About
Virginia Bastable is a Lecturer at Mount Holyoke College within the Professional and Graduate Education (PaGE) program, based at Merrill House with contact number 413-538-3478. She actively facilitates online academic year courses and summer institutes for the Master of Arts in Teaching Mathematics (MATM) program and consults with UCLA to support educators in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Her research centers on elementary mathematics teacher development, emphasizing how teachers can foster algebraic reasoning and mathematical argumentation in young students. She co-authored the Developing Mathematical Ideas professional development curriculum (NCTM) and two seminal books: Connecting Arithmetic to Algebra and But Why Does it Work: Mathematical Argument in the Elementary Classroom (Heinemann), which provide frameworks for building students' capacity for mathematical reasoning. Her contributions also extend to the third edition of Investigations in Number, Data and Space.
