Virginia M. Warfield

Emeritus Principal Lecturer, appointed 1973 (Ph.D. Brown 1971)

Research area: Probability and the teaching of mathematics

Personal Web page: http://www.math.washington.edu/~warfield/personal.html
E-mail: warfield[_a_t_]math.washington.edu
Phone: 543-1160
Office: PDL C-542

Hobbies: Playing any bowed instrument that sits on the shoulder (violin, viola, vielle) and singing medieval music; hiking (or at any rate walking a lot)

Professional interests

I started off in Probability and then got hooked on teaching. This grew into a specialty in everything to do with teaching, especially teaching people who plan to teach someone else, where the someone else ranges from kindergarten to college. Another aspect of mathematics education in which I am heavily involved is Didactique, a French mathematics education research program which has been developing since the late sixties. I work with, and translate for, Guy Broussseau., who founded the field.

Selected bibliography

Co-editor of The Theory of Situations: Didactique des Mathematiques 1970-1990, the English language version of a collection of the central research articles of Guy Brousseau. Kluwer Press, 1997.

Co-editor of Théorie des Situations Didactiques (Didactiques des mathématiques 1970-1990), La Pensée Sauvage, 1998

The Case of Gaël, The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 18, no. 1 (1999) 7-52 (with G. Brousseau)

An Experiment on the Teaching of Probability and Statistics, Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 20, no. 3, 2001, 363-411 (with G. Brousseau and N. Brousseau)

Rationals and decimals as required in the school curriculum. Part 1: Rationals as measurement, Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 23, no. 1, 2004, 1-20 (with G. Brousseau and N. Brousseau)