Mathematics & Mathematics Education
ACADEMIC GROUP

15th MME Staff and Graduate Student Colloquium 2023
Date: Wednesday 12 April 2023
Time: 4.30 pm – 8.30 pm
Venues: TR 211 (Math) & TR212 (Math Edn)
Registration : Closed

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Programme

4.30 pm – 5 pm Registration (TR 212)
5 pm Opening remarks by Head MME (TR 212)
5.15 – 6.15 pm Concurrent Session I (20 mins presentation + 10 mins discussion)
Mathematics Education
Chair: Prof Berinderjeet Kaur

Big ideas in mathematics: Exploring the dimensionality of big ideas in school mathematics
Jahangeer Bin Mohamad Jahabar
Opportunities to implement problem solving in Chinese mathematics classrooms within the context of the new mathematics curriculum standards
Li Xin
Mathematics
Chair: A/P Dong Fengming

Orders - their roles and relationships with other structures
Zhao Dongsheng
The Dinitz problem
Michelle Kwan
6.15 – 7.00 pm Dinner
7.00 – 8.30 pm Concurrent Session II (20 mins presentation + 10 mins discussion)]
Mathematics Education
Chair: Prof Berinderjeet Kaur

Chinese teacher belief in project-based learning: Focusing on mathematical problem solving
Liu Yixuan & Yiming Cao
Use of card sorting methodology to characterise a primary teacher’s mathematical knowledge for teaching
Chia Su Ngin
Unpacking the ‘M’ in integrated STEM tasks: A systematic review
Choy Ban Heng & Gabi Cooper
Mathematics
Chair: A/P Dong Fengming

An introduction to Gröbner bases
Alex Lim Tze Ming
Applying Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) to solve the Fermat Point Problem
Lim Chu Wei
Probabilistic powerdomains over finite posets: Distribution of weights
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