I enjoy the math. I also make sure I let my 11 yr old son see me using math in my quilting as well as in cooking, paying the bills, etc. He's not as keen for math as me, so it takes this to show him that "Yes" he will need his math skills for "real life" after school.
I love it when the absolutes of math work out in quilting . For instance, no matter how wide you cut your double fold binding, when you get to the part where you need to join it to finish it - the amount of overlap will be exactly the widlth of your binding - unfolded! If you cut it that way, you just join the ends on an angle and it fits perfectly.