your videos, benefits of understanding them? Yeah, so routes are, the only thing that you really have to know about routes is this. Which route gives you the best ECN rebate, right? So number one is if you don't know what a rebate is, if you do not know what an ECN rebate is, I'll give you a quick explanation of that. It is when you put an order on the bid or the ask, as someone fills you, if you are using the proper route, you will get paid, you will get paid to post. That means you're adding liquidity. If you are taking the ask or hitting the bid, you are removing liquidity and you pay a fee. So if you are posting on the bid or posting on the ask and someone else is filling your order, you will get a rebate. Bao and I usually are able to trade for free because the ECN rebate that you get covers your commission costs, right? So let's say for example, you're paying 0.002 a share in commission. If you are using the proper route, you will get a 0.002 rebate, making your trade for free. Yet, if you take liquidity, you will have 0.002 for your commission, then probably 0.002 that you have to pay for taking liquidity. The route that I use on Cobra is CAR-K-L-C-A-R-C-A-L. That gives us the highest rebate if you are posting on the bid or the ask. Say you short that 6.28 red to green spot with that same spot become your new risk. Ideally, 6.50 would be my risk. So I will be risking 20 cents to make 50, 60 cents on a down move. So the key of this, that was a great question. That was a great question. The key to that is to always add liquidity as much as you can because the more that you add liquidity, the cheaper trading will be and the less trouble you will have. If you are not slapping the bid and slapping the ask and you are just waiting for your orders to fill, you will have, you will just be patient. That's why fantasy orders. That's why Bao has his fantasy orders out, right? Yes, it's a great strategy. Having your fantasy orders out is great. But if someone hits them, you're getting paid to trade, right? So be sure to talk to your broker about using the proper routes.  So be sure to be using a broker that gives you a rebate so that you can essentially trade for free if you are adding liquidity. Hope that answers your question. Again, feel free to ask questions. Don't kind of feel shy. This is your opportunity to ask and we'll take it from there. Do you think YouTube Live is good or do you think Instagram Live is better? I know a lot of people like the YouTube Live because you don't need to use a cell phone. I personally don't mind, I can use whatever. I kind of personally think YouTube Live is a little bit better because it's more accessible to people, but I'm always open to doing whatever the community wants. What else did you guys trade today? This RKDA is, okay, it doesn't come back. How to hit the bid instead of the ask while trading? How to hit the bid instead of the ask? What does that mean? Again, these walks or these live videos are to kind of walk you through my process before the day and after the day, right? Before the day and after the day because this is kind of when everything is fresh on my mind. This is when everything is still going on because as you could tell, in one hour, I'm gonna forget the tickers I traded because my mind is already on to the next thing. What's up, Miguel? YouTube Live allows me to chat at work. I guess then we're gonna continue to do these YouTube Lives. Miguel, where are you from, man? But I like this kind of interactive aspect of it, right? I like the interactive aspect of chatting and talking and everything. How is the video quality? Is it clear? Am I blurry? How are we looking? Sorry that I have so many questions. I just wanna make sure that everything is kind of perfect for you guys. Are these kids biking behind me? How are these kids doing? Must be nice to be riding a bike at 11.30, right? But who am I to talk? I'm walking around at 11.30. Pick up a weekend job so that I can save money and trade and get into MIC. For those of you that are in MIC, how do you guys like it in here? Or how do you guys like MIC? Explain to people what they're missing out by not being in MIC. You could hear me, but you'll think I'm biased. You should probably hear what the actual members are saying. Sorry, lots of wind. Again, ask your questions in here. Feel free, anything you have, let's kind of go through it and let's review it. I like to keep these videos short and sweet because the longer the videos are, people lose attention. So, hands down, what is your favorite setup and why? The death line setup is my favorite setup because it's so simple and has a 90% win rate. MIC is not short biased. Yes, we do have a lot of short traders, but believe it or not, we have half long and half short traders. And right now, the long traders are thriving because the market is hot for longs. So, the setups that we use can be used for longs and shorts. We have a first bounce strategy that is very, very popular with newer traders. And simple, it works and we have some free videos on YouTube about it as well. Do you ever use tick charts? I think tick charts are a scam. That's what all the furus used to kind of convince you that their nano pullbacks or micro pullbacks are real. So, just fake news, man. Don't listen to those tick charts. Don't pay attention to that. The lowest timeframe you should be using is one minute and even that's probably sometimes too small. Hello?  