Homeschool financial literacy course for South Africa

Homeschool personal finance course

MoneyTime is an online financial literacy course for South African children ages 10 to 15 that is perfect for use as a homeschool elective.

How MoneyTime helps homeschool parents

Homeschool parents want their children learning important life skills - like how to manage money.

MoneyTime solves this problem with it's online financial literacy programme that is ideal for use as a homeschool resource. The programme has been customised for South Africa, is easy to use and provides independent self-directed learning.

MoneyTime combines personal finance lessons with an interactive game that makes learning fun. The game allows children to make their own financial decisions with virtual money - building their knowledge through trial and error in the safety of their home.

What homeschoolers say about MoneyTime

SO happy to have this amazing programme for my boys! I can't believe how much they're learning about finances. And they're learning so much more - like real-life lessons on how to figure out want vs. need, saving, & even giving to charity. We're using it as a homeschool elective but it's turned into so much more than that 😊

Amy Milcic

We had been struggling to find a good financial education resource that is thorough and complete to use with our kids. So of course, you can imagine my excitement to come across MoneyTime and their financial literacy program for kids. Teaching children to be money smart while they are still under your financial responsibility will set them up with positive financial habits. And the MoneyTime financial literacy curriculum is the best online program on financial literacy for kids we’ve found.

Charlene Hess

I love that they can experience these things virtually first and practice their responses and I feel confident it will reduce many of the struggles that I had to face learning the hard way about money growing up. They often lose track of time when they log on to the website and end up completing more modules than I asked of them so I know they are enjoying their financial literacy assignments!

Jessica May

What MoneyTime teaches children

MoneyTime has 30 practical personal finance lessons on how to manage and grow their money in South Africa:

How people earn money
How to prepare a budget
How avoid bad debt
How people purchase houses
How investing grows wealth
How busineses make profit
How insurance works
How to keep your money safe online
Plus much, much more..

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Hands-on learning

As well as the 30 interactive lessons and quizzes, children learn experientially by playing the MoneyTime game.

Earning & Spending

Within the programme children earn virtual money for each correct quiz answer to spend on avatars and investments.

Banking

They have Current and Savings bank accounts and are required to make their own decisions around saving, spending and investing.

Investing

They learn how to grow their money by investing it in things like term fixed deposits, property and shares.

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See how MoneyTime works

Why choose MoneyTime for your homeschool financial literacy curriculum?

1. Simple to use

MoneyTime is wonderfully intuitive. Account creation is simple and there are friendly prompts through-out. Your child will have no problem getting started or navigating around the program.

2. Independent study

The program is 100% self-directed. No lesson preparation or oversight is required by you, your child can work through the programme independently at their own pace.

3. Parental involvement

However, if you'd rather be hands on you can do the lessons with your child and use our lesson guides for discussion ideas and activities to maximise your childs learning experience. Parents tell us they often learn as much as their kids from the program!

4. Easy to fit in

Lessons take just 20 minutes to complete then allow an additional 10 minutes for playing the game. The half hour slots are easy to fit in your teaching timetable and for your child to digest.

5. Regular assessment

Fun multi choice quizzes at the end of each lesson provide feedback for you both on how their financial literacy is improving. Quizzes are automatically marked and you have granular visibility on your child’s progress and scores.

6. Proof of work

Upon completion children receive a certificate showing the topics they have covered and the time taken.

Putting your child's financial literacy into context

In addition to the 30 'classroom' lessons, MoneyTime contains 13 practical lessons for you to complete with your kids.

These help reinforce your child’s learning and, most importantly, put their learning into your family's context.

They also provide you with the opportunity to have some real conversations about money and the future with your child.

Regular testing within the program shows a 42% average improvement in knowledge

More feedback from homeschoolers

You could spend hours scouring the internet for the best course on investing for kids or I could just tell you right now to head on over to the MoneyTime website and save you a whole heap of time and trouble.

Tonya Nolan

I love how MoneyTime took the guesswork out of what I need to teach my kids to make sure they have the knowledge they need to meet and exceed their financial goals when they finally enter the real world.

Betsy Strauss

It goes way beyond what I would have imagined teaching my preteen and early teen. I understand the basics of money and then some, but I am definitely not prepared to teach my kids all the technical information involved with taxes, mortgages, and investing.