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Finally, a finance lesson
your students won't forget.

Free, interactive simulations for business and personal finance — built for high school and college classrooms, useful for anyone who wants to understand money before it actually matters.

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4 simulations live
Teacher guide included
Standards Aligned
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Standards Aligned
Jump$tart · CEE · Perkins V · CASEL · NGPF
Built for Classrooms
Zero setup. Works on any device.
Built by Olivia Gonzales, MBA Candidate — University of Texas at Austin
Future Ready Business is an independent education startup focused on experiential financial literacy.
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Why teachers use it

No prep. No tech setup.
Open the link and teach.

No prep kits, no subscriptions, no IT tickets. Just interactive activities students will actually remember — because they lived through the decisions themselves.

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Real Decisions, Real Consequences
Students set an APR, charge real purchases, and watch minimum payments barely dent the balance. The math hits differently when it's theirs.
Ready in Under a Minute
Open a browser, share the link, and go. No accounts, no downloads, no setup. Works on any device in your classroom right now.
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Built-In Discussion Material
Every simulation includes reflection questions and outcome comparisons — so you walk out of class with a real conversation, not just an activity checkbox.
Free. No Catch.
No paywalls, no freemium limits, no "premium features." Every simulation is completely free — because financial literacy shouldn't cost anything to teach.
Curriculum library

Five units.
Two live now. More this fall.

Organized by topic — Budgeting, Credit, Saving, Investing, and Taxes. Each unit maps to national personal finance standards. New simulations added before every school year.

Standards Aligned
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How it works

Three steps. Zero friction.

No tech background required. Open it, run it, talk about what happened.

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Pick a simulation
Browse the library and choose an activity that fits your unit. Every sim includes a time estimate, learning objectives, and a built-in teacher guide.
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Run it in class
Share the link or project it. Works individually, in pairs, or as a whole-class activity. Students make real decisions and see consequences immediately.
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Debrief together
Built-in reflection questions give you instant discussion material. Compare outcomes, surface surprises, and dig into the decisions that led there.
The library

Five live. All free.

Activities across personal finance, career readiness, business, and economics — for classrooms and real life.

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Credit Card & Debt Simulation
Make 6 months of real payment decisions and discover the true cost of minimum-only payments. The numbers are yours — so the lesson actually lands.
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Budgeting Simulation
Allocate a real paycheck across housing, food, transportation, savings, and fun — then see what's left at the end of the month. Trade-offs are immediate.
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Career Decision Simulation
Explore career paths, weigh real trade-offs between salary, education, and lifestyle, and see how early decisions shape long-term outcomes.
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Career Archetype Assessment
14 scenario-based questions reveal a student's core strengths and working style — and which career paths fit them best. Takes about 8 minutes.
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First Paycheck Lab
Choose a career, build a budget, face a real-world curveball, and make a financial trade-off — all in one focused Trade-Off Lab experience.

New simulations are released each semester. Join the list to be notified.

More on the way. Entrepreneurship Challenge, Income & Taxes, and Saving & Investing Basics are in development — dropping before the next school year.
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