5th MME Staff and Graduate Student Colloquium 2017

Date: Friday 1 December 2017
Time: 4.30pm - 8.30pm
Venues: TR 202 (Math Edn) & TR 204 (Math)
Registration is closed.

Abstracts

4.30pm - 5.00pm	Registration (TR 202)
5.00pm	Opening remarks by Head MME (TR 202)
5.15pm - 6.15pm	Concurrent Session I (20 mins presentation + 10 mins discussion) Mathematics Education Chair: Prof Berinderjeet Kaur Quality of Singapore mathematics teachers’ written justifications Ast/P Chua Boon Liang Generalizing the functional rule for a figural quadratic pattern Tan Zhi Lie & Ast/P Chua Boon Liang A study of Indonesian grade 10 mathematics textbooks Teresa Wijaya Mathematics Chair: A/P Dong Fengming The Catalan conundrum Ast/P Toh Pee Choon The travelling salesman problem (TSP) Goh Han Sin
6.15pm - 7.00pm	Dinner
7.00pm - 8.30pm	Concurrent Session II (20 mins presentation + 10 mins discussion) Mathematics Education Chair: Prof Berinderjeet Kaur Encouraging construction of knowledge by students Pearly Lim Li Gek Relation understanding triumphs over instrumental understanding Teo Kwee Huang Rewording and anomalous information in statistics word problem solving Professor Queena Lee-Chua Mathematics Chair: A/P Dong Fengming Class of functions defined by means of neighbourhood assignments Dewi Kartika Sari Irreducible Completion of Spaces Ast/P Ho Weng Kin and Hadrian Andradi Topological data analysis A/P Zhao Dongsheng