movies with math or mathematicians

[bigalt]

can anybody think of movies rated less than R that have math involved?

my girlfriend wants to a) have a free day where she doesn't have to have lessons and b) try to get some of the less interested kids interested.

these are semi-autistic kids so rain man is no good. a beautiful mind also shows a math guy going nuts. of course pi is inappropriate but that guy goes nuts too.

edit: (they're high school aged)

 

[her209]

Good Will Hunting
Stand And Deliver

EDIT: Saw you mention Beautiful Mind already.

 

[chuckywang]

A Beautiful Mind

Was Pi rated R? If it wasn't, than that is another one.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Was A Beautiful Mind less than R?

I know there was a decent movie once upon a time that portrayed Albert Einstien or some such...

edit: I should have read the rest of the OP, lol

 

[Mrvile]

Originally posted by: her209
Good Will Hunting
Stand And Deliver

EDIT: Saw you mention Beautiful Mind already.

Good Will Hunting is rated R I believe. Great movie though, watch it with your girl sometime you guys'll like it.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
Was A Beautiful Mind less than R?

I know there was a decent movie once upon a time that portrayed Albert Einstien or some such...

edit: I should have read the rest of the OP, lol

IQ. With Meg Ryan. But that was more of a romantic comedy without any math whatsoever.

 

[anxi80]

i too vote 'stand and deliver'. first saw it in my math class in middle school and its rated 'pg'. heres a plot description from imdb

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: Mrvile

Originally posted by: her209
Good Will Hunting
Stand And Deliver

EDIT: Saw you mention Beautiful Mind already.

Good Will Hunting is rated R I believe. Great movie though, watch it with your girl sometime you guys'll like it.

What about Stand And Deliver

OMDB link

 

[chuckywang]

Enigma was about code-breaking...

 

[UglyCasanova]

Pi

In October Sky they used math. That would be a really good at school movie, it's a true story about these kids building rockets in some mining town and then grew up to design rockets for NASA.

 

[dadeef]

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova
Pi

.

good movie.
rated R though.

 

[bigalt]

stand and deliver and october sky sound good.

but yeah there are several great movies with math dudes involves but it's always about them being crazy or else they ignore it.

not like other sciences and especially like computer programming, they love to romanticize that.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Too bad Real Genius was about physicists

Stand and Deliver was good though, another vote for it.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: her209
Good Will Hunting
Stand And Deliver

EDIT: Saw you mention Beautiful Mind already.

Stand and Deliver, thats the one about highschoolers and the SAT, right?

 

[gsaldivar]

http://world.std.com/~reinhold/mathmovies.html
http://www.math.unl.edu/~bharbour/MathInTheMovies.html

 

[BigB10293]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus

Originally posted by: her209
Good Will Hunting
Stand And Deliver

EDIT: Saw you mention Beautiful Mind already.

Stand and Deliver, thats the one about highschoolers and the SAT, right?

AP Calc exam if I recall correctly.

 

[ChooChooChooseMe]

October Sky? The kids will like it because it has explosions, rockets, and coal mining!

 

[aplefka]

October Sky is a reeeally good movie. The guy teaches himself the math I believe.

 

[ChooChooChooseMe]

Originally posted by: aplefka
October Sky is a reeeally good movie. The guy teaches himself the math I believe.

I think his nerd friend helps him a little.

 

[Last Rezort]

when dealing with semi-retarded kids i like to just give one a gun and see what happens.
Or you could give one a stick and tell him/her to beat another one with it, allways good for a laugh.
hmmmmmmmm........
Show them bright flashing lights and try to induce coma or somthing?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Stand and deliver!

 

[Rightwinger]

Sneakers!

 

[Chaotic42]

Good Will Hunting if you can stand the horrible accents.

 

[venk]

Pearl Harbor.

They can count the number of plot points that suck.




assuming of course, they can count that high.

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: Last Rezort
when dealing with semi-retarded kids i like to just give one a gun and see what happens.
Or you could give one a stick and tell him/her to beat another one with it, allways good for a laugh.
hmmmmmmmm........
Show them bright flashing lights and try to induce coma or somthing?

That is one of the most unfunny things I have read here