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Singapore Mathematical Society Project Festival Programme   All secondary school mathematics teachers and students are cordially invited to attend the presentations. No registration required.   Preliminary Round 1 Presentation Date: Saturday, 21 February 2009 Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm Venue: Raffles Girls’ School (Secondary), Raffles Institution, Hwa Chong Institution, Nanyang Girls’ High School Schedule of presentation: click here    Preliminary Round 2 Presentation Date: Saturday, 28 February 2009 Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm Venue: NUS High School, Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School (Secondary), Gan Eng Seng School, Dunman Secondary School Schedule of presentation: click here   Final Round Presentation (Festival Congress) Date: Saturday, 21 March 2009 Time: 8:45am - 1:00pm Venue: River Valley High School ( 2 Malan Road, Singapore 109433 , former SAJC campus) Schedule of presentation: click here   Schedule of Preliminary Round 1 Presentation (Feb 21, 2009) Session 1  Senior Section (Venue: Raffles Girls’ Secondary School)   Session 2  Senior Section (Venue: Raffles Institution) Session 3  Junior Section (Venue: Hwa Chong Institution) Session 4  Junior Section (Venue: Nanyang Girls’ High School) Preliminary round 1 Session 1 (@ Raffles Girls' Secondary School) Senior Section Presentation Time Project Title School 9.00-9.20 The Curving Ball Raffles Girls’ Secondary School 9.20-9.40 Kakuro Creation using Heuristics Raffles Girls’ Secondary School 9.40-10.00 Navigation using Shadow Measurements River Valley High School 10.00-10.20 Nexus – An interesting Maths game Raffles Institution 10.20-10.50 Tea break 10.50-11.10 Ultimate Geometry – Worksheets for Secondary Students Raffles Institution 11.10-11.30 “Marble”-less! North Vista Secondary School 11.30-11.50 Investigating the winning strategy for Big Two Hwa Chong Institution 11.50-12.10 A pictorial representation of sampling without replacement River Valley High School   Preliminary round 1 Session 2 ( @ Raffles Institution) Senior Section Presentation Time Project Title School 9.00-9.20 Mastermind – A Mathematical Analysis of its Variants Raffles Institution 9.20-9.40 Cryptographic Juggling: A Novel Way of Encryption Raffles Girls’ Secondary School 9.40-10.00 Chocolate and Stamp Cutting Problem River Valley High School 10.00-10.20 Magic Hexagons Nanyang Girls’ High School 10.20-10.50 Tea break 10.50-11.10 Fullerenes Raffles Institution 11.10-11.30 Dividing a polygon into two equal parts using Euclidean construction tool Anglo Chinese School (Indep.) 11.30-11.50 Ames Room Hwa Chong Institution 11.50-12.10 Dollar Auction Game Hwa Chong Institution   Preliminary round 1 Session 3 ( @ Hwa Chong Institution) Junior Section Presentation Time Project Title School 9.00-9.20 Towards a fairer MRT fare system Temasek Secondary School 9.20-9.40 The Golden Ratio NUS High School of Mathematics and Science 9.40-10.00 In the Nick of Time Zhenghua Secondary School 10.00-10.20 Fun with Figurate Numbers Raffles Girls’ Secondary School 10.20-10.40 Four3 isn’t 64! Hwa Chong Institution 10.40-11.10 Tea break 11.10-11.30 Symmetries of Functions Hwa Chong Institution 11.30-11.50 Use of Matrices in coding St. Andrew’s Secondary School 11.50-12.10 To Live & Let Live – Using Game Theory to Investigating Issues Surrounding the Kyoto Protocol Singapore Chinese Girls’ School 12.10-12.30 Towers of Hanoi Methodist Girls’ School   Preliminary round 1 Session 4 ( @ Nanyang Girls’ High School) Junior Section Presentation Time Project Title School 9.00-9.20 Game Solutions: The Strategy to Winning Tic-Tac-Toe Raffles Institution 9.20-9.40 HELP! I AM WET! TO WALK OR TO RUN? River Valley High School 9.40-10.00 Blokus Nanyang Girls’ High School 10.00-10.20 The Magic of Squares Nanyang Girls’ High School 10.20-10.40 Amidakuji MacPherson Secondary School 10.40-11.10 Tea break 11.10-11.30 Analysis of Quoridor NUS High School of Mathematics and Science 11.30-11.50 Game Analysis: Blokus Duo NUS High School of Mathematics and Science 11.50-12.10 The Prank Zhenghua Secondary School 12.10-12.30 Musical Numbers & Patterns Hua Yi Secondary School     Schedule of