Mathematics & Mathematics Education
DEPARTMENT

20th MME Staff and Graduate Student Colloquium 2025
Date: Thursday 6 November 2025
Time: 4.30 pm – 8.30 pm
Venues: TR 201 (Math) & LT 5 (Math Edn)
Registration will close on 25 October 2025 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 Leong Yew Hoong

Big Idea in School Mathematics: Some thoughts
Toh Tin Lam
Examining a student’s attempts at solving challenging word problems through the lens of cognitive-metacognitive interplay and student noticing
Melissa Ng Mei Paoo
Mathematics
Chair: Prof Dong Fengming

A domain model of the real line and generalizations
Zhao Dongsheng
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 Leong Yew Hoong

Investigating secondary students’ procedural Skills, conceptual Understanding, and application of measures of central tendency
Chen Kexin
Making metacognition visible: Enhancing problem solving in a Chinese primary mathematics classroom
Jin Shiqi
A framework for computational thinking in the mathematics classroom: An activity for teaching and research
Tay Eng Guan
Mathematics
Chair: Prof Dong Fengming

The Aldous Property of Cayley Graphs on Symmetric Groups
Li Yuxuan
Finite topological spaces with non-trivial homotopy groups
M. KYRA SAANVI
Are Finitely Separated Domains Retracts of Bifinite Domains?
Ho Weng Kin
(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