I'm glad you guys all like MIC. We put our heart and souls into it. It's literally 15 hours a day that we put into it every single day. And the fact that it's working and the fact that traders are becoming consistently profitable after it only motivates us to work harder. There was a comment that someone put in. I think it was Scott in After Hours the other day and he's like, we're gonna look back in three years and we're gonna find out that thousands of people at MIC became successful millionaire traders. And we're gonna look back and see that it all started from this one crazy idea that me and Val had. So I fully, fully, fully firmly believe that so many members, if they have not already found success are going to find success. And the truth of the matter is in one year of kind of being around, we've already pumped out tons of consistently profitable traders in just one year. So it makes me think that, hey, where are we gonna be in three to five years? Yeah, so we're growing. We're gonna raise prices. So this is kind of what's gonna happen. We can't afford to throw free events for everyone anymore. We just can't do it. It's impossible. So we have a couple of options that we're kind of weighing to try to figure out. Annual and lifetimes are still gonna come in for free. We might be opening it up for monthly members for a fee and we might be opening it up for non-members for a higher fee. We also plan on raising our prices for the monthly annual and lifetime in about a month or so. And anyone that signs up before that will be grandfathered in. So the 179 will go to 189 a month. 1790 will be 1890 and the lifetime will be from 5,000 to 5,500. So that's all gonna be in about one to two months. But if you sign up before that, we're gonna grandfather you in and get you stuck in. It's so overpriced already. I disagree completely. You could ask anyone in MIC that's in there, you are paying less than a broker commission a day to be in MIC. If you're making over $5 a day, you could afford MIC. So if you think it's overpriced, you probably can't afford to be trading in the first place. That's just the truth, man. I don't need you to join MIC because I know that I should be spending my time to people that actually care to improve. If you are already in the club, you will be grandfathered in at your rate and you will never pay a dollar more. But when we raise prices, all the new people will be paying more. It's just we can't be given all the stuff away for free. We have four free trading DVDs. We have seven to eight new videos a week. I mean, what else? What more could we do? What more could we do? You know, we don't have any inner circle, millionaire challenge, $10,000 a year programs. You know, we're not, we're trying to do everything we can and we're just trying to keep the lights on at this point because these events are expensive. Everything is expensive and all adds up. The people that are not in MIC are the ones that always say it's too expensive. It's less than $5 a day. It's less than $5 a day. Instead of going to Starbucks and getting a coffee, getting a frappuccino for $5 because I used to work there, it's 80% ice.  That's it. That's just the way it works. Again, I don't want to spend my time trying to convince you to join because my time is spent on the people that actually are here to improve, to learn and that's what happens. If you spend the time and put in the work, you become consistently profitable. It's how it works. That's literally how it works. If you don't want to put in the work or if you're too busy complaining about $5 a day, your life is not in order to be trading. So again, you could say what you want but at the end of the day, you should ask the members what they think and you don't have to listen to me. Listen to what they say. Anyway, sorry that went on a tangent. That just kind of pisses me off. Hey, Alex, what's the average time you get locates? Anywhere between, I think it's like 7.45 to 8.30 in the morning. Around that time is usually earlier than better, obviously but that's usually the time that I'm looking at. When are you raising prices? Probably in about a month or two. Probably in about a month or two. And again, all the members that are in the family, in the community right now, their prices will never go up. It is only the new people. Let me think if there's any other topics I want to talk about. Oh, we have a, what is my tip for people under PDT? That's okay, so here's the thing about PDT. A lot of people bash on it and a lot of people think it's bad and I agree it sucks and it's annoying but being under PDT forces you to only trade the best setups possible. So my advice for someone under PDT is back test your strategy, find out what you are the best at and only wait for those setups to come and because you only have three shots a week on those setups, be extremely selective and wait for them.  How do you set goals in trading? Is it how much you want to make or is it more on playing the right setup? So you should never create goals on trading based on how much money you want to make because that only clouds your judgment. It makes you feel that if you're not hitting that number that you are underperforming and it makes you want to push harder and get to that number but the truth of the matter is your goal setting in trading should be did you stick to your rules? You made a plan for this trade.  What are you doing right? What are you doing wrong? Your plan to get better should be based on the trades you are taking not based on the amount of money you're making and a monthly upgrade to annual or lifetime at the original prices after the prices raised. Yes, if you are a current member we'll grandfather right at the old prices.  If you paid $10 for locates they're gonna sell it back to you for $1. Don't fall into the scam, bro. Have I experienced paranormal activity at my house? Not yet. So you're saying useful size with the setups you know under PDT. Thank you. So here's the thing. First things first, did you pay for trade? Do you have a system that works?  