Lara Alcock

Lara Alcock is a British mathematics educator. She is a reader in mathematics education at Loughborough University, head of the Mathematics Education Centre at Loughborough, and the author of several books on mathematics.[1] Alcock won the Selden Prize for her research in mathematics education,[2] and is a National Teaching Fellow.[3]

Education and career

Alcock earned bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at the University of Warwick, and in 2001 completed a PhD in mathematics education at Warwick.[1][2] Her dissertation, Categories, definitions and mathematics: Student reasoning about objects in analysis, was supervised by Adrian Simpson.[4] After working as an assistant professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, she returned to the UK as a teaching fellow at Essex University. She moved to Loughborough in 2007.[1][2]

Recognition

Alcock is the 2012 winner of the Annie and John Selden Prize for Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, given by the Mathematical Association of America.[2] She was named a National Teaching Fellow by the Higher Education Academy in 2015.[3]

Books

Alcock is the author of:

  • Ideas from Mathematics Education: An Introduction for Mathematicians (with Adrian Simpson, Higher Education Academy, 2009)
  • How to Study for a Mathematics Degree / How to Study as a Mathematics Major (UK/US; Oxford University Press, 2013); Wie man erfolgreich Mathematik studiert (translated into German by Bernhard Gerl, Springer Spektrum, 2017)[5]
  • How to Think about Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2014)[6]
  • Mathematics Rebooted: A Fresh Approach to Understanding (Oxford University Press, 2017)[7]

References
  1. Centre Staff: Dr Lara Alcock, Loughborough University Mathematics Education Centre, retrieved 2018-09-12
  2. 2012 Selden Prize Winner, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2018-09-12
  3. Grove, Jack (11 June 2015), "National Teaching Fellows of 2015 are named: Fifty-five people working in universities have been named as the latest winners of the sector's top honour for teaching and learning", Times Higher Education
  4. Alcock, Lara (2001), Categories, definitions and mathematics : student reasoning about objects in analysis (phd), University of Warwick – via University of Warwick Publications service & WRAP
  5. Reviews of How to Study for a Mathematics Degree:
    • Foster, Colin (July 2014), The Mathematical Gazette, 98 (542): 377–378, doi:10.1017/s0025557200001625CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Storr, Graham (November 2014), The Mathematical Gazette, 98 (543): 547, doi:10.1017/s0025557200008457CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    Review of How to Study as a Mathematics Major: Review of Wie man erfolgreich Mathematik studiert:
  6. Review of How to Think about Analysis:
    • Huddy, Stanley R. (January 2015), "Review", MAA Reviews
  7. Reviews of Mathematics Rebooted:
    • Bultheel, Adhemar (February 2018), Review, European Mathematical Society
    • Stenger, Allen (April 2018), "Review", MAA Reviews
    • Grove, Michael (January 2019), "Review" (PDF), Newsletter of the London Mathematical Society, 480: 39–40
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