Excel Math K-6 Curriculum

The History of AnsMar Publishers, Home of Excel Math

1976	Janice Raymond has a successful career in Real Estate. She retires at 30 and volunteers at her local elementary school. She learns that many children dislike their math classes. She begins to develop CheckAnswer Math, using the prototypes in fifth grade classrooms in Coronado, CA.
1978	Company name changes to Coronado Math. Worksheets are produced on a typewriter with handwritten answers.
1979	Janice works in Coronado schools and refines her concept of Excel Math through research at San Diego State University, classroom testing, and teacher conferences around California and Texas.
1980	Imperial Beach California and Clint Texas begin to use Excel Math
1984	Coronado Math becomes AnsMar Publishers, Incorporated. The name honors Janice’s parents Anson and Marion. Janice buys a table-top press so she can print more Lesson Sheets.
1985	Excel Math adds Basic Fact Tapes to its product line, creates a video to help teachers learn its concepts, and moves to rented space in a mini-storage.
1987	Janice reworks the curriculum and with some outside help, adds a Spanish translation.
1990	Excel Math moves to National City, CA. Janice continues to write the curriculum, print it, and deliver it in rented trucks.
1991	Excel Math product line is so popular that Janice has to get an outside printer to take over printing, collating and packaging the Lesson Sheets.
1993	Brad Baker becomes co-owner of AnsMar and cares for the “business” while Janice concentrates on being the “author.” Brad manages the printing, shipping, sales, marketing and office management. David Jones was hired to manage the warehouse and shipping the products.
1995	Becky Falasco becomes AnsMar’s customer liaison. She works out of her home in Arkansas and later Idaho.
1997	Bob Parrish joins AnsMar after completing a 21-year career at a local television station as operations manager. He takes over the operations aspects of the company – dealing with the production of pages.
1998	Jim Stark, CPA becomes the full-time financial manager for AnsMar
2001	Mike Roeder begins to work with AnsMar on marketing and web page design, and eventually becomes Managing Editor, responsible for taking the curriculum content from Janice and creating the actual products.
2002	Excel Math buys some land in Poway, CA, buys its own building, and moves in during October 2002. In addition, the All-New Excel Math Third Grade Curriculum is introduced, with expanded opportunities for creativity, literacy and problem-solving.
2003	A revised First Grade curriculum is published with new graphics and expanded Teacher Edition.
2004	All-new editions of the Second and Fourth grades are released, along with a new Glossary for all grades, in both English and Spanish. We ship nearly 40,000 boxes of curriculum - a million pounds! - in 2004.
2005	All-new editions of the Fifth and Sixth grades are released. We also offer all grades in a Summer School edition.