If the answer is no, you have to go back to paper. First, prove to yourself that you could do it on paper. And then when you prove to yourself you could do it on paper, you go in with real money but only 100 shares max size. The reason why you use 100 shares max size is so that when you do lose money you understand what it feels like because losing money on paper and losing real money is very, very different. So use 100 shares and lose that money. After you have proved that on paper you are consistent and you make money using 100 shares on that setup only wait for that setup on PDT and that attack. What was it like trading profit at SMB? Just curious. It was a very interesting experience. It was a very interesting experience. I mean, I didn't know what to expect. They put me next to their best trader, Shark, making four, five, six, almost $10 million a year. So I learned a lot about him and let me tell you the one thing. The one biggest thing that I learned from trading next to Shark who's making a shitload of money and he is a short-buy trader. The reason why he is so successful is this. Listen up. It is because of his risk management. If he's wrong, if he's wrong, you know what he does? He cuts it off immediately. He'll take the ask. He'll market order out if he has to.  So if he is wrong and he knows he is wrong, he gets out on the ask no matter what. No matter what he gets out on the ask. He doesn't wait for a dip. He doesn't wait for anything.  And if he's right and his plan is going according to, like his thesis is going according to his plan, his motherfucker will double, triple, quadruple down, get him as big as he can and ride it down. So risk management is number one. If you are wrong and you know you are wrong, take the ask and get the hell out. So that's number one thing that I learned from him. So that's it guys. I'm gonna kind of wrap this up. This was a good session. I like doing these YouTube lives. So thanks everyone for showing up and I will probably see you tomorrow.


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Hello everyone welcome back to another session in dentistry and more Today's topic in conservative dentistry is mattresses So last session we have seen two separators. So where we studied about wedges and other types of two separators So this will be a continuation of that chapter So mattresses so mattressing is a procedure whereby a temporary wall is created opposite to axial walls Surrounding areas of the two structure that were lost during cavity preparation So we are creating a temporary wall here. Okay, so we are creating a temporary wall here So that is nothing but mattressing. It's a procedure by a Temporary wall is created to the axial walls Okay, surrounding areas of the two structure that were lost during the cavity preparation So this spot is lost during cavity preparation So we create a temporary wall to help us in the restoration procedure So that is mattressing so matrix is a Device used during restorative procedures to hold the plastic restorative material within the tooth while it is sitting So this process is known as mattressing and this Device is known as matrix Okay So what are the ideal requirements of a matrix? So it should be Very easy to use so the retainer or its handle should not interfere with the condensation of the restoration Or patient discomfort. So this is known as retainer. This is a band So we have many types of retainers and band So the retainer or its handle so the retainer and its handle It should not Interfere with the condensation of the restoration or patient comfort And it should be rigid the matrix should be rigid enough to confine the restorative material As it is condensed under pressure and should not get displaced easily from its position. So it should be Hold the restoration while it is being condensed while it is being restored. It should not get displaced That is a prime function of matrix And it should provide proper proximal contact and contour and there should be a positive Proximal pressure Okay, so Positive proximal pressure means The matrix should exert a positive pressure against the adjacent tooth So there will be a tooth here, right? So this will be the Adjacent tooth So it should exert a positive pressure against the adjacent tooth during the insertion of the restoration so that after its removal Normal contact between teeth is established. So this should exert a positive pressure here So that even after the removal of this matrix The normal contact between teeth is Established So that is positive proximal pressure the next one is it should be non reactive It should not react or stick to the restorative material It should be inexpensive and it should be easy to sterilize So these are the ideal requirements of a matrix So the functions of matrix is to confine the restorative material while it is hardening to establish the optimal Contact and contours of the restoration to prevent interval overhangs of restoration To provide acceptable surface texture for restoration So this is a occlusion view if we take a side view Okay, so here we are keeping the matrix. So if it is not proper what happens is The restoration it will be coming downward. Okay, so this is a Jinjevel line So there will be Jinjevel overhangings of restoration. It should not be there. It should be properly contoured. Okay So if it is not properly placed, there will be Jinjevel overhangings of the restoration so Now let's learn the parts of matrix So any system will be having basically two parts one is a retainer and the second one is band So this