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The personal-finance class your students won't skip

Most financial-literacy tools are worksheets with a login. Kurus is a game: students live a 40-year life (career, rent, debt, a market crash) and feel why the money lessons matter. Free, standards-aligned, and ready in one class period.

Domains
6
Lessons
32
A lesson
5MIN
A life
20TO 30 MIN

What it is

A life-simulator paired with 32 short, plain-English lessons and a stock market game. Students play through careers, cities, taxes, debt, and investing, and read the lesson that explains what just happened. No jargon, no lectures: they learn by doing.

Why students actually engage

It plays like the life-sim games they already love, not like homework. Every choice has a consequence they watch unfold over decades, which is what makes the lesson stick.

Use it in one class period

Pick a topic: students read the 5-minute lesson, then live it in the simulator (20 to 30 minutes), then discuss what happened. Or assign a full life as a project and compare outcomes. No prep, no setup, no grading software to wrestle with.

  • Read the lesson5 MIN
  • Live it in the simulator20 TO 30 MIN
  • Talk about what happened10 TO 15 MIN
About 45 minutes end to end: a period, with time to spare.

Standards-aligned

Kurus maps to all six domains of the 2021 National Standards for Personal Financial Education (Council for Economic Education & Jump$tart), the framework most state requirements build on. See the full standards alignment

No ads, no accounts, nothing to buy

No ads. No selling your students' data. No financial products pushed at them. No student accounts required, and we would rather your students did not make one. It runs entirely in the browser and is built for high-school personal finance. It is free, with nothing to buy.

See it for yourself. No sign-up.

Start a life on the projector, then open the lesson that explains what just happened.

Open Live a LifeOpen Money Lessons
About the game

One address for everything

[email protected]

Want it for your class, or a co-branded version for your school or credit union? Say which class and what you are teaching and you will get a straight answer, not a sales sequence.

Questions

What teachers ask first

  1. 01Is it free?
  2. 02Which standards does it cover?
  3. 03Do students need to create accounts?
  4. 04How long does it take?
  5. 05What grade level is it for?

Is it free?

Yes: free for students and teachers, forever. No ads, and nothing is sold to your students.

Which standards does it cover?

All six domains of the 2021 National Standards for Personal Financial Education (CEE & Jump$tart).

Do students need to create accounts?

No, and they should not. Every part of Kurus runs in the browser with no sign-up and no personal data collected. The optional extras that do ask for a name or an email (a saved profile, a public leaderboard handle, email updates) are for ages 13 and up; students under 13 can use everything else exactly as it is.

How long does it take?

A single lesson takes about 5 minutes; living a full life in the simulator runs about 20 to 30 minutes. Use a lesson as a warm-up, or assign a whole life as a project.

What grade level is it for?

Built for high-school personal finance, and it works for adult learners too. Younger classes can play and read everything.