20th MME Staff and Graduate Student Colloquium 2025

Date: Thursday 6 November 2025
Time: 4.30pm - 8.30pm
Venues: LT5 (Math Edn) & TR 201 (Math)
Registration will close on 25 October 2025 or when 50 people have signed up

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Programme | Abstracts


4.30pm - 5.00pmRegistration (LT 5)
5.00pmOpening remarks by Head MME (LT 5)
5.15pm - 6.15pm 

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

6.15pm - 7.00pmDinner
7.00pm - 8.30pm

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