Mathematics & Mathematics Education
DEPARTMENT

21st MME Staff and Graduate Student Colloquium 2026
Date: Thursday 16 April 2026
Time: 4.30 pm – 8.30 pm
Venues: TR 201 (Math) & LT 5 (Math Edn)
Registration will close on 9 April 2026 or when 50 people have signed up

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Programme

4.30 pm – 5 pm Registration (LT 5)
5 pm Opening remarks by Head MME (LT 5)
5.15 – 6.15 pm Concurrent Session I (20 mins presentation + 10 mins discussion)
Mathematics Education
Chair: A/P Tay Eng Guan

From Problem Solving to Practice: Designing a Coherent Mathematics Teacher Preparation Sequence at Roger Williams University
JENNY YSANKOVA
Mathematics
Chair: Prof Dong Fengming

Recent Results on Hamiltonian Properties of Graphs
TIAN TAO
The Bin Packing Problem
RAYNER TAN CHEK KHAI
6.15 – 7.00 pm Dinner
7.00 – 8.30 pm Concurrent Session II (20 mins presentation + 10 mins discussion)]
Mathematics Education
Chair: A/P Tay Eng Guan

A Teacher’s Interpretation of Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract and his design and enactment of a lesson on solving Word Problem
TOH TIN LAM
Exploring Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Support of Student Metacognitive Experiences in the Mathematics Classroom
LEE MEI LING SHARON
What did CHATGPT “notice” about prime numbers? Insights from an AI-generated Lesson Play
CHOY BAN HENG
Mathematics
Chair: Prof Dong Fengming

Heteroscedastic General Linear Hypothesis Testing Problem for HDLSS: a Normal Reference F-type test
WANG PENGFEI
Lattices of Scott-closed Sets
BRIAN CHEW (ZHOU YIKAI)
Two-sample tests for equality of covariance matrices
LIM HWEE MIN VIVIAN
(4.30 pm – 5 pm)
Registration
(5 pm )
Opening remarks by head MME (TR722)
(5.15 – 6.15 pm)
Concurrent Session I (15 mins presentation + 15 mins discussion)
Mathematics Education (TR 721)
MME Staff – Ast/P Leong Yew Hoong
Proving without proofs
Graduate Student – Tan Liang Soon
Professional development for teachers of mathematical modelling in Singapore
Mathematics (TR 722)
MME Staff – Ast/P Toh Pee Choon
What is the crank of a partition?
Graduate Student – Ng Kok Min
Quasi-metric spaces and their corresponding poset of formal balls
(6.15 – 7.00 pm)
Dinner
(7.00 – 8.30 pm)
Concurrent Session II (15 mins presentation + 15 mins discussion)]
Mathematics Education (TR 721)
Graduate Student – Romina Yap Ann Soon

Using activity theory to study the development of an (aspiring) professional learning community
Graduate Student – Katie Bueker-Sibbit
Informing Mathematics Pedagogy: Singapore Practices and US Reform
MME Staff – Prof Berinderjeet Kaur
Teaching for Metacognition – Teachers working and learning collaboratively in two-tiered communities of practice
Mathematics (TR 722)
Graduate Student – Dewi Kartika Sari
A new topology on the Denjoy space
Graduate Student – Ng Boon Leong
Chromatic equivalence classes of complete tripartite graphs
MME Staff – Ast/P Ho Weng Kin
Rough set theoretic approach to domain theory