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
Numbers stop being abstract this year — they become things your child can count, compare, build, and explain. In New Brunswick, that's Mathematics, Grade 3 — 4 units, 40 skills.
Number
- Skip-counting by 5s, 10s, and 100s
- Adding two 2-digit numbers mentally
- Multiplication as equal groups and arrays
Patterns and Relations
- Increasing patterns
- Missing-number addition equations
Shape and Space
- Relating time to activities
- Choosing referents for cm and m
- Perimeter of regular shapes
Statistics and Probability
- Organizing data with tallies and line plots
See the full Mathematics, Grade 3 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
English Language Arts this year
Reading and writing grow fast at this age — this is the year the letters turn into stories. In New Brunswick, that's English Language Arts, Grade 3 — 3 units, 44 skills.
Speaking and Listening
- Sharing and discussing thoughts and experiences
- Participating in group discussion
- Using courtesies of conversation
Reading and Viewing
- Selecting texts for interests and needs
- Word-solving and self-correcting strategies
- Describing your own reading process
Writing and Other Ways of Representing
- Writing to explore ideas and express feelings
- Creating texts in a variety of forms
- Prewriting and drafting strategies
See the full English Language Arts, Grade 3 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Science this year
Science at this age is guided curiosity — observing, sorting, asking why, and testing ideas hands-on. In New Brunswick, that's Science, Grade 3 — 4 units, 14 skills.
See the full Science, Grade 3 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
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Common questions
What does my child learn in Grade 3 in New Brunswick?
New Brunswick's official curriculum sets out Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies for Grade 3 — 117 specific skills in total. The big themes: Mathematics covers number and patterns and relations; English Language Arts covers speaking and listening and reading and viewing; Science covers weather and climate and habitats. 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.
Social Studies this year
Social studies starts close to home — family, community, and how people live together. In New Brunswick, that's Social Studies, Grade 3 — 3 units, 19 skills.
Place
- Locating our province in relation to other places
- Landforms and bodies of water
- Urban and rural communities
+ 3 more skills in this unit →Peoples
- Identifying the diverse peoples of our province
- Expressing culture beyond food and fashion
- Working together and its benefits
+ 4 more skills in this unit →Citizenship
- Our provincial government
- Active citizens and their characteristics
- Majority vote and consensus
+ 3 more skills in this unit →See the full Social Studies, Grade 3 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →