New Brunswick · Grade 10 · 2026–27 · For parents

What your child learns in Grade 10 in New Brunswick

In Grade 10, New Brunswick students work through Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, French — 174 specific skills across 22 units, set by the province's official curriculum. This page lists them all in plain words, subject by subject, so you know exactly what "how was school?" is actually covering this year.

6Subjects
22Units
174Skills

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How to read this page

New Brunswick 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 New Brunswick, that's Geometry, Measurement and Finance 10 — 4 units, 31 skills.

Algebra

  • Perimeter, area, volume and capacity formulas
+ 3 more skills in this unit →

Number

  • Unit pricing and currency exchange
  • Wages, salary and contracts
  • Banking accounts and transaction services
+ 7 more skills in this unit →

Geometry

  • Analyzing spatial puzzles and games
  • Recognizing and verifying the Pythagorean theorem
  • Similarity and trig ratios in right triangles
+ 6 more skills in this unit →

Measurement

  • SI units and their relationships
  • Imperial units and their relationships
  • Solving linear measurement problems
+ 5 more skills in this unit →

See the full Geometry, Measurement and Finance 10 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 New Brunswick, that's Number, Relations and Functions 10 — 2 units, 28 skills.

Algebra and Number

  • Prime factors, GCF and LCM
  • Identifying and simplifying irrational numbers
  • Powers with integral exponents
+ 7 more skills in this unit →

Relations and Functions

  • Interpreting graphs and data
  • Distinguishing relations and functions
  • Slope as rise over run and rate of change
+ 15 more skills in this unit →

See the full Number, Relations and Functions 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 New Brunswick, that's English 10 — 3 units, 40 skills.

Speaking and Listening

  • Examine the ideas of others in discussion and presentation to clarify and extend their own
  • Participate in a range of speaking situations,
  • Demonstrate active listening and respect for the needs,
+ 8 more skills in this unit →

Reading and Viewing

  • Read from a wide variety of print texts, which include
  • Research, in systematic ways, specific information from a
  • Articulate personal responses to text with a supported point of view
+ 15 more skills in this unit →

Writing and Representing

  • Use writing and other ways of representing to - extend ideas and experiences - reflect
  • Demonstrate skills in constructing a range of texts for a
  • Demonstrate awareness of what writing/representation
+ 8 more skills in this unit →

See the full English 10 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →

Science this year

Science gets more structured this year — real investigations, real explanations, real vocabulary. In New Brunswick, that's Science, Grade 10 — 6 units, 23 skills.

Power, Work & Energy

  • Power, work, and energy
+ 2 more skills in this unit →

Electricity and Electrification

  • Static electricity and charge
+ 3 more skills in this unit →

Nuclear Technology

  • Physical, chemical, and nuclear changes
+ 3 more skills in this unit →

Chemistry Foundations

  • Classifying matter
+ 4 more skills in this unit →

Sustainable Development Design Challenge

  • A community SDG design challenge

Learning and Living Sustainably

  • Use of chemicals: causes, consequences, solutions
  • Chemistry of the hydrosphere: pH and electrolytes
+ 4 more skills in this unit →

See the full Science, Grade 10 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 New Brunswick, that's Civics 10 — 4 units, 11 skills.

Civic Engagement

  • The four domains of civic engagement
+ 2 more skills in this unit →

Belonging

  • Belonging across history, culture, and law
+ 2 more skills in this unit →

Decision-Making and Representation

  • Values behind democratic decisions
+ 2 more skills in this unit →

Human Rights

  • Human rights legislation
+ 1 more skill in this unit →

See the full Civics 10 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →

French this year

French builds through listening, speaking, and simple reading — confidence first, grammar second. In New Brunswick, that's Post-Intensive French, Grade 10 — 3 units, 41 skills.

Unité 1: Le grand écran – Le cinéma

  • Talking about favourite films
  • Reading about films
  • Writing about favourite films
+ 14 more skills in this unit →

Unité 2: L’impact des TIC dans la vie quotidienne

  • Providing opinions on the use of IT (speaking)
  • Reading about technology's forms and uses
  • Providing opinions on the use of IT (writing)
+ 6 more skills in this unit →

Unité 3: Les relations personnelles chez les ados

  • Communicating in friendly situations
  • Reading about friendly interactions
  • Writing about friendly situations
+ 12 more skills in this unit →

See the full Post-Intensive French, Grade 10 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →

Three ways parents use this list

At report-card timeMatch the teacher's comments to the units above — "working on number sense" stops being a mystery phrase.
At parent-teacher nightPick one unit per subject and ask "how is my child doing with this?" — specific questions get specific answers.
When they're stuckFind the exact skill on this page, open it in MapleMind, and the tutor teaches just that — step by step, as many times as it takes.

Common questions

What does my child learn in Grade 10 in New Brunswick?

New Brunswick's official curriculum sets out Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, French for Grade 10 — 174 specific skills in total. The big themes: Mathematics covers algebra and number; Mathematics covers algebra and number and relations and functions; English Language Arts covers speaking and listening and reading and viewing. The full list is on this page.

Is this the official New Brunswick curriculum?

It's built from New Brunswick'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.

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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.