Why I Find Important (WhyFI) in Mathematics Teaching: How Mainland China and Hong Kong Mathematics Teachers' Values Influence Their Teaching

Principal Investigator: ​Dr ​ZHANG Qiaoping

Values are the convictions which an individual has internalised as being the things of importance and worth, which regulate the ways in which a learner’s or teacher’s cognitive skills and emotional dispositions are aligned to learning/teaching in any given educational context. The study investigated what kinds of values were being held by the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong mathematics teachers within the reform-oriented classroom environment, and how and why these values are emphasized in each cultural context.

On computing the inverse of Vandermonde matrix

Principal Investigator: Dr ​​MAN Yiu Kwong

The main objective of the project was to develop a new approach to compute the Vandermonde matrix inverse by exploring the relationships between the elements of the Vandermonde matrix inverse and the associated partial fraction expansion. The study of the applications of the new approach in various areas, such as summation of series and polynomial interpolations, etc., were also included.

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