Course kits · 🏎️ Grand Prix

MONEY & BANKING

Finance a racing team: sponsorships, burn rate, and the cost of speed.

Built for Money & Banking courses that want interest rates and leverage to have consequences.

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What your students do

Student teams finance and run a racing outfit: allocating a weekly budget across engineering, aero, reliability, and strategy, then setting the car up for each circuit. Burn rate, sponsorship economics, and risk pricing — taught at 200 mph.

The rhythm

Grand Prix runs on a weekly cadence: teams tune their plan all week, and the race runs once — Saturday at 10 AM — as a live broadcast the whole class watches. Championship points crown the season.

Every result feeds the class leaderboard — and ventures that finish a season go on the permanent Universe Ledger.

The 15-week curriculum

Sequenced fundamentals-first, so any prefix is a coherent course: run 4 weeks as a supplement, 6 as a module, or all 15 as the semester. Each week ships an eText, a decision brief tied to the live market, a discussion, and a quiz — and the final exam covers exactly the weeks you ran.

  1. 1.What Is Money?
  2. 2.Banks & Financial Intermediation
  3. 3.Interest & the Time Value of Money
  4. 4.The Central Bank & Monetary Policy
  5. 5.Credit, Debt & Leverage
  6. 6.Bonds, Yields & Financial Markets
  7. 7.Present Value in Practice
  8. 8.Bond Pricing & the Yield Curve
  9. 9.Bank Management
  10. 10.Credit Analysis & Ratings
  11. 11.Insurance & Risk Management
  12. 12.Payments & Financial Technology
  13. 13.Financial Crises
  14. 14.Regulation & the Safety Net
  15. 15.Capstone: Financing a Racing Season

Setup takes an afternoon, not a semester

  1. 1 · Generate. Pick your course length in the Canvas Cartridge Generator and import the .imscc into Canvas — modules, assignments, quizzes, dates, all done.
  2. 2 · Invite. Create your section, put the join code on the syllabus. Students join free; one $49/year pass covers every Extrapoli course they take.
  3. 3 · Teach. The market closes daily; reports arrive with the lesson and the discussion prompt attached. The leaderboard settles every argument.

Prefer to run the sim beside your own syllabus? Skip the cartridge — the join code works on its own. See pricing →