Peggy Dickey
During Peggy Dickey’s twenty years as an educator, she has served in many different capacities: seven years as a high school science/health/math teacher and athletic trainer, nine years as a 7th/8th grade math teacher, and two years as a middle school curriculum coordinator. She is currently a middle school assistant principal at Jefferson Middle School in Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools. She received her undergraduate degree from Purdue University in 1987 in Health Education, with a minor in Math Education and a concentration in Athletic Training. Her Masters in School Administration was achieved through Gardner-Webb University in 2004.
Resources created by Peggy Dickey
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- Career skill: Writing expressions and equations
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.9
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will translate between natural language sentences and mathematical equations. Students will discuss how this skill may be useful in various careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Careers in banking: Working with exponential growth
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.9
- In this lesson, students use exponential growth to solve problems related to careers in banking.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Free falling: Working with radicals
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.4
- In this lesson, students solve problems involving radicals and discuss the importance of radicals in various careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Frequency tables
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.1
- In this lesson for grade seven, students discuss how frequency tables are used in various careers. Students use survey data collected in class to make their own frequency tables and present them to the class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey, Carol Taylor, and Monika Vasili.Adapted by Sharon Abell and Barbara Turner.
- Interior designers: Working with area
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.4
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will act as interior designers, and will measure the walls of the classroom to determine the area of each wall.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Linear equations
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.2
- In this lesson for grade seven, students calculate monthly bills for cell phone plans using linear equations.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Percent of a number
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.10
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will act as fair planners ordering food for the Dixie Classic Fair. Students will calculate percentages to determine how much food to order.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Percent of change: What's the deal?
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.5
- In this lesson, students calculate percent of change and discuss how percent of change is used in retail careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Perimeter of rectangles
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.3
- In this lesson for grade seven, students practice measuring perimeter and discuss careers in which calculations of perimeter are important.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Personal trainers: Working with slope
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.2
- In this lesson, students make calculations based on slope and answer questions about slope (rate of change).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Postal polynomials
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.6
- In this lesson, students use polynomials to solve problems, and discuss how polynomials are relevant in some careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Predicting the future with best-fit lines
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.1
- In this lesson plan, students use scatter plots and best-fit lines to make predictions based on data. Students also discuss how scatter plots and best-fit lines are useful in certain careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Scale drawings
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.7
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will use maps to measure the distances between cities in North Carolina. Students will write equations using the maps' scales to calculate the actual distances in miles.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Simple interest
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.6
- In this lesson for grade seven, students learn how to calculate simple interest, and research careers in which people need to understand simple interest.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Tammie J. Dawkins-Smith and Cynthia Russell.Adapted by Sharon Abell, Peggy Dickey, and Barbara Turner.
- Sports statisticians: Working with systems of equations
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.10
- In this lesson, students use the substitution and eliminations methods to solve systems of equations related to basketball statistics.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Stockbrokers: Adding and subtracting integers
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.8
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will learn about the careers of stockbrokers, and will attempt to quickly solve the kinds of problems stockbrokers must solve every day.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Surface area of rectangular prisms
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.5
- In this lesson for grade seven, students calculate the surface area of flattened cardboard boxes and discuss how the concept of surface area is important in various careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Utility workers: Working with the Pythagorean theorem
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.7
- In this lesson plan, students use the Pythagorean theorem to solve a problem relevant to the careers of utility workers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Working with matrices
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.8
- In this lesson, students use matrices to organize sets of data.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Working with parabolas
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.3
- In this lesson, students graph a quadratic equation to find a solution to a hypothetical scenario involving event planners.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
