Just had to post this that make me think of how to make math fun for kids.  I remember back in the early 90's I think it was on PBS the show was called Square one TV where they had a pacman version but called mathman. I loved watching it, it was funny but guess what you learned about math.  Also at the end of the show they had a spoof of the tv show Dragnet but it was called mathnet and it involved solving cases but using math.  I think kids in the class would find them somewhat interesting and who knows maybe get hooked on math.