Janice Marks
Janice noticed that her 8-year-old daughter was struggling with basic math skills. She started looking for resources to help and quickly noticed that the material she sought was scattered and incomplete. Her daughter wasn’t the only one floundering in a sea of mathematical symbols and timed tests.
Thus, Page-A-Day Math was born. An incremental math system designed to address the significant lack of basic math fact knowledge often found in lower elementary students.
Page A Day Math provides an incremental and cumulative series of at-home lessons for three- to nine-year-olds and their parents. The engaging, child-centered series covers addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and math handwriting practice. Each Page A Day Math series includes 10 to 13 fun books that are easy to follow and serve to teach and reinforce math facts that are the basis for higher-level math and science concepts.
Marks combined her firsthand teaching knowledge with her extensive marketing experience to create this series. Janice has always been passionate about figuring out how things can be done more effectively, whether related to enterprise or consumer software marketing or teaching math. She has a knack for identifying where needs exist and developing creative solutions.
Janice began her career in marketing and has more than twenty years of experience with former employers, including well-known global brands Computer Associates, McAfee, and Castrol/BP.
Janice transitioned into education to pursue teaching pre-algebra at BASIS Tucson North, a charter school currently ranked as the sixth-best STEM school in the country by Newsweek. There, she found joy in teaching math, working with parents, and inspiring children to believe in themselves and thrive. This experience and helping her children succeed in math led her to develop the Page A Day Math system.
Janice graduated from Hebrew University in Jerusalem cum laude with a bachelor’s in business administration and economics. Her time in Israel exposed her to learners worldwide, allowing her to observe how education systems vary in their approach. This knowledge influenced her approach to developing Page A Day Math. Janice combined education practices and styles from the U.S. and Asia to create the best possible learning tool.
Janice grew up outside of Philadelphia. After college in Jerusalem (where she earned her black belt in Taekwondo, representing Israel in the 1993 World Taekwondo Championships at Madison Square Garden), she returned to the U.S.. She lived for many years in New York City. Janice currently calls Tucson, Arizona home. You can find her hiking, gardening, cooking, and volunteering in the community with her kids in her spare time.
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