 This is Chico. Welcome to my channel and welcome to my Patreon page. Now, I've been online for a while. I started sharing information, blogging back in 2005, 2006 and in 2007 I started making math instructional videos and the way this project came about was I was helping out a family member that was living in the United States and I live in Canada and helping them try to learn math and after a few emails and getting together on vacations and what not, it became evident that the best way to do this was basically start off with some of the basic concepts of mathematics, make videos on those and post them online so that way the person could follow that information in a coherent train of thought, right? So I ended up doing that. I created my YouTube channel and started posting my math videos online and I got a lot of positive feedback. A lot of people telling me that the videos were helping them out and asking me to continue this work and so I did. Ten years later we went to, you know, towards the end of 2016, right now, coming onto 2017, I basically have about 480 videos, close to 500 videos online, 230 of which are specifically math related, a lot more of which are sort of have laid down the foundation where we're going to build a lot of mathematics on it, right? So basically the general gist of what I'm doing is sharing as much information as I can, being very math-centric because the ultimate purpose, the end goal of my game, is basically to create modules to cover all of high school mathematics, starting with the real number set and basic operations, going all the way to an introductory course on calculus and one for probability and statistics, okay? Now what I've done over the last few years is basically divided the math content into three different categories. One of them is ASMR math, which is geared towards sort of teaching the language of mathematics in a sort of a calm, chill, demeanor and the videos are in general very long. Some of the videos are sort of random, some of our batches of two or three videos that are related to each other and one of the main topics that we're covering in ASMR math right now is a full series for module and full module and trigonometry, higher level trigonometry, grade 12 trigonometry and one of the reasons I decided to start off with one of the main series, one of the first series that we're going to do for this math content with trigonometry is because trigonometry tends to take a lot of people out of the game and it's a very important concept to appreciate, to understand. So we have 44, about 44 videos for ASMR math, 20, you know, over 24 hours worth of content on there. The other category that I'm putting the math videos on, which is basically what I started off with, was the language of mathematics, which is geared towards teaching the syntax of the language of mathematics as rapidly as possible and that's sort of the type of videos I began this project with, which is basically taking my camera and my tripod and going around the city and finding walls where we could do mathematics on and we've done a lot of work in that in that section, in that, you know, for that material, for that content. We've got about 160 plus videos up, 24 hours of content and we've covered, you know, the real number set, basic operations, we've done factoring, some graphing, ratios, units, exponents and radicals, we've covered a lot of content on that, for that section and the third section, third main table of contents of who created is something called math in real life, which is geared towards taking the syntax of the language of mathematics and using it in the real world and we've touched on a few different topics on that, we've got together this sort of collaborative work with a friend of mine that does a lot of art, so we took a look at the mathematics of art and design, we've taken a look at the mathematics of food and farming, we've talked about the cyclic nature of the female menstrual cycle, we've taken a look at how fast a human punch is and a few other random videos, right, and we're going to continue to build a lot of content for that stuff, basically taking the syntax of the language of mathematics and using it in the real world, okay? So that's sort of the low down, the quick version of what I've been doing. On the Patreon page and on my site, I've provided all three tables of contents, if you want to take a look at those videos, there's about 230 plus videos strictly related to mathematics and all the descriptions, all the videos link up to a video that you can take a look at if you're interested in that, taking a look at of how I'm doing some of the work, okay? So that's basically what I'm doing and the end goal is again, basically to create enough content to cover all of high school mathematics, starting with the real number set and basic operations, going all the way to an introductory series on calculus and one for probability and statistics, okay? Basically calculus because calculus is us introducing time, the rate of change, into mathematics, trying to understand how that works and probability and statistics because that's probably one of the most important sections, one of the most important things we have to learn about mathematics, because it really deals with big data and how technology is allowing us to use that a lot of data in our everyday lives and improve our lives, okay? So basically, that's where I am right now. It's going to take me a long time to cover all of high school mathematics as you could guess, right? So what we're going to do is slowly over the over the next few years, put out modules covering specific topics and specific subjects, right? We're going to put out modules talking about exponents and radicals and we're going to put out modules talking about art in the mathematics of art and design or mathematics of food and farming or mathematics of anything else that we want to do, right? Taking the syntax of the language of mathematics and using it in the real world. So basically, I'm here to ask for your help with this Patreon page and what I've done is basically created you know, levels, tiers, as Patreon calls them, where you can support this work and basically the levels are broken down to $1, $2, $5, $10, $20 and $50 donations, I guess, support on a monthly basis and for your support, basically what we're going to do, we're going to put that money aside, basically accumulate your support and when the module are available, maybe in DVD format and booklets and exercises and solutions or you know, pay as you go or whatever it's going to be, it's basically going to be modules being put together and offered to people. So when those modules come out, basically what you can do is take the funds that you've committed to my Patreon page, accumulate it up to that point and use them to purchase the different modules, okay? And you don't have to start purchasing right off the bat with the first module that we put out if you're not interested in it. What you can do is hold off and see the modules that come out and which ones you're interested in them, okay? So this is going to be an extended project. It's going to take a long time to do and the material is going to come on slowly and slowly and by the end, probably take me another 10 years or so to do it, we're going to have modules covering all of high school mathematics and as an incentive for you to support this project, to join this project, basically what I'm offering is instead of having little trinkets and stuff like this and I will offer those once we put them together, maybe t-shirts or what not, right? But basically for now, what I can promise you is this is if you decide to join a certain level then what we'll end up doing is having a Q&A session, basically open discussion with me at some point in the future, most likely at the end of this school year. So probably in the summer of 2017 we'll start doing this. So for each level of donations, maybe $1, $2, $5, $10, $20 or $50, for each group, what we're going to do is have a Q&A session where you can basically ask me almost anything you'd like and I try to answer your questions, concerns, inquiries to best of my abilities and hopefully we can set that up for it to be live stream as well. Okay? So that's where we are right now. This is my Patreon page. I do really hope that you decide to support this project. I do have a vision statement, my vision statement available on Patreon and all the table of contents with links to the specific videos available on the Patreon page as well. So you can take a look and see what we've done so far and that should give you a pretty good idea of what's coming up and what I plan to do for this project and what the end goal is. Okay. That's it for now. I hope you decide to join this project and I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye for now.