Introducing the Guest Blogger for July – David Banzer, M.Ed.
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ANNOUNCING MATH AT HOME’S

Blogger of the Month

David Banzer, M.Ed.

Welcome to our guest blog! Each month, we feature a different guest blogger with valuable insights and information to share about young children and math. Our July 2017 guest blogger is David Banzer, M.Ed., the education coordinator for the Head Start and prekindergarten programs at Erie Neighborhood House in Chicago. Banzer will write weekly blog posts about the many ways that block play can support early math development. "Children naturally gravitate toward block play, which can help them master important early math skills such as counting, comparing heights, measuring and patterning, as well as estimation, symmetry and balance," says Banzer. In his blog posts, Banzer will discuss the benefits of block play and share some block play guidelines and vocabulary.

Check back weekly throughout the year so you don’t miss a single guest blog—and join in the conversation by asking questions or leaving comments at the end of each post. We’re excited about this new chapter in the Math at Home project—and we hope you are too!

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About our guest blogger

David Banzer, M.Ed.

David Banzer, M.Ed.

David Banzer, M.Ed., is a doctoral student focusing on early math teaching and learning at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his B.S. in psychology from Seattle University in 2004 and his M.Ed. in early childhood education from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2011. After working as a preschool teacher at Erie Neighborhood House from 2008 to 2015, he began serving in his current position as education coordinator for the social service agency. Banzer is also interested in helping early childhood professionals develop their own math abilities—along with a greater awareness of how young children develop mathematical thinking skills. He has created and facilitated a series of professional development programs focused on math and technology in the early childhood classroom and presented at conferences throughout the state of Illinois. He is passionate about early math because it lays the foundation for future academic success. "Math is everywhere in the world," Banzer observes, "and children can explore math in everything that they do."
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