About
Why Undertaught exists
Most people leave twelve years of school able to factor a quadratic and unable to do CPR, file a tax return, cook five meals, spot a phishing message or tell when stress has become something to get help for. Those skills decide far more about how a life goes.
Undertaught teaches them. We start with what matters most in an ordinary life, measure what people can actually do, and teach the gaps, one skill at a time.
What we teach
The curriculum covers 9 areas across every stage of life, from early childhood to later life, in 120 units. The Manual has a lesson for each of the 150 core skills, and the test samples skills from all nine areas.
- Body. How to sleep, eat, move and use the health system well enough to stay healthy for a long time.
- Mind. The skills that decide how your days actually go: focus, handling stress and big feelings, building habits, and getting help early.
- People. How to make and keep friends, talk to strangers, disagree well, apologise properly and hold your own at work.
- Money. The money decisions everyone makes and few are taught: budgeting, credit, interest, contracts, taxes and saving for later, for the US and Canada.
- Safety. The emergency skills that save lives in the minutes before help arrives. Read them here, then practise them in a certified class.
- Information. How to protect your accounts, spot scams, check a claim, use AI carefully and read the numbers in the news.
- Kitchen. From cracking an egg to feeding six: knife skills, food safety, planning a week of meals and cooking without a recipe.
- Home. Running a home: cleaning safely, laundry, small repairs, renting your first place and being ready for an emergency.
- Hands. Practical skills with your hands: tying knots, using basic tools, sewing, assembling furniture and changing a tire.
How we check facts
- Every number comes from a primary source we opened: a government agency, an official statistics office, a published survey report or a peer-reviewed paper. It is cited where it appears.
- Numbers people reported about themselves are labelled self-reported. They are often more flattering than measured ones.
- Emergency and health lessons follow current guidance from bodies such as the American Heart Association, the American Red Cross, the Lifesaving Society, the CDC, Health Canada and USDA, and send you to a certified class where one exists.
- Each lesson, guide and report is drafted with AI tools, then checked in a separate AI review whose only job is to find what is wrong: every number is matched against the passage in the source that states it, and claims the source does not support are cut.
- We re-check every source link and every cited number on a schedule. Pages that have moved are relinked, pages that have disappeared are replaced or linked to an archived copy, and the date of the last full check is printed under each lesson’s sources. Last full check: .
- Where the US and Canada differ, as with taxes and retirement accounts, lessons give both.
What the lessons are not
They are general education, not medical, legal or financial advice, and reading about CPR is not the same as practising it. If something here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will fix it.