How to read this page
British Columbia publishes its curriculum as long official documents written for teachers. This page is the same content, translated for the fridge door: each subject below shows this year's units and the skills inside them. If a skill sounds unfamiliar, that's the point — now you know what to ask about at dinner.
Mathematics this year
Math builds in layers, and this year's layer matters — each unit below leans on the ones before it. In British Columbia, that's Foundations of Mathematics and Pre-calculus 10 — 5 units, 23 skills.
Functions & Linear Relations
- Is it a function? Relations and the function idea
- Slope: positive, negative, zero, and undefined
- Common difference and the general term
Polynomials: Multiplying & Factoring
- Multiplying binomials with the area model
- Greatest common factor of a polynomial
Mathematics this year
Math builds in layers, and this year's layer matters — each unit below leans on the ones before it. In British Columbia, that's Workplace Mathematics 10 — 5 units, 11 skills.
Right-Triangle Trigonometry
- Sine, cosine, and tangent in right triangles
Measurement: Units, Surface Area & Volume
- Measuring and converting between systems
- Surface area and volume of prisms and cylinders
Central Tendency & Experimental Probability
- Mean, median, mode, range — and outliers
- Experimental probability and simulations
See the full Workplace Mathematics 10 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
English Language Arts this year
Reading, writing, and speaking skills deepen this year — less "can they read it," more "what do they make of it." In British Columbia, that's English Language Arts 10 — 4 units, 29 skills.
Reading and Comprehending Texts
- Narrative structures in First Peoples texts
- Protocols for the ownership of First Peoples oral texts
- The role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in First Peoples texts
Critical Reading: Context, Bias & Reliability
- Evaluating the relevance, accuracy, and reliability of a source
- Thinking critically and creatively about ideas within, between, and beyond texts
- Recognizing contexts, values, and perspectives in a text
Analyzing Craft: Style, Voice & Literary Devices
- Language features that carry meaning in a text
- Elements of style — diction, vocabulary, sentence structure, tone
- Voice: point of view, perspective, and persona
Composing and Communicating
- Oral language strategies (speaking with expression, clarifying, summarizing)
- Writing processes — from gathering ideas to editing
- Design processes for shaping a text's layout and format
See the full English Language Arts 10 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Science this year
Science gets more structured this year — real investigations, real explanations, real vocabulary. In British Columbia, that's Science 10 — 4 units, 25 skills.
Genetics and the Diversity of Life
- DNA structure and function
- Mendelian genetics and Punnett squares (predicting single-trait crosses)
- Dominance patterns (complete dominance, co-dominance, incomplete dominance)
Chemical Reactions and Energy Change
- How atoms rearrange in a reaction and how to balance a chemical equation
- Classifying reaction types (synthesis, decomposition, single/double replacement, combustion, neutralization)
- Acid-base chemistry (the pH scale, acids and bases, neutralization)
Energy: Conservation and Transformation
- Nuclear energy (fission vs fusion; nuclear technologies and their impacts)
- Radiation (ionizing vs non-ionizing; alpha, beta, gamma)
- The law of conservation of energy
Formation of the Universe
- The big bang theory and the evidence that supports it
- Components of the universe over time (changes to energy, matter, and fundamental forces)
- Astronomical data and collection methods (telescopes, Doppler shift, space technologies as evidence)
See the full Science 10 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
French this year
French builds through listening, speaking, and simple reading — confidence first, grammar second. In British Columbia, that's Core French 10 — 5 units, 22 skills.
Listening and Viewing with Intent
- Reading a variety of text types: format, audience, register, purpose
- Common elements of stories: place, characters, plot, problem and resolution
Expressing Ourselves and Engaging in Conversation
- The present tense as a system: describing what happens now
- The passé composé: narrating completed past events
- L'imparfait: describing ongoing and habitual past states
A New Language Shapes Perspective and Identity
- Word choice: verb-form nuance and near-synonyms (sortir vs partir)
Cultural Expression Takes Many Forms
- Idioms with avoir, faire, and être
- Slang expressions (l'argot) across la francophonie
- Figurative idiomatic expressions and their meanings
Interacting with the Francophone World
- Lives and contributions of Francophone Canadians
- Exploring the lives and contributions of Francophone Canadians
- First Peoples and French: Michif and Chinook Jargon
See the full Core French 10 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Three ways parents use this list
Common questions
What does my child learn in Grade 10 in British Columbia?
British Columbia's official curriculum sets out Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, French for Grade 10 — 132 specific skills in total. The big themes: Mathematics covers algebra & number and functions & linear relations; Mathematics covers graphs & data and right-triangle trigonometry; English Language Arts covers reading and comprehending texts and critical reading: context, bias & reliability. The full list is on this page.
Is this the official British Columbia curriculum?
It's built from British Columbia's official program of studies, reorganized into plain language — and each subject links to a course page that quotes the ministry's own wording and links to the government source, so you can check our work. One honest caveat: we're not the ministry, curricula do change, and we can't guarantee this reflects the very latest revision, so confirm anything important against the live provincial curriculum data.
My child is finding one of these skills hard. What can I do?
That's normal — every skill on this page is one most kids wobble on at first. MapleMind teaches any of them one-on-one: a short lesson in plain words, a worked example, then solving together. It's free to start, on any device, in 14 languages.
Keep exploring
Knowing the list is half the job
The other half is the teaching — and that's what MapleMind does. Pick any skill on this page and see it taught properly, free, in under a minute.
MapleMind isn't affiliated with any ministry of education. We build these guides from each province's official program of studies and refresh them from time to time — but curricula change, and we can't guarantee this page reflects the very latest revision. Always confirm against the live provincial curriculum data. Last updated 2026-08-15.
Social Studies this year
Social studies widens the lens this year — history, geography, and how communities and governments work. In British Columbia, that's Social Studies 10 — 4 units, 22 skills.
Political Institutions, Governance & Policy
- Forms of government and decision-making models
- Comparing political and economic ideologies
- Levels and branches of government
+ 4 more skills in this unit →Canadian Autonomy & Identity
Injustices & Human Rights
- Residential schools and other discriminatory policies and injustices against First Peoples
- The Chinese head tax and the Chinese Exclusion Act
- The Komagata Maru incident
+ 5 more skills in this unit →Conflict & Co-operation
- Quebec sovereignty
- Constitutional issues and accords
- First Peoples actions and organizations
+ 2 more skills in this unit →See the full Social Studies 10 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →