Mathematics & Mathematics Education
ACADEMIC GROUP

16th MME Staff and Graduate Student Colloquium 2023
Date: Wednesday 15 November 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

Learnings from a multidisciplinary programmatic research project - Exploring and fostering metacognition for learning and transfer to pave the way for towards lifelong and lifewide learning
Lee Ngan Hoe et al.
Mathematics
Chair: A/P Dong Fengming

Weighted Generalized Crank Moments for $k$-colored Partitions
Toh Pee Choon
A Glimpse of Graph Colorings
Zhang Meiqiao
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

A study of out-of-school mathematics practice books for the PSLE in Singapore
Teo Pei Pei & Berinderjeet Kaur
Metacognition and flowcharting experience in the learning of trigonometry: case studies of two low attainers
Cheryl Lee Mei Chen
Elementary school students’ motivations in learning mathematics
Elaine Cai & Gregory Arief D. Liem
Mathematics
Chair: A/P Dong Fengming

NRAFHDLT: An R package for the high-dimensional location testing problems with the normal-reference approach
Wang Pengfei
An Elementary Exploration of Knot Theory
Deng Qingying
Polynomials of graphs
Fengming Dong
(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