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Forrest Gump Math Focused Movie Guide

Forrest Gump Math Focused Movie Guide

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This Forrest Gump Math Focused Movie Guide challenges students to tackle various problems like determining Forrest’s walking speed, calculating the cost of chocolates, and estimating the shrimp catch over multiple days.

Students will reinforce the following math skills and standards:

  • 6.RP.A.1: Understand ratio concepts and use ratio language to describe relationships
  • 6.RP.A.3.b: Solve unit rate problems involving speed and pricing
  • 6.RP.A.3.c: Solve percentage problems in real-world situations
  • 6.RP.A.3.d: Use ratio reasoning to convert and manipulate measurement units
  • 7.RP.A.2.c: Represent proportional relationships with equations
  • 7.RP.A.3: Solve multi-step percent problems and calculate profits

This resource is great for:

  • Substitute Emergency Lesson Plans
  • After Testing Activity
  • Reward Lessons
  • End of School Year Parties

This resource is meant to supplement the viewing of this movie, see the IMDb listing here.

Check the thumbnails for sample questions to see if this math focused movie guide is suitable for your students. This resource consists of 10 math related questions and 2 optional long format questions that will do more than just ask your students to regurgitate information.

This product .zip file includes:

    • An Answer Key w/ CCSS Alignment (4 Pages)
    • A Student Movie Guide (4 Pages)
    • A DIFFERENTIATED Student Movie Guide (4 Pages)
      • Includes hints and formulas necessary to solve the problem
    • 2 PDFs with link to both student Google Slide versions (2 Pages)
    • CCSS alignment, Admin Movie Request and Permission Slip (2 Pages)

Google Classroom | Google Slide | Tips:

    • Click on the link included in the PDF titled "Google Slides Version" and save a copy of the file to your Google Drive/Classroom
    • Create an assignment for your students
    • If you are using this resource for multiple classes and want to separate responses by class, create multiple copies of the Google Slides version with file names such as

Tips for using Forrest Gump Math Focused Movie Guide in your classroom:

    • Print one, double-sided movie guide for each student
    • Preview the next question on the movie guide as you complete each one, this can help students pay attention to important upcoming events.
    • If students work together, discourage students from simply copying answers.
    • Randomly choose a student to share their answer and defend it if necessary.
    • Optionally, after completing the math questions, allow 5-10 minutes for each ELA question at the end of the film.

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Get a feel for these movie guides and see if this resource is right for you. I ask questions that require students to ‘live’ on the higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy.

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