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

She received the Louise Hay Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2007.

Her doctoral advisor was Wendell Fleming and the title of her dissertation was A Stochastic Maximum Principle.

[3] 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.

[4] Warfield is the author of the book Invitation to Didactique (self-published, 2007, and Springer Briefs in Education, 2014)[5] and the co-author of Teaching Fractions through Situations: A Fundamental Experiment (with Guy Brousseau and Nadine Brousseau, Springer 2013).