freerice.com

dave · Post by **dave** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:41 am

my daughter came home from school yesterday all excited about this website the high school is promoting called freerice.com
i don't know much about it, except to say that it looks really cool, and i know that many of you here on the boards have a heart for giving-so i thought i'd pass it on.

there are many catagories for you to test your knowledge-vocab, math geography etc...and for every right answer 20 grains of rice is donated. the site says that sponsors pay for the rice-so you don't even have to send money anywhere, or give a credit card.

so if the boards are slow, and you've got the time, why not check it out and feed somebody in the process.

oh, one more thing, there is no penalty for wrong answers, so don't worry that your ignorance might result in food being taken away from some poor child!

geocarr · Post by **geocarr** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:21 am

That was fun and I'm a better guesser than I thought I was!

dave · Post by **dave** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:31 am

i rocked the foreign language sections...

not as good at grammar as i thought-level 5 was my best...english vocab my high was 34 of 60, i think.

what did you work on?

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:46 am

dave wrote:i rocked the foreign language sections...

not as good at grammar as i thought-level 5 was my best...english vocab my high was 34 of 60, i think.

what did you work on?

Didn't notice the levels. Gotta look out for that next time. I will have my kids practice their multiplication tables with this site. Vocabulary was many Latin words which worked well for me. Also tried capitals and French.

Great site.

/Magnus

geocarr · Post by **geocarr** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:21 pm

It's got different sections!!

I just stated playing the synonym game that was right there on the first page! I'm hopelessly clueless!

dave · Post by **dave** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:38 pm

i haven't looked everywhere at it either-but i saw lots and lots of topics.

i think it's great for kids as magnusr just mentioned-they get all excited about helping people-and don't realize that they're studying while having fun!

dave · Post by **dave** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:51 pm

did you guys check out the part of the site that has the totals for donations?

the us is dead last (on the list) giving 16 cents on every 100 dollars of income while norway was tops giving 95 cents. in fact all the countries out your way mags were up on top.

didn't find a latin section. where was that?
i'm feeling a little dendroid for missing it.

dave · Post by **dave** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:54 pm

however i'm not quite as entomophagous as bear grylls

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:41 pm

dave wrote:didn't find a latin section. where was that?

Sorry, talked about the English vocabulary. I meant to say that the vocabulary section was easier for me than it could have been because I know some French and therefore recognize many words with Latin origin. Even found a pure Swedish word which probably is difficult for you. That helped me to reach level 36 (wanted to beat you

).

/Magnus

dave · Post by **dave** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:57 pm

uh-oh, my highest level is now 40! zing!

dave · Post by **dave** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:59 pm

i got pretty high in the italian level, and i've never studied it at all-but for the same reason you mentioned-studying latin-based spanish!

i hate getting a word like "sororal" wrong, and then seeing the answer and saying "sorority! duh!"

i knew that! can i go back?!?

dave · Post by **dave** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:00 pm

also, reading the king james Bible has helped quite a bit too!

dave · Post by **dave** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:24 pm

p.s. anyone who wants to beat me soundly only has to go to the math section!

dave · Post by **dave** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:23 am

my new hig is 50 out of 60...but i'm back down to 47