is a retainer. Okay, so this is a retainer and this is band Band is what we attach to the retainer. Okay So the retainer and band. So these are two parts of matrix So retainer it holds a band in desired position and shape. Okay So this one we attach this to This retainer to the desired position. So it has many Halls here so we can adjust it depending upon the size of tooth So it may be this retainer this retainer may be a metallic ring or a mechanical device Or a impression combat Whereas a band it is a piece of metal. Okay, so this is a band Okay, so this is a band which is a piece of metal or polymeric material Used to give support and give form to the restorative material so the Function of retainer is to hold the band. Okay, so this is actually banned. So there will be a retainer here Which is holding this band in position So band is a piece of metal or material Used to give support and give form of form to the restorative material. Okay, so commonly used material for bands are Stainless steel, poly acetate, cellulose acetate or cellulose nitrate So the bands are usually available as strips of various dimension using point zero zero One two point zero zero two inches. This is the dimensions and width will be three by 16 or One by four inches for permanent teeth and five by sixteen inch for the deciduous teeth So the matrix band should extend two mm above the marginal ridge and One mm below the ginger well margin of the preparation. Okay So when we are placing this matrix band, it should be two mm above the marginal ridge height. Okay So if this is a marginal ridge height, it should be two mm above and It should be One mm below the ginger well margin of the preparation. So the preparation is here. It should be below one mm Below the ginger well margin of the preparation So now let's move on to the classification of matrices So classification There are very many types of classification first one type of band material that is stainless steel copper bands Cellulose acetate poly acetate then depending upon its preparation One is mechanical matrix It includes ivory number one ivory number eight then custom made or anatomic matrix, which is Compound supported matrix then depending upon the mode of retention with retainer and without retainer The auto matrix system is without retainer with retainer are ivory number one eight and top form air Depending upon the cavity preparation for class one. We use double-banded toffel mare class two views ivory number one eight T-band or auto matrix for class three we can use a shaped Or my last trip or cellophane strip for class four again, we can use cellophane trips Class five we can use tin foil matrix or window matrix So there are many classification, but All together we classified as ivory number one number eight toffel mare Compound supported matrix or custom made matrix D-band matrix a strip matrix pre-contoured matrix copper band matrix Auto matrix clear plastic matrix window matrix and tin foil matrix So mainly we'll be studying about ivory number one Ivory number eight and toffel mare. So toffel mare is most commonly asked essay question or short essay this matrix system is commonly asked as a essay question So it is very important, especially the parts of toffel mare You need to draw the picture and draw the parts and explain the function of each part So we'll start with ivory number one matrix. So this matrix consists of a stainless steel band So this is a stainless steel band which encircles one proximal surface of posterior tooth. So let it be the band stainless steel band which encircles one posterior Proximal surface of posterior tooth. This is attached to the retainer via a wedge shape projection. So this is the wedge shape projection, okay So this will be this band will be attached to this wedge shape projection on the retainer and There will be an adjusting screw here At the end of the retainer which adapts the band to the proximal contour of the prepared tooth. So this retainer Bose can be adjusted by Turning this clockwise Anticlockwise and attach the band to here depending upon the size and contour of the Tooth where we are going to place restoration So as the adjusting screw is rotated clockwise the wedge shape projection Engage the tooth at the end pressure of the unprepared proximal surface. So we attach the band to this wedge shaped projections of retainer and we place it on the Proximal side of the unprepared tooth and turn it clockwise Turn the screw clockwise and engage it properly So it is indicated for restoring a unilateral class 2 cavity Especially when the contact on the unprepared side is very tight So we can use it on the class 2 preparation when the contact is very tight the main advantages of number one is It is very economical and can be sterilized But the disadvantage is it's difficult to apply and remove while removing the chance of Dislourishment of the restoration Now we have ivory number 8 matrix. So it is Consist of a band that encircles the entire crown of the tooth. So this is just Covering one proximal side. Okay, whereas the ivory number 8. This is the band. Okay Oh, we can see this is a retainer and this is the band. We attach this band. So this is the band We attach this band to this retainer. So this encircles Completely, okay, not just one side. It encircles completely. That is a difference So the circumference of the band can be adjusted by similarly by the adjusting screws here So it is indicated in unilateral and bilateral class 2 preparation. That is especially MOT, meso-occlusio Distal preparation. So if you have a cavity here also We can use the ivory number 8 with a completed band. Now, let's move on to the Toffel Mer. So Toffel