Community reviews for Free Rice

Overall my opinion for this product as a teaching tool is positive. Even though it is a review game for students, I feel my students get the deeper meaning civic duty in helping others.

This website is great for gaining new vocabulary on individual time.

I love this product and so do my students. They look forward to using it after they have finished their assignment. They have a lot of fun with it and learn so much as well!

Kids love this site! It teaches that we can all give in some way to help those in need.

This program provides a quick opportunity for students to engage in vocabulary learning and practice. Free Rice also supports some global awareness and allows students to contribute to ending of world hunger. It is not a site/program that will support deeper thinking or application of skills learned.

While the game does not provide feedback for incorrect answers, you do know when you are correct. Students can practice math skills and learn new vocabulary. My 4th graders enjoyed playing, trying to earn the most grains of rice they could. Even more, they loved that those grains meant they were helping someone, somewhere in the world!

Free Rice is a great tool for memorization drills such as math facts. At the same time, it helps students become socially aware and active to world hunger. Fifth graders love it and get in competition with each other to gain the most rice. It would be nice for it to have feedback for when students get answers wrong.

Donating rice to those in need was a draw for my students. They worked hard to say they had donated to the needy. I like how it is drill practice but didn't like how there was no feedback for wrong answers. It is similar to the drill/kill concept of long ago except with a "giving" component. My thought is if it gets the kids to practice their skills then it works.

Free Rice is one of those wonderfully all to rare everyone wins scenarios. Students get practice in numerous academic topic areas while increasing social consciousness by earning rice based points for much needed donations to the World Food Programme.

I think that this quiz site is highly motivational for students, because they see the grains of rice quickly building up, encouraging them to continue rapidly answering questions. Free Rice pays attention to what types of words the student is getting correct or incorrect, and uses that information to give leveled questions to the student. This is great, because it automatically differentiates without the student really even noticing. For instance, if being used for math drill-and-practice, Free Rice will recycle the 5 times tables for a student struggling with those, rather than going on to harder questions the student will not be successful at answering. The site is also great for teaching advanced students, because in the same way, if a student gets a difficult word correct, they will continue getting harder and harder words, which is extremely motivating for gifted students. My one criticism is that occasionally the site will stop counting grains of rice for a student, so they can keep playing but it doesn't add their scores. When this happens, the game loses its luster very quickly.