Debbie Brooks
Debbie Brooks has a BSBA in accounting from Appalachian State University and earned certification in Middle School math at Winston-Salem State University. She has been teaching algebra and 8th grade math for five years.
Resources created by Debbie Brooks
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- 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.
- 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 7 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- 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 8–9 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 7 and 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 8–9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- 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.
- 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 8–9 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 and Science)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
