Quote Originally Posted by Watermom View Post
There is no reason to learn math unless you have a use for it. (Of course, some of my smarty-pants kids say then that they shouldn't have to learn it because they have no use for it!) Some day ..........
Make 'em do pool problems . . . !

Concentrations, ratios, flow rates, complex volume calculations (liner pools are easy, because they are all straight sides or radius curves, so bright middle school students possess the basic black-box tools to do the calcs), and so on.