Edmark Corporation was a publisher of educational print materials and an educational software developer in Redmond, Washington

Redmond, Washington

Redmond is a city in King County, Washington, United States, located east of Seattle. The population was 54,144 at the 2010 census,up from 45,256 in 2000....

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They developed software for Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

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 and Mac OS

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 in several languages and sold it in over a dozen countries.

History

Edmark was incorporated in 1970, they began developing software in 1992. Edmark was listed on NASDAQ

NASDAQ

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. Their audience was children between the ages of 2 and 16 years. Edmark had more than 65 industry design awards.

In 1989, Sally G. Narodick and W. Hunter Simpson became directors. Narodick became the CEO in October 1989. Edmark hired Donna Stanger as vice-president of product development in October 1991. In 1992, Edmark released Millie's Math House and KidDesk

KidDesk

KidDesk is an alternative desktop software application. The early childhood learning company Hatch Early Childhood created KidDesk; it subsequently went to Edmark, which was bought by IBM then sold to Riverdeep ....

. Sally Narodick resigned as CEO in September citing the stress, and Donna Stanger became the CEO
Edmark was acquired by IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

 on November 13, 1996 for $102.3 million ($15.50 per share for two-thirds of Edmark's shares) to expand its presence in home software.
In September 2000, it was sold to Riverdeep

Riverdeep

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology originally started as Riverdeep Interactive Learning, is a publishing house for educational online and CD-ROM products based in San Francisco and Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 1995, Riverdeep was principally the creation of the Irish ex-investment banker...

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Software

1991

• Strategy Challenges Collection 1 (formerly Strategy Games of the World)
• Strategy Challenges Collection 2: In the Wild
  Strategy Challenges Collection 2: In the Wild
  Strategy Challenges Collection 2: In the Wild is a personal computer game created by Edmark. Like its predecessor, it features three strategy games that the user can play against the computer or another user...
  
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• Stanley’s Sticker Stories
• ThemeWeavers: Animals
• ThemeWeavers: Nature
• Travel the World with Timmy! Deluxe
• Let’s Go Read! 1: An Island Adventure - ages 4-6
• Let’s Go Read! 2: An Ocean Adventure - ages 7-12
• Stories & More: Animal Friends
• Stories & More: Time and Place
• MindTwister Math
• Space Academy GX-1
• Virtual Labs: Light
• Virtual Labs: Electricity
• Talking Walls - runner-up for the Macworld 16th Annual Editors' Choice Award for Education
• Talking Walls: The Stories Continue

House Series

1992-present

• Millie's Math House (1992)
• Bailey's Book House (1993)
• Sammy's Science House (1994)
• Trudy's Time & Place House (1995)

Thinkin' Things

1991-1999

• Thinkin' Things: Toony the Loon’s Lagoon
• Thinkin' Things: All Around FrippleTown - ages 4-8, won the 1999 Macworld Editors' Choice Award for Education
• Thinkin' Things Collection 1 (1993)
• Thinkin' Things Collection 2 (1995)
• Thinkin' Things Collection 3: Galactic Brain Benders (1995) - ages 8-12
• Thinkin' Things Sky Island Mysteries - ages 8-12
• Thinkin' Science
• Thinkin' Science Series: ZAP! (1998)
• Thinkin' Space

Imagination Express

2000

• Imagination Express: Castle
• Imagination Express: Neighborhood
• Imagination Express: Rain Forest
• Imagination Express: Ocean
• Imagination Express: Pyramids
• Imagination Express: Time Trip, USA

Mighty Math

1994-2001

• Mighty Math Carnival Countdown
• Mighty Math Zoo Zillions
• Mighty Math Calculating Crew
• Mighty Math Number Heroes (1996) - 3rd- to 6th-graders
• Mighty Math Astro Algebra
• Mighty Math Cosmic Geometry