Virginia "Ginger" Patricia McShane Warfield is an American mathematician and mathematical educator. She received the

Louise Hay Award The Louise Hay Award is a mathematics award established in 1990 by the Association for Women in Mathematics in recognition of contributions as a math educator. The award was created in honor of Louise Hay. Recipients The following women have been ...

from the

Association for Women in Mathematics The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment o ...

in 2007.

Education

Warfield's father was mathematician

Edward J. McShane Edward James McShane (May 10, 1904 – June 1, 1989) was an American mathematician noted for his advancements of the calculus of variations, integration (mathematics), integration theory, stochastic calculus, and exterior ballistics.[https://www. ...

.New York Times:Edward McShane, 85, Mathematician, Dies; June 06, 1989
/ref> She received her Ph.D. in mathematics from Brown University in 1971. Her doctoral advisor was Wendell Fleming and the title of her dissertation was ''A Stochastic Maximum Principle''.

Career

While making contributions to the field of stochastic analysis after her Ph.D., Warfield became more and more engrossed by the problems of mathematics education. She worked with Project SEED, a highly regarded mathematics program whose goal was to promote sense-making mathematical activities for fourth through sixth graders. She addressed issues of teacher preparation and enhancement. She collaborated with the French mathematician Guy Brousseau, a pioneer in the “didactics of mathematics,” the scientific study of issues in mathematics teaching and learning. She has been an active member of the

(AWM). She has chaired the Education Committee, has served as Education Column Editor for the AWM Newsletter, and was elected as a Member-at-large to the Executive Committee. She has been a member of the Mathematical Association of America’s committees on Professional Development and Mathematical Education of Teachers.

Books

Warfield is the author of the book ''Invitation to Didactique'' (self-published, 2007, and Springer Briefs in Education, 2014) and the co-author of ''Teaching Fractions through Situations: A Fundamental Experiment'' (with Guy Brousseau and Nadine Brousseau, Springer 2013).

References

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