Excel Math K-6 Curriculum

The History of AnsMar Publishers, Home of Excel Math

1976	Janice Raymond retires from a successful career in Real Estate 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	The company name changes to Coronado Math. Worksheets are produced on a typewriter with handwritten answers.
1979	Janice works in Coronado schools and refines Excel Math through research at San Diego State University, classroom testing, and teacher conferences in California and Texas.
1980	Imperial Beach California and Clint Texas begin to use Excel Math
1984	Coronado Math becomes AnsMar Publishers, Incorporated, to honor Janice’s parents Anson and Marion. Janice buys a table-top press to 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 operations, dealing with sales, printing and production.
1998	Jim Stark, CPA becomes the full-time financial manager for AnsMar.
2001	Mike Roeder comes to AnsMar, helping with marketing and the web site, and eventually becomes Managing Editor, taking curriculum content from Janice and creating the actual products.
2002	Excel Math buys property in Poway, CA, builds an office and warehouse, and moves in during October 2002. A new Third Grade is released, 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	New editions of Second and Fourth grades appear, with a new Glossary, in English and Spanish. We ship 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.
2006	First grade is updated; other grade story problems are rewritten for clarity. Charts in all TEs correlate each test problem to the lesson where the concept was introduced.
2007	All grades 1-6 TEs receive minor revisions for consistency, adding new coins, enhancing lesson plans, and improving graphics.
2009	A new Kindergarten curriculum is introduced. Excel Projectable is launched - an electronic product for projecting lesson content on onto screens or interactive boards.