It's really this. I was a "good" student so I got pretty far in college math; and none of it has stuck with me without a real life application. At ALL. What's

It's really this. I was a "good" student so I got pretty far in college math; and none of it has stuck with me without a real life application. At ALL. What's kind of killing me now, as my kids go through algebra et al, is that now we have a VERY OBVIOUS way to make this interesting and we're severely underutilizing it, which is video games. "Draw a rainbow in Minecraft" or "Figure out the trajectory of that frag grenade" seems just gobsmackingly obvious as a path here.