New Brunswick · Grade 11 · 2026–27 · For parents

What your child learns in Grade 11 in New Brunswick

In Grade 11, New Brunswick students work through Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, French — 368 specific skills across 29 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.

9Subjects
29Units
368Skills

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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 Financial and Workplace Mathematics 110 — 4 units, 30 skills.

Geometry

  • Solving a single right triangle
  • Working with scale drawings
  • Modelling and drawing 3-D objects and their views
+ 6 more skills in this unit →

Number

  • Finding a strategy in a number game
  • Comparing the costs of renting, leasing, and buying
  • Analyzing an investment portfolio
+ 5 more skills in this unit →

Algebra

  • Slope and rate-of-change formulas
  • Slope as rise over run
+ 7 more skills in this unit →

Statistics

  • Creating and interpreting bar graphs
  • Creating and interpreting line graphs
+ 2 more skills in this unit →

See the full Financial and Workplace Mathematics 110 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 Foundations of Mathematics 110 — 4 units, 28 skills.

Logical Reasoning

  • Making conjectures by inductive reasoning
  • Finding a strategy in a number puzzle or game
+ 3 more skills in this unit →

Geometry

  • Proving angle relationships
  • Solving angle problems
  • Solving triangles with the sine law
+ 6 more skills in this unit →

Relations and Functions

  • Graphing a single linear inequality
  • Vertex and axis of symmetry
+ 5 more skills in this unit →

Number

  • Comparing the costs of renting, leasing and buying
  • Interest rate, rate of return, and total return
  • Building a personal budget
+ 4 more skills in this unit →

See the full Foundations of Mathematics 110 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 Pre-Calculus 110 — 3 units, 30 skills.

Algebra and Number

  • Understanding absolute value
  • Simplifying radical expressions
  • Solving radical equations
+ 6 more skills in this unit →

Trigonometry

  • Angles in standard position and reference angles
  • Trig ratios and their signs by quadrant
+ 1 more skill in this unit →

Relations and Functions

  • Factoring the general trinomial form
  • Graphing absolute value functions
  • Vertex, direction, and symmetry from vertex form
+ 15 more skills in this unit →

See the full Pre-Calculus 110 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 11 — 3 units, 42 skills.

Speaking and Listening

  • Follow-up on and extend others’ ideas in order to reflect
  • Use their awareness of the difference between formal and informal speech to interact effectively
  • Demonstrate sensitivity and respect in interaction with peers and others in both informal
+ 8 more skills in this unit →

Reading and Viewing

  • Read a wide variety of print texts recognizing elements
  • Acquire information from a variety of sources,
  • Recognize and articulate the elements of information from
+ 17 more skills in this unit →

Writing and Representing

  • Use writing and other ways of representing to - explore, interpret
  • Construct increasingly complex texts using a range of forms to serve their purposes
  • Apply a variety of writing/ representation strategies to construct increasingly complex texts
+ 8 more skills in this unit →

See the full English 11 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 Biology 11 — 3 units, 68 skills.

The Cell

  • Discrediting spontaneous generation
  • Prokaryotic vs eukaryotic cells
  • Photosynthesis vs respiration
+ 16 more skills in this unit →

Biodiversity

  • Principles of taxonomy
  • Characteristics of living things
  • Major plant groups
+ 20 more skills in this unit →

Maintaining Dynamic Equilibrium

  • The concept of homeostasis
  • Nutrition, fitness, and homeostasis
  • The urinary system
+ 23 more skills in this unit →

See the full Biology 11 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 Chemistry 11 — 2 units, 36 skills.

From Structures to Properties

  • Selecting instruments and processes
  • Naming molecular compounds
  • Forming ionic, covalent, and metallic bonds
+ 14 more skills in this unit →

Stoichiometry

  • Designing a controlled experiment
  • Error and uncertainty in measurement
  • Representing reactions and conservation of mass
+ 16 more skills in this unit →

See the full Chemistry 11 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 Physics 11 — 4 units, 51 skills.

Kinematics

  • Questions from motion problems
  • Designing a motion experiment
  • Displaying evidence (second investigation)
+ 10 more skills in this unit →

Dynamics

  • Representing forces as vectors
  • Using instruments accurately (forces)
+ 5 more skills in this unit →

Work and Energy

  • Work: force and distance
  • Longitudinal and transverse waves
  • Designing an energy experiment
+ 16 more skills in this unit →

Waves

  • Mechanical waves
  • Operational definitions (waves)
+ 10 more skills in this unit →

See the full Physics 11 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 Modern History 11 — 3 units, 46 skills.

Rights and Revolution

  • The general causes of revolutions
  • Ideas and innovations of the Industrial Revolution
+ 13 more skills in this unit →

War and Violence

  • Power, rivalries, and the causes of the First World War
  • Mechanized warfare and destruction
+ 8 more skills in this unit →

Triumph and Tragedy

  • Interwar political ideologies
  • Defining anti-Semitism
  • Cold War, containment, and the arms race
+ 18 more skills in this unit →

See the full Modern History 11 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 11 — 3 units, 37 skills.

Unité 1 : C'est injuste!

  • Reporting cases of social injustice
  • Reading about injustices and solutions
  • Writing a critique on social injustice
+ 10 more skills in this unit →

Unité 2 : Le pouvoir de la photo

  • Talking about photos you would take
  • Reading about photography and genres
  • Writing about photos you like to take
+ 11 more skills in this unit →

Unité 3 : C'est un mystère

  • Discussing police dramas and preferences
  • Reading about mysteries and enigmas
  • Writing your opinion on hypotheses
+ 7 more skills in this unit →

See the full Post-Intensive French, Grade 11 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 11 in New Brunswick?

New Brunswick's official curriculum sets out Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, French for Grade 11 — 368 specific skills in total. The big themes: Mathematics covers geometry and number; Mathematics covers logical reasoning and geometry; Mathematics covers algebra and number and trigonometry. 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?

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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.