Free Rice - Increase English Vocabulary and Feed the World’s Hungry
Undoubtedly I am coming lately to Free Rice. Go to this website, take the vocabulary tests, a fun game, and for each correct answer, you will not only build your vocabulary but you will also donate 20 grains of free rice towards feeding the hungry people of the world. The website makes money through sponsors advertising, enough to keep up with the millions of grains of rice earned by the players. Personally, I am not satisfied with my English vocabulary and so I am looking for ways to increase my word power and skills. This site is helpful (not as helpful as reading good literature) but nevertheless, helpful. To make matters better, I can also donate rice toward eradicating the world of malnutrition. All of this occurs without me laying out any money and through my small investment of time, whatever time I decide to dedicate to the increase of my vocabulary.
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We just recently learned about this site too (from Spencer’s Social Studies/English teacher). She has her Middle School students doing this!
good news! I have my children playing the game and feeding the world. I also sent the link to our church’s Fresh Start Microloans, a group intent on cutting $200.00 American or less over two years to start up businesses in the developing world. Check it out at www.freshstartmicroloans.com/fundraising.php
I just tried it — and had fun earning 1140 grains of rice. Of course, since I’m still in the dark ages of dial-up, and have ‘Show pictures’ perpetually off, the advertisers didn’t get the eyeball time they paid for.
Now here’s an exercise that will build up your mathematical ability: How many grains of rice can be earned in an hour? How many grains of rice in an ounce? How many ounces of rice would you ‘earn’ in an hour? How much does rice cost per ounce? How much do you ‘earn’ in $ per hour? Now compare this to an alternate project, requiring physical exercise rather than mental exercise: collecting pop cans alongside the highway and donating the 5ยข redemption value. Presuming that benefit of physical and mental exercise are equivalent, how many pop cans would you have to collect per hour for this to be equivalent to the vocabulary scheme?
thank you for feeding the world, Charlie. I am interested in your calculating answers to your questions above and would love to post them at my site. You are too much!