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 Mathematics, Grade 9 — 4 units, 38 skills.
Number
- Powers as repeated multiplication
- Multiplying and dividing powers
Patterns and Relations
- Generalizing a pattern with a linear equation
- One-step linear equations
- Understanding polynomials
Shape and Space
- Perpendicular from the centre bisects a chord
- Surface area of composite objects
Statistics and Probability
- Factors affecting data collection
- Designing the data investigation
See the full Mathematics, Grade 9 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 Language Arts, Grade 9 — 3 units, 40 skills.
Speaking and Listening
- Examining others' ideas to extend understanding
- Participating constructively including debate
- Demonstrating active listening and respect for others
Reading and Viewing
- Selecting texts for learning needs and special interests
- Independently accessing and selecting information
- Moving beyond initial understanding to thoughtful interpretations
Writing and Representing
- Using a range of strategies to explore, reflect, and evaluate learning
- Demonstrating facility in using a variety of forms
- Knowing which process strategies work for various writings
See the full English Language Arts, Grade 9 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 9 — 6 units, 19 skills.
Ecosystems: Energy, Matter and Interactions
- Energy: sources and transfer
Sustainable Development Design Challenge
- A community SDG design challenge
Learning and Living Sustainably
- Human impacts on Earth systems
- Change in environments: biodiversity and invasive species
See the full Science, Grade 9 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 9 — 3 units, 37 skills.
Unité 1: La musique
- Talking about preferences in music
- Reading about preferences in music
- Writing about preferences in music
Unité 2: Le petit écran – La télévision
- Identifying favourite TV shows
- Reading about TV show preferences
- Writing about TV show preferences
Unité 3: La responsabilité sociale
- Talking about situations that disturb others
- Reading about good deeds
- Writing about situations that disturb people
See the full Post-Intensive French, Grade 9 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
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Common questions
What does my child learn in Grade 9 in New Brunswick?
New Brunswick's official curriculum sets out Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, French for Grade 9 — 151 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 earth and its place in the universe and ecosystems: energy, matter and interactions. 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 widens the lens this year — history, geography, and how communities and governments work. In New Brunswick, that's Social Studies, Grade 9: Canadian Identities — 3 units, 17 skills.
Culture
- The concept of identity
+ 2 more skills in this unit →Sustainability
- Reading maps of Canada's landscape
- Settlement, place, and the First Peoples
- Why people migrate: push and pull
+ 4 more skills in this unit →Citizenship
- Citizenship, rights, and responsibilities
- Levels of government and the federal system
- Indigenous self-governance and Aboriginal rights
+ 4 more skills in this unit →See the full Social Studies, Grade 9: Canadian Identities curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →