Forrest Gump Math Focused Movie Guide | Differentiated | Word Problems | Percentages | Ratios

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 product includes a zip file consisting of:
An Answer Key w/ CCSS Alignment (4 Pages)
A Student Movie Guide (4 Pages)
A PDF with link to a Google Slides version (1 Page)
CCSS alignment, Admin Movie Request and Permission Slip (2 Pages)

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

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