Andy Isaacs is Co-Director of the University of Chicago Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education and a Senior Research Associate in the University’s Physical Sciences Division. In 1995, Isaacs joined the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project to work on the Bridges to Classroom Mathematics Project. Isaacs was an author on the second edition of Everyday Mathematics, published in 2000 and 2001. Since the late 1990s, he has directed a series of teacher development projects funded by grants and contracts from the Illinois Board of Higher Education and the Chicago Public Schools and he directed revisions that led to a third edition of Everyday Mathematics in 2007 and California and Texas editions in 2008

Earlier, Isaacs taught fourth and fifth grades in Chicago-area public schools and was a lecturer in mathematics education in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He worked on the NSF-funded Teaching Integrated Mathematics and Science Project (TIMS),.. From 1990 to 1995, he was a full time writer for Math Trailblazers, a comprehensive curriculum for grades K-5 based on TIMS and funded by NSF. He received a BA in classical Greek from Northwestern University an MST in elementary education from the University of Chicago, an MS in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a DA in mathematics (with concentrations in abstract algebra and theoretical computer science) from the University of Illinois at Chicago.