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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Stopwatch

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a general-use stopwatch that can serve any purpose, for any subject area. The stopwatch counts up and down, records times that events happen, and also includes a buzzer that will activate at any time the user chooses. Java is...
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Stopwatches

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use this online stopwatch to learn about elapsed time. This timer can time three different events at once and has an alarm.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: On Time: Mechanizing Time

For Students 9th - 10th
As the tempo of life accelerated and speed became a virtue, a horse-racing craze swept the nation. At the track, stopwatches made it possible to post winning times in quarter-seconds! In 1855, Lexington, the country's most famous horse,...