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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 12 (40S) — 6 units, 27 skills.
Financial Mathematics
- Compound versus simple interest
- Appreciation, depreciation, and comparing options
- Investment value and the Rule of 72
Logical Reasoning
- Strategies for puzzles and games
- Sets and Venn diagram operations
- If-then statements and their forms
Probability
- Interpreting odds and probability
- Mutually exclusive and non-mutually exclusive events
- The fundamental counting principle
Relations and Functions
- Modelling data with polynomial functions
- Modelling data with exponential functions
Mathematics Research Project
- Designing the project and collecting data
See the full Applied Mathematics, Grade 12 (40S) 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 12 (40S) — 9 units, 24 skills.
Analysis of Games and Numbers
- Strategies for puzzles and games
- Applying strategies to a new game
Statistics
- Mean, median, mode, and outliers
- Understanding percentiles
Geometry and Trigonometry
- Solving triangles with the sine and cosine law
- Triangles and quadrilaterals
Business Finance
- Business expenses and feasible options
- Business taxation forms and deductions
See the full Essential Mathematics, Grade 12 (40S) 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 12 (40S) — 3 units, 34 skills.
Trigonometry
- Sketching and converting angles
- The equation of the unit circle
- Graphs of sine, cosine, and tangent
Relations and Functions
- Operations on functions
- Translations of graphs
- Understanding logarithms
Permutations, Combinations and Binomial Theorem
- The fundamental counting principle
- Pascal's triangle and binomial patterns
See the full Pre-Calculus Mathematics, Grade 12 (40S) 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 Introduction to Calculus, Grade 12 (40S) — 4 units, 19 skills.
Limits
- Understanding limits graphically
- Evaluating limits algebraically
- Continuity of a function
Derivatives
- From secant slope to tangent slope
- Power, constant, and sum rules
- Implicit differentiation
Applications of Derivatives
- Velocity and acceleration
- Increasing, decreasing, and extrema
- Optimization
Integration (Integrals)
- Antiderivatives and integration
- Understanding the definite integral
- Solving problems with integration
See the full Introduction to Calculus, Grade 12 (40S) 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 12 — 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 12 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 12 (Biology 40S) — 5 units, 45 skills.
Understanding Biological Inheritance
- Outline Gregor Mendel's principles of inheritance
- Use Punnett squares to solve a variety of autosomal inheritance
- Explain the basis for sex determination in humans
Mechanisms of Inheritance
- Outline significant scientific contributions/discoveries that led to the current understanding
- Compare DNA and RNA in terms of their structure, use, and location in the cell
- Relate the consequences of gene mutation to the final protein product
Evolutionary Theory and Biodiversity
- Define the term evolution, explaining how evolution has led to biodiversity by altering populations
- Explain how natural selection leads to changes in populations
- Describe how populations can become reproductively isolated
Organizing Biodiversity
- Define the concept of biodiversity in terms of ecosystem, species
- Describe the dynamic nature of classification
- Compare the characteristics of the domains of life
Conservation of Biodiversity
- Discuss a variety of reasons for maintaining biodiversity
See the full Biology, Grade 12 (Biology 40S) 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 12 — 6 units, 65 skills.
Topic 1: Reactions in Aqueous Solutions
- Solubility and precipitation
- Neutralization equations
- Understanding oxidation and reduction
Topic 2: Atomic Structure
- The electromagnetic spectrum
- History of the quantum mechanical model
Topic 3: Chemical Kinetics
- Defining reaction rate
- Factors affecting reaction rate
Topic 4: Chemical Equilibrium
- The concept of equilibrium
- Predicting equilibrium shifts
- Solubility product expressions
Topic 5: Acids and Bases
- Historical acid-base theories
- Strong and weak acids and bases
Topic 6: Electrochemistry
- Developing an activity series
- Standard electrode potential
- Voltaic versus electrolytic cells
See the full Chemistry, Grade 12 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 12 — 4 units, 79 skills.
Unit 1: Mechanics
- Deriving the constant-acceleration equations
- Objects in equilibrium
- The impulse-momentum equation
Unit 2: Fields
- Issues of space exploration
- Universal gravitation and weight
- Inverse-square gravitational and electric fields
Unit 4: Medical Physics
- The nuclear model of the atom
- Ionizing and non-ionizing radiation
See the full Physics, Grade 12 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Social Studies this year
Social studies widens the lens this year — history, geography, and how communities and governments work. In Manitoba, that's Global Issues: Citizenship and Sustainability, Grade 12 — 3 units, 20 skills.
Ecological Sustainability
- The ecological footprint
- Decisions and their consequences
- Why consumerism is unsustainable
Media, Power, and Political Systems
- Power and responsibility to effect change
- Media are not neutral
- How systems distribute power
Human Dignity and Indigenous Knowledge
- Indigenous knowledge as an alternative
- A just society and human rights
- One interdependent human family
Social Studies this year
Social studies widens the lens this year — history, geography, and how communities and governments work. In Manitoba, that's Law, Grade 12 — 10 units, 85 skills.
Foundations of Law
- Defining law and its history
- How and why laws change
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- History and evolution of rights
- Democratic and mobility rights
Criminal Law
- Purpose and characteristics of criminal law
- Offences against people
- Investigation and arrest
Family Law
- The legal definition of family
- Rights of parents and children
International Law
- Nature and principles of international law
- International judicial bodies
Human Rights Law
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- When rights conflict
Youth and the Law
- Children's rights and YCJA principles
- Evolution of youth law
Labour Law
- Why labour law is required
- Workers' rights and collective bargaining
See the full Law, Grade 12 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
French this year
French builds through listening, speaking, and simple reading — confidence first, grammar second. In Manitoba, that's Core French, Grade 12 — 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 12 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
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Common questions
What does my child learn in Grade 12 in Manitoba?
Manitoba's official curriculum sets out Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, French for Grade 12 — 499 specific skills in total. The big themes: Mathematics covers financial mathematics and logical reasoning; Mathematics covers analysis of games and numbers and vehicle finance; Mathematics covers trigonometry and relations and functions. 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.
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Social Studies this year
Social studies widens the lens this year — history, geography, and how communities and governments work. In Manitoba, that's First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Studies, Grade 12 — 5 units, 28 skills.
Image and Identity
- Contemporary issues facing Indigenous peoples
- Three distinct peoples
- Stereotypes and media images
+ 3 more skills in this unit →A Profound Ambivalence: First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Relations with Government
- Alliance and the fur-trade relationship
- The treaties and differing understandings
- How the Indian Act controlled First Nations
+ 7 more skills in this unit →Toward a Just Society
- Colonization and residential schools
- Colonization and health
- Colonialism and the justice system
+ 5 more skills in this unit →Indigenous Peoples of the World
- Why preservation matters for Indigenous peoples
+ 1 more skill in this unit →A Festival of Learning
- Living tradition
+ 1 more skill in this unit →See the full First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Studies, Grade 12 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →