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Manitoba 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 Manitoba, that's Applied Mathematics, Grade 11 (30S) — 6 units, 19 skills.
Relations and Functions
- Systems of linear inequalities and linear programming
See the full Applied Mathematics, Grade 11 (30S) curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Mathematics this year
Math builds in layers, and this year's layer matters — each unit below leans on the ones before it. In Manitoba, that's Essential Mathematics, Grade 11 (30S) — 8 units, 25 skills.
Statistics
- Choosing and interpreting graphs
Relations and Patterns
- Slope as rise over run
- Recognizing and representing linear relations
Trigonometry
- Problems with two and three right triangles
See the full Essential Mathematics, Grade 11 (30S) curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Mathematics this year
Math builds in layers, and this year's layer matters — each unit below leans on the ones before it. In Manitoba, that's Pre-Calculus Mathematics, Grade 11 (30S) — 3 units, 32 skills.
Algebra and Number
- Absolute value of real numbers
- Equivalent rational expressions and non-permissible values
Trigonometry
- Angles in standard position
- Deriving and applying the sine and cosine laws
Relations and Functions
- Factoring trinomials and differences of squares
- Graphing absolute value functions
- Transformation effects in vertex form
See the full Pre-Calculus Mathematics, Grade 11 (30S) 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 Manitoba, that's English Language Arts, Grade 11 — 4 units, 47 skills.
Explore and Discover Language and Literacy
- Listening critically to oral texts
- Adjusting language to foster inclusive interaction
- Using the rules and structures of oral language
Comprehend and Respond to Multimodal Texts
- Activating prior knowledge to build understanding
- Engaging with a variety of multimodal texts
- Analyzing and synthesizing information across sources
Compose and Create Multimodal Texts
- Selecting and focusing a topic
- Researching and evaluating sources
- Planning with strategies and tools
Communicate Ideas and Build New Understandings
- Using tone, volume and expression for delivery
- Reflecting on and reviewing personal growth
- Setting learning goals and planning steps
See the full English Language Arts, Grade 11 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Science this year
Science gets more structured this year — real investigations, real explanations, real vocabulary. In Manitoba, that's Biology, Grade 11 (Biology 30S) — 6 units, 62 skills.
Wellness and Homeostasis
- Increase awareness of personal wellness, as well as personal and family health history
- Describe how the body attempts to maintain an internal balance called
- Explain how cell membranes regulate movement of materials into and out of cells
Digestion and Nutrition
- Identify major structures and functions of the human digestive system
- Identify sites of chemical digestion along the alimentary canal, as
- Describe the functions of each of the six basic types of nutrients—
Transportation and Respiration
- Design and execute an experiment to investigate an aspect of the transportation or respiratory
- Compare the structure and function of blood vessels
- Explain how transport systems help to maintain homeostasis in the body
Excretion and Waste Management
- Identify the primary metabolic wastes produced in the human body and the source of each
- Identify structures of the human urinary system from a diagram
- Describe what types of information can be gained through urinalysis
Protection and Control
- Describe the body's defence mechanisms for protection from foreign
- Describe the major organization of the nervous system
- Explain the effects of a concussion on brain function and the implications of multiple concussions
Wellness and Homeostatic Changes
- Analyze examples of how different body systems work together to maintain homeostasis under various
- Recognize the difficulties faced in defining “death” and identify
See the full Biology, Grade 11 (Biology 30S) curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Science this year
Science gets more structured this year — real investigations, real explanations, real vocabulary. In Manitoba, that's Chemistry, Grade 11 — 5 units, 76 skills.
Topic 1: Physical Properties of Matter
- Properties of gases, liquids, solids, and plasma
Topic 2: Gases and the Atmosphere
- Composition and history of the atmosphere
- Pressure and volume (Boyle's Law)
Topic 3: Chemical Reactions
- Average atomic mass from isotopes
- Balancing and classifying equations
- The mole and its importance
Topic 4: Solutions
- Types of solutions
- Constructing a solubility curve
- Freezing-point and boiling-point lab
Topic 5: Organic Chemistry
- Inorganic versus organic chemistry
- Aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons
- Polymerization
See the full Chemistry, Grade 11 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Science this year
Science gets more structured this year — real investigations, real explanations, real vocabulary. In Manitoba, that's Physics, Grade 11 — 4 units, 90 skills.
Unit 1: Waves
- A wave as a transfer of energy
- Two-dimensional waves
- How sound is produced and detected
Unit 2: The Nature of Light
- Observations, inferences, models, and laws
- Historical models of light
Unit 4: Fields
- Gravitational field (qualitative)
- Electric field (qualitative)
- Defining the magnetic field
See the full Physics, Grade 11 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Science this year
Science gets more structured this year — real investigations, real explanations, real vocabulary. In Manitoba, that's Current Topics in the Sciences, Grade 11 (Current Topics in the Sciences 30S) — 3 units, 28 skills.
Nature of Science and Technology
- Science versus technology: goals and methods
- How history shapes a society's philosophy of science
Science, Technology, Society, and the Environment
- Describing scientific and technological developments
- Factors that affect health
Essential Concepts
- Using similarity to organize experience
- Change and constancy
French this year
French builds through listening, speaking, and simple reading — confidence first, grammar second. In Manitoba, that's Core French, Grade 11 — 4 units, 26 skills.
Oral Communication
- Understanding and interpreting oral messages
- Talking about the past
- Justifying a viewpoint
Writing
- Purpose, conventions, and describing
- Writing advice and predictions
- Organizing varied, coherent texts
See the full Core French, Grade 11 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
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Common questions
What does my child learn in Grade 11 in Manitoba?
Manitoba's official curriculum sets out Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, French for Grade 11 — 443 specific skills in total. The big themes: Mathematics covers measurement and geometry; Mathematics covers analysis of games and numbers and interest and credit; Mathematics covers algebra and number and trigonometry. The full list is on this page.
Is this the official Manitoba curriculum?
It's built from Manitoba'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?
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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 Manitoba, that's History of Canada, Grade 11 — 5 units, 38 skills.
First Peoples and Nouvelle-France (to 1763)
- What history is and thinking historically
- Diverse First Peoples societies
- Why the French and Europeans came
+ 5 more skills in this unit →British North America (1763-1867)
- Changing British colonial rule
- Fur trade and settlement transform the Northwest
- Why Confederation happened
+ 3 more skills in this unit →Becoming a Sovereign Nation (1867-1931)
- Why the Métis resisted
- Expansion and immigration
- The numbered treaties
+ 5 more skills in this unit →Achievements and Challenges (1931-1982)
- The Depression and its response
- National institutions and identity
- Canada in the Second World War
+ 4 more skills in this unit →Defining Contemporary Canada (1982-present)
- The Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Québec referendums and sovereignty
- Land claims and self-government
+ 6 more skills in this unit →See the full History of Canada, Grade 11 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →