For teachers
A financial literacy curriculum you can actually assign.
136 fact-checked lessons on budgeting, saving, credit, taxes, and investing — each with a quiz, each mapped to a standard. Create a class, share a join code, assign lessons, and see exactly where every student is. It is free, and it stays free.
No paywall, no ads, no upsell. Finly Foundation is a North Carolina nonprofit.
What you get
- Assign any lesson to the whole class, with an optional due date
- A per-student progress board: lessons completed, quiz scores, XP, and streaks
- Sort students by progress, XP, streak, or name to spot who is stuck
- Read students' short written answers alongside their quiz results
- Two age tracks so one account covers a middle and a high school section
- Students join with a code — no student email addresses collected
Setting up takes about five minutes
01
Make a free teacher account
An email address is all it takes. No credit card, no school purchase order, no trial period.
02
Create a class
Name it whatever you call it — “Period 3 Economics” — and pick the age track: ages 8–12 or 13–17.
03
Share the six-character join code
Students enter it at /join. They do not need their own email address to join your class.
04
Assign lessons and watch the board
Assign any lesson, optionally with a due date. Your class page shows who finished what, their quiz scores, and their written answers.
Standards alignment
Every standard gets its own lesson
Finly is built benchmark by benchmark rather than retrofitted to a standards chart, so you can point at a benchmark and hand a student the lesson that teaches it.
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Economics lessons
The 18 national content standards in K-12 economics, broken into one lesson per benchmark across elementary, middle, and high school.
CEE National Content Standards in K-12 Economics, 3rd Edition (2025)
Browse economics135
Personal Finance lessons
The six personal finance topics, broken into one lesson per standard across grades 4, 8, and 12.
National Standards for Personal Financial Education (CEE & Jump$tart Coalition, 2021)
Browse personal financeNorth Carolina teachers: the Economics & Personal Finance curriculum follows the NC EPF course sequence objective by objective.
Beyond the lessons
Portfolio simulator
Students invest a virtual $10,000 in real S&P 500 companies against historical market data. Works well as a semester-long running activity.
Open the simulatorPaycheck simulator
Gross pay in, taxes out, take-home pay and a budget split at the end. A clean way to open a unit on earning income and taxes.
Open the simulatorUsing Finly with a class? Tell me what is missing.
Finly is built and maintained by one high schooler. If something does not fit how you actually teach, say so and it can change.
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