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.
A life-simulator paired with 14 short, plain-English lessons. Students play through careers, cities, taxes, debt, and investing; an AI guide named Kurus explains anything they get stuck on. No jargon, no lectures — they learn by doing.
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.
Pick a topic: students read the 5-minute lesson, then live it in the simulator (15–20 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.
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 selling your students' data. No financial products pushed at them. No student accounts required. It runs entirely in the browser and is built for ages 13+. The only ask is optional support that keeps it free for everyone.
Want it for your class, or a co-branded version for your school or credit union? Email [email protected].