Every learning app asks your kid to click. Ours asks them to explain.
The Third Teacher is a spoken, Socratic tutor for homeschool families. It never hands your child an answer. It asks smaller and smaller questions until your child finds the answer — and then asks them to teach it back.
In family beta. One family at a time.
RIGBY
Your shop has two rare fusion crystals — Crystal A: 4,832 coins, Crystal B: 4,328 coins. Which is more expensive — and how do you know, just by looking at the digits?
STRAT, AGE 8 (SPOKEN ALOUD)
Crystal A. Both thousands are a four, then I looked at the hundreds — there was 800 on Crystal A and only 300 on Crystal B... so Crystal A's the answer.
RIGBY
That's the real trick mathematicians use — comparing place by place, left to right. And you invented it yourself just now.
01 — How it teaches
It never just gives the answer.
Ask it for the answer and it asks you a smaller question. That is the whole method — the one tutors have used since Socrates, running patiently, every day, without a schedule.
Your child talks. It listens.
Lessons are spoken out loud — no typing needed. Kids reason at the speed of their voice, years ahead of their hands.
Mastery is earned, not clicked.
A concept counts only when your child can teach it back — twice, on different days. Then it comes back for review at three days, ten days, thirty. Green checkmarks are cheap. Explanations aren't.
02 — Parents see everything
The only tutor with an open door.
Every word of every lesson is saved and readable by you — there is no private channel between the tutor and your child. You get a live mastery map against state standards, so "how's math going?" has a real answer.
And if your child ever says something that worries us — about being hurt, scared, or unsafe — the lesson stops, your child is pointed straight back to you, and an alert lands in your inbox that moment. Not on a dashboard you have to remember to check.
03 — Works with your homeschool
Built for charter paperwork, not against it.
Every lesson is coded to a standard (California Common Core math today, more subjects next). When your ES meeting comes around, you export a month of real work samples — the problem, your child's own reasoning, the standard code — instead of scrambling for screenshots.
4.NBT.1 · 4.OA.3 · 4.NF.1 · … 44 standards mapped, 4th grade spine + 5th grade stretch.
04 — Why "the third"
Parents first. The world second. Us third.
The Reggio Emilia educators taught that a child's first teacher is their parents, and the second is the world around them.
We built the third teacher — one that knows its place. Below you. Transparent to you. In service of your family.
05 — From the founder
I'm a homeschool dad in the Sierra Nevada foothills. I built this for my son, who is eight, designs his own video games, and can out-argue me before breakfast — but couldn't type a sentence without losing his train of thought.
So I built a teacher he could talk to. He uses it every day. Last month he asked me for more math. I'm still not over it.
— Brandon, Ovalike LLC
06 — Join us
We're letting families in slowly.
The Third Teacher is in family beta. Leave your email and we'll write when a spot opens — no newsletter, no drip campaign, just the one email that matters.