Marco Polo will never go out of style, but mix it up with some of these lesser-known pool games and activities for kids.

Little kids with swimming noodles in indoor pool Little kids with swimming noodles in indoor pool Leave it a group of teachers to find a way to make fractions fun.

Use a pool noodle to make a set of “quiet” blocks that just as fun to play with but a little quieter to get the best of both worlds.

Pool noodles can be helpful tools for older kids as well. An teacher at Burlington County Institute of Technology in Medford plans to use pool noodles in a drone obstacle course.

The educators at We Are Teachers came up with the idea of using pool noodles as an easy, inexpensive learning tool to help students visualize fractions, which is often a challenge for many kids.