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. 1 2 3 Centre Staff: Dr Lara Alcock, Loughborough University Mathematics Education Centre, retrieved 2018-09-12
  2. 1 2 3 4 2012 Selden Prize Winner, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2018-09-12
  3. 1 2 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 – 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/s0025557200001625
    • Storr, Graham (November 2014), The Mathematical Gazette, 98 (543): 547, doi:10.1017/s0025557200008457
    Review of How to Study as a Mathematics Major:
    • Selden, Annie (September 2013), "Review", MAA Reviews
    Review of Wie man erfolgreich Mathematik studiert:
    • Panse, Anja (January 2018), Mathematische Semesterberichte, 65 (1): 133–135, doi:10.1007/s00591-018-0219-6
  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
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.