Market Tower
Making your money work for you while you sleep.
Investing means putting your money into something with the expectation that it will grow over time.
Saving vs. Investing:
Where people invest:
The power of time: If you invest $100/month starting at age 15 in an index fund that averages 10% yearly return:
That's right — $100/month can become $1.7 million. The secret? Start early and let compound growth do the work.
Farmer Fox had 10 seeds. He could eat them right now (yum!) or plant them in the ground and wait.
He planted 5 seeds and ate 5. After a few months, each planted seed grew into a big plant with 20 seeds each! 5 seeds became 100 seeds!
Investing is like planting seeds. Instead of using all your money now, you put some of it somewhere it can grow. It takes time and patience, but the results can be amazing.
Your KidCash interest is a tiny version of investing — your money grows a little bit every week or month, just like Farmer Fox's seeds!
Go through a short lesson with the KidCash mascot, three or four cards with a question to tap and reveal on each set. Last comes a three-question checkpoint: answer two correctly to clear the planet and earn the Future Investor badge. Lesson progress stays in this browser; when a kid signs in, planet badges and any Family-plan badge rewards save to their KidCash profile.
Land on Market Tower to try the lesson cards and checkpoint. Then play the mini game, which practices the same idea.
The game: Stock Mountain: read each year’s news, then decide when to buy and when to sell your shares.