Comments on: Free Rice - Increase English Vocabulary and Feed the World’s Hungry

by: nathan

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:09:34 +0000

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!

by: Charlie

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:25:04 +0000

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 5¢ 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?

by: nathan

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:05:15 +0000

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

by: Helen :)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:53:05 +0000

We just recently learned about this site too (from Spencer’s Social Studies/English teacher). She has her Middle School students doing this!