Preliminary Round 2 Presentation (Feb 28, 2009) Session 1 Senior Section (Venue: NUS High School of Mathematics and Science) Session 2 Senior Section (Venue: Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School (Secondary)) Session 3 Junior Section (Venue: Gan Eng Seng School) Session 4 Junior Section (Venue: Dunman Secondary School) Preliminary round 2 Session 1 ( @ NUS High School of Mathematics and Science) Senior Section Presentation Time Project Title School 9.00-9.20 Caught in the Rain Nanyang Girls’ High School 9.20-9.40 Cross Cutting Nanyang Girls’ High School 9.40-10.00 Beyond 24 NUS High School of Mathematics and Science 10.00-10.20 Folding Prismatoids Using a form of 3D Origami NUS High School of Mathematics and Science 10.20-10.50 Tea break 10.50-11.10 An Investigation on Magic Squares and Other Related Shapes Tanjong Katong Girls’ School 11.10-11.30 Combinatorial Chessboard Games Hwa Chong Institution 11.30-11.50 Latin Quadratus Hua Yi Secondary School 11.50-12.10 Crypto: Deciphering the Hidden Hua Yi Secondary School Preliminary round 2 Session 2 ( @ Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School (Sec)) Senior Section Presentation Time Project Title School 9.00-9.20 An Investigation into Geometry Formula Tanjong Katong Girls’ School 9.20-9.40 Maths Behind Card Tricks Xinmin Secondary School 9.40-10.00 Maths + Money = Life Madrasah Wak Tanjong Al-Islamiah 10.00-10.20 Permutable Primes Hwa Chong Institution 10.20-10.50 Tea break 10.50-11.10 Maxi Macs Return Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School (Secondary) 11.10-11.30 Shooting the Right Way Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School (Secondary) 11.30-11.50 M&M Packaging Methodist Girls’ School 11.50-12.10 Majority Vote Algorithm Tanjong Katong Girls’ School   Preliminary round 2 Session 3 ( @ Gan Eng Seng School) Junior Section Presentation Time Project Title School 9.00-9.20 Get Lifted River Valley High School 9.20-9.40 Picture Perfect River Valley High School 9.40-10.00 Multiplication Marsiling Secondary School 10.00-10.20 Apples and Bananas Xinmin Secondary School 10.20-10.40 Point Point Point Xinmin Secondary School 10.40-11.10 Tea break 11.10-11.30 Creative Use of Magic Squares Tanjong Katong Girls’ School 11.30-11.50 A study on the Average Pedestrian Waiting Time of a Traffic Light Tanjong Katong Girls' School 11.50-12.10 Broadband Internet Methodist Girls’ School 12.10-12.30 We Put the Text in Textile Methodist Girls’ School   Preliminary round 2 Session 4 ( @ Dunman Secondary School) Junior Section Presentation Time Project Title School 9.00-9.20 Blokus: A Strategy Hwa Chong Institution 9.20-9.40 Plinko~The unfair game Victoria School 9.40-10.00 Finding the Ratio of an Arbelos to its Biggest Semicircle Tanjong Katong Girls’ School 10.00-10.20 A Report on the Effects of Simple Probability on Hi-Lo Tanjong Katong Girls’ School 10.20-10.40 How to Tie the Shortest Shoelace? Tanjong Katong Girls’ School 10.40-11.10 Tea break 11.10-11.30 Ten Men Plan Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School (Secondary) 11.30-11.50 MatheMusic Singapore School of the Arts 11.50-12.10 How Safe is Your School? Methodist Girls’ School 12.10-12.30 Project Sunstrike Dunman Secondary School     Schedule of Final Round Presentation (March 21, 2009) Presentation Time Project Title Interview Time* School Section 8.45-9.00 Opening Speech 9.00-9.20 Folding Prismatoids using a form of 3D Origami 9.30-9.50 NUS High School of Mathematics and Science Senior 9.20-9.40 Symmetry of functions 10.10-10.30 Hwa Chong Institution (High School) Junior 9.40-10.00 Point point point 10.30-10.50 Xinmin Secondary School Junior 10.00-10.20 Ames Room 11.00-11.20 Hwa Chong Institution (High School) Senior 10.20-10.40 The Curving Ball 11.20-11.40 Raffles Girls’ School Senior 10.40-11.10   Break 11.10-11.30 Of Apples & Bananas 11.50-12.10 Xinmin Secondary School Junior 11.30-11.50 Analysis of Quoridor 12.30-12.50 NUS High School of Mathematics and Science Junior 11.50-12.10 Mastermind – A mathematical analysis of its variants 12.10-12.30 Raffles Institution Senior 12.10-12.30 Plinko – the unfair game 12.50-13.10 Victoria School Junior 12.30-12.50 Permutable Primes 12.50-13.10 Hwa Chong Institution (High School) Senior