Wong Khoon Yoong

Name	Assoc. Prof. Wong Khoon Yoong PhD (Queensland), Dip Ed (Tasmania), B Sc Hons (Tasmania)
Location	Room 7-03-20
Contact	(65) 6790 3927
Email	khoonyoong.wong@nie.edu.sg
Personal Web	math.nie.edu.sg/kywong

Teaching Areas

	M Ed modules on Research and Issues in Mathematics Education, Teaching and Learning Theories in Mathematics Education, Critical Inquiry, and Mathematics Curriculum.
	Inservice modules on Multi-Modal Teaching Strategy (Lower Secondary Mathematics), National Education in Secondary Mathematics, and Action Research in Primary Mathematics.

Research Interest

His research in mathematics education encompasses several areas: comparative study of mathematics curriculum, multi-modal teaching strategy, learning difficulties in mathematics, problem solving heuristics, Logo and ICT, and mathematics teacher education. He is currently the principal investigator for the Singapore team in the IEA study on Teacher Education Study: Mathematics (TEDS-M). He has also published work in general education about pupils’ discipline problems, teacher concerns, and career choice of pupils. His work spans five countries, namely Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore.

Selected Publications

	Wong Khoon Yoong, Berinderjeet Kaur, Koay Phong Lee, & Jamilah binti Hj Mohd Yusof (2007). Singapore and Brunei Darussalam: Internationalisation and globalisation through practices and a bilateral mathematics study. In B. Atweh, A. Calabrese Barton, M. Borba, N. Gough, C. Keitel, C. Vistro-Yu & R. Vithal (Eds.), Internationalisation and Globalisation in Mathematics and Science Education (pp. 441-473). New York: Springer.
	Wong Khoon Yoong (2007). Introduction: A framework for learning to teach mathematics in primary schools. In P. Y. Lee (Ed.), Teaching primary school mathematics: A resource book (pp. 3-14). Singapore: McGraw-Hill Education (Asia).
	Wong Khoon Yoong & Low-Ee Huei Wuan (2006). In-class experiences of teachers and students during mathematics lessons: Case studies at Primary and Polytechnic levels. In Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng, Margery D. Osborne & Kerry Lee (Eds.), Redesigning pedagogy: Reflections on theory and praxis (pp. 101-117). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
	Wong, Khoon Yoong (2003). Mathematics-based national education: A framework for instruction. In S. Tan & C. B. Goh (Eds.), Securing our future: Sourcebook for infusing National Education into the primary school curriculum (pp. 117-130). Singapore: Pearson Education Asia.
	Wong Khoon Yoong, Zaitun Mohd Taha, & Veloo, P. (2001). Situated sociocultural mathematics education: Vignettes from Southeast Asian practices. In B. Atweh, H. Forgasz & B. Nebres (Eds.), Sociocultural research on mathematics education: An international research perspective (pp. 113-134). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.