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Classroom Resource: Countdown Timer
This term my school is running some maths competitions involving timed rounds. The questions are in Word, and I've been getting quite frustrated with the countdown timer built into Activstudio -- in particular, it makes resetting the count very fiddly. There are a lot of countdown/timer applications around, but the ones that do what I want seem to be either stupidly overcomplicated, not free, or to crash all the time.
To get around my frustrations I've cobbled together the following simple countdown timer, written in Javascript:
Source: countdowntimer.html.
Not particularly flashy, but it gets the job done!
You can start/stop/reset the countdown, and alter the starting count in 30s increments, just by pressing buttons, which makes it easy to use on an Interactive Whiteboard. In addition, if you click on the ^^ link (at the bottom right) the timer will open in a new window, with as few toolbars as your security settings allow.