Arthur A. Hyde

Arthur Hyde is a long-time author and coauthor of professional books that teachers rely on every day. As a content-area expert in mathematics, he has collaborated with Harvey “Smokey” Daniels and Steven Zemelman on Best Practice: Today’s Standards for Teaching and Learning in America’s Schools. His work has frequently combined familiar best practices from other disciplines and suggested how they can improve instruction in math. For example, in his bestselling Comprhending Math: Adapting Reading Strategies to Teach Mathematics, K–6, he showed the powerful applications that the comprehension strategies popularized by Ellin Keene and Stephanie Harvey have for math.

Art previously taught high school mathematics in Philadelphia, where he developed a variety of creative methods for teaching math. These experiences, led him to many of the ideas behind his books Mathwise: Teaching Mathematical Thinking and Problem Solving and Understanding Middle School Mathematics: Cool Problems to Get Students Thinking and Connecting. He also obtained a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from the University of Pennsylvania , where he later was Associate Director of Teacher Preparation. Art continues to work frequently in elementary and middle school classrooms and conducts extensive professional development programs on mathematics and problem solving in Chicago and its surrounding school districts. Art is also a professor of mathematics education at National-Louis University, where he has received its Excellence in Teaching award.