Carrie Barber: "Way back when I was a kid, I always played school with my little sister, and my mom and dad said they always thought that I would be a teacher."
And it turns out Carrie Barber is an award-winning teacher. She's won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching in her ninth year teaching at DelCastle Tech.
Barber: "There's a lot of students, who come to math class, who don't necessarily think that math class is their favorite time of the day. Typically, when I tell people that I'm a math teacher, they usually say, 'Oh I hated math in high school.' So when I approach my classroom, I know it's important to reach all kids."
To reach all kids, Barber brings in real-life examples to show how math is used every day.
Barber: "I know that I can bring in next semester, the BP oil spill, and talk about as the oil gets pumped in to the water, and then you can take out so many gallons of water, and try to look at the decay of removing the oil over time. So if you can take some sort of real world example, and make that come alive to the kids."
