Rent vs Buy
US K-12 CTE personal-finance simulation: a 23-year-old in Boise weighs a $300 room, a $1,200 studio, and a $250k FHA-financed starter home across…
About this simulation
Capstone simulation that follows Riley Carter from age 22 to 32 across five life events (foundation, education fork, credit build, housing decision, insurance reckoning) plus a Settle-Up that projects to 65. Composes the 881–886 personal-finance cluster around a single household-state ledger to teach compounding, opportunity cost, path-dependence, and identity-money links.
Who it is for
An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.
How a session runs
- The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
- Participants play 6 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results. The first round opens with: Foundation · Age 22.
- The simulation can be run in English, Español.
- The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.