In this fun, free, experiment and calculation activity, students get a feel for how much a person can do in a second, even a tenth of a second. First, they read a narrative about a time a basketball game was decided by a tenth of a second. They also read real statistical data from Olympic races in which there was less than a second between the gold, silver, and bronze finishers. ALSO INCLUDED: A LINK TO THE INFORMATIONAL TEXT IN GOOGLE CLASSROOMENCOURAGES ACTIVE PARTICIPATIONThey work with partn