BUILD.
COMPETE.
WIN.
The business simulation platform where students don't just learn, they fight to be #1. Real decisions, a daily 5 PM market close, and a leaderboard that settles every argument.
Two full fifteen-week courses run on the platform, Business Mathematics and Intro to Business, both through Food Truck Wars. In Business Mathematics the numbers grade themselves against what each team actually produced.
And nothing here resets: every venture your students build becomes a permanent part of the Extrapoli Universe.
The whole course runs here
Business Mathematics and Intro to Business are fifteen weeks each on Extrapoli: the week's reading, practice that checks itself, and a two-part assignment. No textbook to buy and nothing to import.
Every student's right answer is their own.
The quantitative half is marked against the student's own simulation: the decisions their team actually made, on the day they chose, at the prices they set. The engine knows the right answer and checks it to the cent, so it is graded exactly against figures the student beside them does not have.
That is Business Mathematics: 14 of its 15 weeks work that way, and the other hands the whole section the same loan on purpose, because amortisation is a worked example rather than an outcome. Intro to Business runs here too, with the same reading and practice; its figures go to you rather than to the engine.
Fifteen weeks, written
Each week opens with its own reading, sequenced fundamentals-first, then practice a student can check before anything counts.
It grades itself
All 15 weeks of Business Mathematics grade the numbers automatically, 14 of them against that crew's own results. The written half, where a student defends the decision, stays the instructor's.
A certificate at the end
Finish the course and the platform issues one, in the Extrapoli palette, for a student to keep and share.
Canvas if you want it
The same course still exports as a cartridge, so a department that lives in its LMS is not asked to leave it.
Business Mathematics and Intro to Business run end to end on Extrapoli today, both taught through Food Truck Wars. The other 4 ship as Canvas course kits, with the simulation running here and the coursework in your LMS. Compare all 6 →
Choose your world
Every game is a new market. Every decision has consequences. Every win is earned. One sim fits many courses: each ships with a ready-to-teach course kit, and the courses it also fits pair it with your own syllabus.
Food Truck Wars
Find the crowds. Outsmart your rivals. Dominate downtown.
- Entrepreneurship & Small Business
- Managerial Accounting
- Operations Management
- Principles of Marketing
- Principles of Management
- Financial Accounting
Peak Season
Run the mountain through a shifting economy — snow, credit, confidence, survival.
- Corporate Finance
- Risk Management & Insurance
- Hospitality & Tourism
- Budgeting & Managerial Accounting
- Business Strategy
Grand Prix
Finance a racing team: sponsorships, burn rate, and the cost of speed. One race every week — Saturdays at 10 AM.
- Corporate Finance
- Entrepreneurial Finance
- Sports Management
- Risk Management
- Project Management
- Business Analytics
Coffee Shop Clash
Your rival just opened across the street. Marginal cost meets morning rush.
- Principles of Marketing
- Pricing Strategy
- Managerial Economics
- Strategic Management
- Consumer Behavior
- Hospitality Management
Stock Exchange
Analyze. Invest. Grow. Beat the market — and your classmates.
- Personal Finance
- Financial Literacy
- Corporate Finance
- Business Statistics
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Behavioral Finance
How the arena runs
Instructor opens the arena
Create a section, set your dates, share the join code. One optional checkbox connects it to the Extrapoli Universe, you never configure an economy.
Every team founds a venture
Students join, team up, and name their business, the name goes on the permanent universe record. Then they price, staff, stock, and spend.
The market closes at 5 PM
Every venture runs at once, every day, weekends included. Grand Prix settles it with a Saturday race; Stock Exchange trades real market hours. Either way the reports explain what happened and why, and the leaderboard does the rest.
Most simulations reset. Extrapoli remembers.
Every venture ever founded goes on the permanent universe record, its name, its wins, its story. Foundings, pivots, expansions, and race victories are written to a ledger that never resets, and the leaderboards run in three tiers: class, campus, universe. New students don't start from nothing. They enter a world with history, and try to out-build everyone who came before.
Bao Bros. is founded, the name goes on the record
Class champion at the final market close
Cracks the campus top ten
On the universe record, alongside every venture ever run
A new class arrives, and tries to beat it
Sections that join the Universe also share the same daily economic brief, every campus reading the same morning headlines, riding the same economy.
See the Universe Ledger →Your students think they're playing.
You know they're learning.
Two ways to run it. Teach the course on Extrapoli, or keep your LMS and import the whole thing.
🎓 The course, on Extrapoli
Open a section, share the join code, and teach from the platform. Nothing to import and nothing to keep in sync:
- ✅ Fifteen weekly lessons with the reading built in, no textbook to buy
- ✅ Practice a student can check before anything is graded
- ✅ In Business Mathematics, every week's numbers graded automatically, 14 of 15 against that team's own results
- ✅ The written half left to you, with each team's figures beside it
- ✅ A certificate when a student finishes the course
📦 Canvas Course Kit
Fill in your course details, download one file, import to Canvas. A complete, ready-to-teach course shell, authored and verified, not auto-generated:
- ✅ 1 to 15 weekly modules (you pick the length) with self-contained eTexts
- ✅ 20-question auto-graded quizzes every week
- ✅ Two-part weekly assignments: compute the numbers, then defend the decision
- ✅ Graded discussions and a comprehensive final exam
- ✅ Branded home page, full syllabus, and due dates on your calendar
🧾 Reports that teach
Every market close explains what happened and why, and names the business concept that shaped the day, with a ready-made discussion prompt from each team's own numbers.
📊 A console built for class
Rosters and team assignment, pacing controls (pause a week, set the close hour), visibility into who saved each team's decisions, and one-click CSV grade export.
💸 Free for instructors
No department approval, no sales call. Students pay $49 a year, one Annual Pass covers every Extrapoli course they take, see pricing →
Born in a real classroom
Extrapoli wasn't designed in a boardroom, it grew out of live courses where the spreadsheet version already had students scheming in group chats.
Tested live across micro, macro, business math, and money & banking.
Students naturally create group chats, strategy calls, and team systems.
AI weakens passive assignments. It strengthens decision-based learning.
Ready to launch something epic?
Set up takes one afternoon. Your students will take it from there; they always do.