I would suggest doing it in stages. As PoolGate said, you can only dissolve 1 or 2 pounds in a 5 gallon bucket of water at a time or it will get dangerously hot. So maybe do 4 pounds a day, with a day in between. Be sure you are not adding any other chemical (except chlorine) when adding the calcium.
Odd that you need to add calcium to a pool in Texas. Most of the reports we see from Texas has hard water.