Mer matrix is the most widely accepted matrix system for the class 2 preparation or posterior proximal wall adjustment So Toffel Mer was designed by Dr. BF Toffel Mer, which is also known as universal matrix. Okay So universal Because it can be used in all types of tooth preparation of posterior teeth So it is basically indicated in class 1 buckle or lingual extension unilateral or bilateral class 2 MOD preparation class 2 tooth preparation, which is having more than two missing walls so can be Used in all these types of preparation. Okay, that is Toffel Mer So the main advantages are its ease of use. It provides good contact and contour for most Amalgam restoration. It is rigid and stable But the disadvantages are it does not provide optimum contour and contact for posterior composite restoration And it is not useful for extensive class 2 restorations So now let's move to the parts of Toffel Mer, which is very important So the parts are It has got head. Okay, so head part. So This is the head part So this part is known as head So it accommodates the matrix band. So here we are Keeping the matrix band. It is a U-shaped with two slots. It is U-shaped with two slots Okay You might not be able to Understand it very clearly. Anyway, it is U-shaped with two slots The open side of the head should be facing Ginchavalli when band is placed around the tooth. Okay, so this is the open side Okay, so this should be facing Ginchavalli. It should be Ginchavalli Facing when the band is placed around the tooth So then the second part is the slide. Okay So slide is the diagonal slot. So can see a slide here This is a diagonal slot. Okay slide So that is the Amount of band extending beyond the slot. Okay, there we keep that is a diagonal slot where the ends of the band So here we attached the band and the remaining portion will be engaged to this diagonal slot now we have two two Null nuts So knurled nuts one is a smaller one and one it is bigger one So this is the outer nut. This is the inner nut So the two knurled nuts in retainer Which is also known as rotating spindle Okay Rotating spindle is knurled Nuts So the large knurled nut near the matrix band. So this is the large or inner knurled nut So which helps in adapting the loop of matrix band against the tooth and Also helps in adjusting the size of the loop of matrix band against the tooth. So if we have a toffel mirror here, okay This is a small knurled nut and this is a larger one and we have Similarly attached here. So this Large one which is changing the size of the loop And Against the tooth. Okay or the adapting the loop of matrix band against the tooth Where as a small one. So this is the outer or small one small Null nut which helps in tightening the band to the retainer. Okay tightening the band to the retainer the first one Was helping the proper adaptation second one tightening the band to the retainer and assembly of retainer the loop extending from retainer can project in Like straight which is used near anterior teeth or left or right used mostly in posterior areas of Oral cavity. So this knurled nuts Which is also known as knobs that is outer knob and inner knob and we have a diagonal slot here and we have guide slots So these slots used to position the matrix band either the left or right quadrant So that is present here The guide slots and also we have a spindle here. Okay So spindle which is also known as a pin So this internal screw like pin that fits into the diagonal slot to secure the ends of matrix band When assembling the retainer the spindle point must be clear of the slot into which the band slides Okay So that is the parts of Tafelmaier outer knob inner knob or outer nut or inner nut or Null nuts Null nuts that is a large Null nuts or smaller Null nuts and the diagonal slot This is a head part and This is a pin or spindle So we can have many types of bands. So the bands we use in Tafelmaier We can use flat bands or pre-conduced bands So flat bands are available in point zero zero two zero inches or point zero zero one five inches So it is available in three shapes. That is number one universal band number two MOD band and number three Narrow than the number two. So that is Tafelmaier Matrix system So the procedures starting with opening the large Null nuts so that the slide is at least One fourth inches from the head then hold the Null nut that is a larger one With one hand open the small nut in opposite direction for clearance of the diagonal slot for reception of the matrix band So the two ends of matrix band are secured together to form the loop or either or a pre-formed loop So place the ends of the band in diagonal slot Then the small Null nut is tightened. So this one is tightened first To secure the band to the retainer after securing the band tightly to the retainer then We adapt the band against the tooth by using the inner or larger Null nut So after that there will be wedge placement. Okay So similarly for procedure of removal Removal of retainer first small Null nut is moved counterclockwise to free the band from the retainer While rotating the smaller Null nut hold the larger nut In position then keep the intense finger on the occlusion surface of the band. So we need to keep the occlusion surface here Finger on occlusion surface to stabilize the band After that, we remove the retainer then the band. Okay carefully remove the band from each contact point Support the occlusion surface of the restoration while removing the band A condenser can be held against the marginal ridge of the restoration. So we can keep a condenser here So do not pull the band in occlusion direction rather move the band in facial or lingual Direction so bands can be cut