Daughter came home with this cool website - www.freerice.com
According to the site, it has two goals:
- Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
- Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Do Good, Improve Vocabulary
Daughter came home with this cool website - www.freerice.com
According to the site, it has two goals:
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Now I know why I did so well on the SAT's. I'm the queen of "guessing." I managed to get 600 grains of rice before I got tired and I learned some good words along the way.
Greek and Latin finally came in handy...though I only got to 320 before I got distracted (me, distracted??) and found myself elsewhere.
Yet another fascinating way to pass time on the computer! You'd really have to do this a while...they're saying grains of rice, right?
Maybe it will still be up and running for SAT practice for J. in Jan!
I got up to over 700 grains before I had to stop. This is a great word builder. But how come the words seemed easier at the higher levels? I got up as high as level 46, which means. . .anything? Nothing?
Fun though.
I saw in the FAQ that the first few words are a way to establish your level; from there, the more words you get right, the harder the words it throws at you. If you get some wrong, it drops the level again. I saw this happen when I got a string of words derived from Germanic rather than Graeco-Roman roots :)
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