7th MME Staff and Graduate Student Colloquium 2018

Date: Friday 30 November 2018
Time: 4.30pm - 8.30pm
Venues: TR 201 (Math Edn) & TR 203 (Math)
Registration is closed.

Abstracts

4.30pm - 5.00pm	Registration (TR 201)
5.00pm	Opening remarks by Head MME (TR 201)
5.15pm - 6.15pm	Concurrent Session I (20 mins presentation + 10 mins discussion) Mathematics Education Chair: Prof Berinderjeet Kaur Mathematical Modelling in Schools – an applied mathematician’s lament A/P Ang Keng Cheng A Study of Malaysian Teacher Characteristics and Grade 8 Student Engagement in Mathematics Classrooms: Evidence from TIMSS 2015 Mok Yuen Teng Mathematics Chair: A/P Dong Fengming On the skewness of Cartesian products with trees Tay Eng Guan On the existence of real roots of chromatic polynomials of hypergraphs Zhang Ruixue
6.15pm - 7.00pm	Dinner
7.00pm - 8.30pm	Concurrent Session II (20 mins presentation + 10 mins discussion) Mathematics Education Chair: Prof Berinderjeet Kaur Orchestrating discussions around typical problems: noticing as pedagogical reasoning? Ast/P Choy Ban Heng & A/P Jaguthsing Dindyal A study of the school mathematics curriculum (secondary) Prof Berinderjeet Kaur et al. Mathematics Chair: A/P Dong Fengming An Open Problem in Domain Theory Ng Kok Min On the Evenly Spaced Topology on Z Jeremy Ibrahim Bin Abdul Gafar Hamilton Path Decompositions of Complete Multipartite Graphs Hang Hao Chuien