Principal Investigator (2022-2024). Examining Hong Kong Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers’ School-Tertiary Transition through their Figured Worlds of School and Tertiary Mathematics Learning. Funded by CUHK -Research Committee - Direct Grants (HKD 79,800)

Principal Investigator (2020-2021). This pilot study aims to explore students’ problem-solving processes, mathematical thinking, and any CT- and mathematics-related challenges that emerge during problem-based digital making activities (Co-Is: Dr. To Chan, Dr. Marco Ho, Dr. Morris Jong). Funded by Chinese University of Hong Kong Direct Grant for Research ($39,300 HKD).  Research Output: Ng, O., & … Continue reading An Exploratory Study of Primary Students’ Mathematical Problem Solving Processes during Digital Making Activities

Co-Investigator. (2019-2021). This Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) project is comprised of researchers on five continents, who will work with curriculum experts and disciplinary specialists in mathematics, climate science and indigenous knowledge, in order to develop new courses, or adapt existing ones, in seven Universities. (PI: Dr. Alf Coles). Funded by the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) … Continue reading Innovating the Mathematics Curriculum in Times of Change: Towards Local and Global Relevance

Principal Investigator (2018-2020). This study explores the impact of teachers’ video-based noticing on what pre-service teachers find significant, the interpretations and pedagogical considerations they make in the teaching of STEM, their STEM conception, and self-efficacy of teaching STEM. Funded by Chinese University of Hong Kong Direct Grant for Research ($80,000 HKD). Research Output: Ng, O., & … Continue reading Using Video-based Noticing to Develop Pre-Service Teachers’ STEM Conception and Self-Efficacy of Teaching STEM in a Teacher Education Course

Principal Investigator (2016–2018). The purpose of this research is identify the growth of teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge and the development of students’ mathematical thinking as they are influenced by emergent technologies. (Co-I: Dr. To Chan) Funded by Chinese University of Hong Kong Direct Grant for Research ($40,000 HKD). Research Output: Ng, O., & Chan, T. … Continue reading Using Emergent Technologies to Enhance the Teaching and Learning of STEM in Hong Kong’s Secondary schools

Co-Investigator (2016–2019). This research investigates the effect of a teacher intervention program in engaging students with rich classroom discourse and rich learning opportunities in Hong Kong primary mathematics classrooms. (PI: Dr. Ni Yujing; Co-Is: Dr. Jinfa Cai, Dr. Alan Cheung, and Dr. Gaowei Chen) Funded by Research Grant Council of Hong Kong, General Research Fund ($736,500 HKD) … Continue reading Teacher Interventions in Engaging Students with Dialogic Discourse for Rich Learning Opportunity in Mathematics Classrooms