Math in Movies Activity Project Guide & Notetaker for Hidden Figures Movie

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7th - 11th, Homeschool

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Math, Science, U.S. History

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Projects, Activities, Movie Guides

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CCSSMP1

CCSSMP2

CCSSMP3

CCSSMP4

CCSSMP5

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I used the Hidden Figures movie as a culmination of my STEM Careers unit. This was great in helping them see the math that is involved.

— Gay La C.

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My students loved this activity so very much! We used it to create a cross-curricular experience for Math, Science, and Social Studies Classes. I loved that I could use it with a sub while i was out of the classroom and relate it to the real world.

— Linda z.

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The purpose of this project is to get students excited about mathematics using a compelling historical event and major motion picture: Hidden Figures. Students will watch this movie from the viewpoint of one of the four main characters: Katherine Goble Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, or Al Harrison. Each student will complete a movie note-taker specific to their assigned character. Once the movie is complete, students will gather in groups of four, one representing each movie character, to reflect on the movie and share impressions from the point of view of their character.

This lesson is suited for students in grades 7 through 12. It can also be completed independently if you have a student who is absent and has access to the movie. This lesson also makes excellent sub plans.

Students will:

1. Watch the movie: Hidden Figures.

2. Complete the movie note-taker focused on the interwoven relationships of math, problem solving, collaboration, innovation, and determination.

3. Learn about leadership, fortitude, and professional excellence amidst ignorance, segregation and sexism.

4. Gather in groups to reflect on the movie and relationships of the characters within the movie.

The movie Hidden Figures takes place amidst the space race and civil rights movement. Katherine Goble, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson are mathematicians employed by NASA as “computers.” Katherine is a mathematical genius who struggles to be taken seriously in the all-male, all-white team tasked with getting the first American into space. Dorothy Vaughan is the leader of the “colored computers” who become the first computer programmers at NASA. Mary Jackson petitions the courts to allow her to attend night classes at the all-white high school so that she can apply to be a rocket engineer at NASA.

Through the movie these women navigate racism, sexism, and ego to achieve greatness is their respective fields. Dorothy trains first herself and then all her colleagues to program computing machines. Mary becomes the first female, African American engineer at NASA. Katherine calculates launch and landing trajectories for Project Mercury spaceflights, then later worked on several of the Apollo missions. Katherine’s reputation for accuracy gives astronauts the confidence to leave Earth’s gravity.

The following downloads are included with this project: Teacher Instructions, Movie Note-taker (4 editions), Movie Reflection Handout, six Extension Ideas, five DOK 3/4 questions, and five Answer Keys.

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CCSSMP1

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution. They analyze givens, constraints, relationships, and goals. They make conjectures about the form and meaning of the solution and plan a solution pathway rather than simply jumping into a solution attempt. They consider analogous problems, and try special cases and simpler forms of the original problem in order to gain insight into its solution. They monitor and evaluate their progress and change course if necessary. Older students might, depending on the context of the problem, transform algebraic expressions or change the viewing window on their graphing calculator to get the information they need. Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends. Younger students might rely on using concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve a problem. Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, "Does this make sense?" They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches.

CCSSMP2

Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Mathematically proficient students make sense of quantities and their relationships in problem situations. They bring two complementary abilities to bear on problems involving quantitative relationships: the ability to decontextualize-to abstract a given situation and represent it symbolically and manipulate the representing symbols as if they have a life of their own, without necessarily attending to their referents-and the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.

CCSSMP3

Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Mathematically proficient students understand and use stated assumptions, definitions, and previously established results in constructing arguments. They make conjectures and build a logical progression of statements to explore the truth of their conjectures. They are able to analyze situations by breaking them into cases, and can recognize and use counterexamples. They justify their conclusions, communicate them to others, and respond to the arguments of others. They reason inductively about data, making plausible arguments that take into account the context from which the data arose. Mathematically proficient students are also able to compare the effectiveness of two plausible arguments, distinguish correct logic or reasoning from that which is flawed, and-if there is a flaw in an argument-explain what it is. Elementary students can construct arguments using concrete referents such as objects, drawings, diagrams, and actions. Such arguments can make sense and be correct, even though they are not generalized or made formal until later grades. Later, students learn to determine domains to which an argument applies. Students at all grades can listen or read the arguments of others, decide whether they make sense, and ask useful questions to clarify or improve the arguments.

CCSSMP4

Model with mathematics. Mathematically proficient students can apply the mathematics they know to solve problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace. In early grades, this might be as simple as writing an addition equation to describe a situation. In middle grades, a student might apply proportional reasoning to plan a school event or analyze a problem in the community. By high school, a student might use geometry to solve a design problem or use a function to describe how one quantity of interest depends on another. Mathematically proficient students who can apply what they know are comfortable making assumptions and approximations to simplify a complicated situation, realizing that these may need revision later. They are able to identify important quantities in a practical situation and map their relationships using such tools as diagrams, two-way tables, graphs, flowcharts and formulas. They can analyze those relationships mathematically to draw conclusions. They routinely interpret their mathematical results in the context of the situation and reflect on whether the results make sense, possibly improving the model if it has not served its purpose.

CCSSMP5

Use appropriate tools strategically. Mathematically proficient students consider the available tools when solving a mathematical problem. These tools might include pencil and paper, concrete models, a ruler, a protractor, a calculator, a spreadsheet, a computer algebra system, a statistical package, or dynamic geometry software. Proficient students are sufficiently familiar with tools appropriate for their grade or course to make sound decisions about when each of these tools might be helpful, recognizing both the insight to be gained and their limitations. For example, mathematically proficient high school students analyze graphs of functions and solutions generated using a graphing calculator. They detect possible errors by strategically using estimation and other mathematical knowledge. When making mathematical models, they know that technology can enable them to visualize the results of varying assumptions, explore consequences, and compare predictions with data. Mathematically proficient students at various grade levels are able to identify relevant external mathematical resources, such as digital content located on a website, and use them to pose or solve problems. They are able to use technological tools to explore and deepen their understanding of concepts.

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