Keri Tibbets

Keri Tibbits

Keri is a mother of six, a homeschooler of 20 years, a private math tutor and a private school teacher of 2 years. She loves learning and helping students to fall in love with learning. She especially enjoys coming to understand different peoples, countries, cultures, histories, beliefs and customs from around the world.  She has spent time on four different continents and lived in China. Keri graduated from Utah State University with a Bachelor degree in Exercise Physiology. She loves reading, writing, discussing great ideas, cooking, baking, exercising, and all active things outdoors. Her favorites are mountain biking, skiing, hiking and rock climbing.  With a special interest in how children learn, Keri has spent two decades researching, discussing and discovering how to help students fall in love with learning and drive their own life-long educations. Nothing is more exciting to her than to see students caught up in a great book, their hearts aglow with interest, and their minds engaged without effort because of the natural joy of learning.

  • 8th Grade, 9th Grade, and 10th-12th Grades

    Keri will be teaching Language Arts for 8th, 9th, and 10th-12th grades. Here we will learn to appreciate and memorize great poetry, scriptures, and speeches. We will also discover how to perfect our grammar, spelling, and writing skills using the holistic organic approaches taught by Charlotte Mason, as we write about meaningful themes from great works of literature. By keeping it meaningful, our hearts lead and our minds follow, and the more tedious subjects like grammar and spelling become welcome and powerful tools for our own expression of ideas.

  • What Classical Math Offers:

    • Polish logic skills.

    • Prepare for the study of philosophy.

    • Arm against rhetoric and sophistry.

    • Learn geometry from the inside out.

    • Offered to students beginning at age 12+.

    Geometry: The language of philosophy… Euclid is an ancient geometry textbook containing the propositions that make up the study of geometry as we know it today. Historically, geometry was known as the language of philosophy and it was always a pre-requisite to higher education because an understanding of its principles was known to equip students with the ability to think and communicate clearly, reasonably and soundly.

    But isn’t geometry math? What does it have to do with philosophy?

    A sort of arming against sophistry and rhetoric, a sound understanding of the core principles of geometry will enable students to see through the smooth-tongued, and emotionally charged, as they practice anchoring themselves in plain and simple logic by forming proofs based on common notions and prior proofs.

    Often we hear arguments that feel off or rub us the wrong way, yet we do not always know how to identify nor articulate the error we sense. A study of Euclid is an intense training in logic and will produce in the student not only a keen awareness of flimsy, false, or circular logic, but also the ability to name it, call it out, and clearly communicate their own views.

    As a nice side-perk to the study of Euclid, students will find that they can already understand and quite easily apply the concepts and tasks of modern geometry. Not only will they know how to “do the problems” but they will comprehend their meaning.

    Years ago, when asked what he thought of his modern geometry class, my 15 year old son replied “I already know how to do all of the problems…It’s like Euclid, except easy!”

    “Then why the great effort to study Euclid if Geometry is easier?” you may ask. I would answer that when you study Euclid, you comprehend why the concepts are true. In modern geometry you simply use those rules to solve problems. This is the same pattern made manifest in the students’ comprehension and debate skills. Rather than just knowing how to apply given rules to real world problem solving, they will know how to think about the rules, and how to detect flaws in their validity.