Community reviews for Free Rice

Great tool. It offers a nice way to practice. Very intuitive and I like the part of donating.

Nice in principle, not a deep enough learning tool to facilitate acquisition of meaningful course related content. Students enjoy the thrill and challenge of 'getting it right' but as the answers/questions repeat themselves it only tests basic recall rather than higher order thinking.

This is another website that lives at the bottom of blooms taxonomy of understanding. Its great because it donates to 3rd world countries. Without this feature this website would lack the essential tools needed to engage students.

I love the concept of freerice.com. It connects learning to social change by using a word or a mathematical equation to fill up a bowl of rice to help prevent global hunger.

Good for students who are socially conscious and independently motivated.

Common Core demands higher level and varied vocabulary use. This site exposes students to new vocabulary and allows for practice. It is engaging and has a global citizen aspect to it as you are able to see the rice fill up the bowls and help feed hungry people.

This is a great vocabulary game for students to work alone or in competition with others. Nice features: missed questions are repeated, each word can be pronounced with a click, the site encourages philanthropy.

My fifth graders eat up most chances for online games and skill practice, and appreciate the added angle of contributing to a compassionate goal-however small each grain of rice.

At first glance, this seemed like a fairly basic 'game' that had a fairly short shelf life. How wrong I was! Free Rice hooks students in multiple ways. It is a game; it's not considered 'learning' by many students. It has a win/lose outcome and a method of tracking score (via grains of rice). Lastly, it has a feel-good factor; students can take pride in the fact that they are helping those less fortunate. For teachers there is the added bonus of increasing or decreasing difficulty levels according to class ability and progress, as well as many informative links that help students to become aware of events in the wider world around them. Although there are dozens of topics to quiz students on, the main limitation is that the website doesn't seem to allow teachers to tailor questions to their needs and learning goals.

We still need drill and practice sometimes. This site makes my kids feel like philanthropists by practicing typing and vocabulary while donating rice to hungry people. They come in and tell me how much rice they have accumulated and will even compete to see who got the most.