near to the teeth or On the lingual side and try to pull it from the buckle side So we can cut it here and it can be pulled from the buckle side So that was about Toffelmare. It is very very important The parts of Toffelmare and the placement of Toffelmare and the removal of band and retainer from the tooth So all are important It is commonly asked as a question So now let's move to the next one that is a compound supported matrix Or custom-made or anatomic matrix. Okay, this one so it is Entirely handmade and contoured specifically for each individual So this band is contoured with an egg-shaped burnisher on a paper pad to achieve the approximate Proximal as well as the facial and lingual contours Then the band is positioned and stabilised by applying the soft impression compound facially, lingually and occlusively over the occlusional surface of adjacent tooth. So we can keep here Okay That is compound supported matrix So we can support the matrix using by keeping facial lingual and occlusional surface of adjacent tooth So following this amalgam condensation and carving can be completed So it is commonly indicated in class 2 cavities involving Havana both proximal surfaces So next we have the D-Band matrix. So D-Band matrix It is preformed t-shaped stainless steel matrix without a retainer So it will be like this So the long arm of t surrounds the tooth and overlaps short arm of t. So this is a long arm This is a short arm. So this surrounds the short arm Then the band is adjusted according to the circumference of tooth stabilised by wedging and supported by low fusing compound So it is commonly indicated for class 2 cavities involving one or both proximal surfaces Simple and inexpensive rapid and easy to apply So next we have S-shaped matrix. It is used for restoring distal part of canine and premolars So if we have canine here premola here So we use a S-shaped okay matrix band. So this is used for distal part of canine and premolar. We have a distal part of canine and premolar so Stainless steel matrix band is taken and twisted to Make it like a S with the help of mouth, middle and hand So in pre-contoured matrix it consists of small pre-contoured dead soft metal matrices ready for application to tooth So they are selected according to the tooth to be restored and wedged to adapt to dune travel contour So it is used for both amalgam and composite restoration easy to apply It is Actually very expensive So copper band matrix system is also there. So copper band of assorted sizes makes excellent matrices cylindrical in shape And can be selected according to the diameter of the tooth to be restored So the bands are softened by heating to redness in a flame and then quench in water after this The the bands can be stretched and shaped with contouring place Then the crucial height of band is adjusted with contouring place The band is contoured to reproduce the proper shape of the contact area Then keep it in position So it is mainly indicated for badly broken teeth, especially those receiving pin amalgam restoration And for complex situations like glass tooth cavities with large buckle or lingual extension The automatic system Which is an alternative to the universal retainer So there is no retainer used to hold the band in place So bands are already formed into a circle and are available in assorted sizes in both metal and plastic So automatic system is there is no retainer The band itself act as a retainer So each band has a coil like auto lock loop So a tightening wrench is inserted into the coil and turned clockwise to tighten the band When finished the tightening wrench is inserted into the coil and turned counterclockwise So that is a auto matrix band which is similarly available in these inches So It is mainly indicated in complex amalgam restoration where one or more cusp to be replaced The clear plastic matrix They are transparent plastic matrix employed as matrices for tooth coloured restorations because they allow light to pass through For the polymerization So it can be celluloid cellophane or myelastrips So it is mainly indicated in class 3 or class 4 tooth coloured restoration Now we have Window matrix window matrix its modification of toffel mer matrix used for class 5 amalgam restoration So the contra angle toffel mer retainer so The toffel mer retainer the Band is sometimes contra angle, okay So there are two types of toffel mer is available straight angle and contra angle So this contra angle toffel mer retainer is applied on the lingual side of tooth So a window is cut in the band slightly smaller than the outline of the cavity So we make a Opening within the band It is slightly Smaller than the outline of the cavity. So wedges are placed in approximately Then the amalgam condensation will be done The last one is tinfoil matrix. It is used in again class 5 restoration for conventional GIC cement So tinfoil may be pre-shaped and cut according to the gingervel third of buckle and lingual surface of tooth to be restored Then band is adjusted So that it extends 1 to 2 mm circumferentially beyond the cavity margins So this can be adapted on the cavity by means of tweezer after placing GAC Then once the restoration sets the tinfoil Can be peeled away So that is all about matrix Various matrices So we have studied a lot of matrices But the most important ones are ivory number one ivory number eight and toffel mer and toffel mer is a Commonly asked question. So always draw a proper Neat diagram with labeling and explain about each part and its function And how to place it and how to Remove it. Okay. So hope you understood this concept of matrices. So I'll come up with a new topic in conservative industry. Thank you