Saskatchewan · Grade 12 · 2026–27 · For parents

What your child learns in Grade 12 in Saskatchewan

In Grade 12, Saskatchewan students work through Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, French — 302 specific skills across 57 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.

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302Skills

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How to read this page

Saskatchewan 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 Saskatchewan, that's Foundations of Mathematics 30 — 6 units, 23 skills.

Financial Mathematics

  • Renting, leasing, and buying large items
  • Comparing credit options
  • Analyzing investment portfolios
+ 1 more skill in this unit →

Logical Reasoning

  • If-then statements and their variations
  • Biconditionals, truth tables, and Venn logic
  • Strategies for puzzles and games

Set Theory

  • Sets, Venn diagrams, and set notation
  • Solving problems with set operations

Probability

  • Relating odds and probability
  • Mutually exclusive and non-mutually exclusive events
  • The fundamental counting principle and factorials
+ 5 more skills in this unit →

Modelling Data with Functions

  • Polynomial models of data
  • Exponential and logarithmic models of data
  • Sinusoidal models of data

Research and Presentation Project

  • Planning a data-based inquiry
  • Collecting and assessing data
  • Presenting research findings

See the full Foundations of Mathematics 30 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 Saskatchewan, that's Pre-Calculus 30 — 3 units, 29 skills.

Trigonometry

  • Standard position, degrees, and radians
  • The unit circle and the six ratios
  • Graphing sine, cosine, and tangent
+ 8 more skills in this unit →

Functions and Transformations

  • Combining functions arithmetically
  • Translations and stretches of functions
  • Reflecting functions
+ 11 more skills in this unit →

Permutations, Combinations, and the Binomial Theorem

  • The fundamental counting principle
  • Combinations
+ 2 more skills in this unit →

See the full Pre-Calculus 30 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 Saskatchewan, that's Workplace and Apprenticeship Mathematics 30 — 3 units, 23 skills.

Reasoning and Measurement

  • Strategies to solve puzzles and win games
  • Precision and accuracy
  • Solving triangles with the sine and cosine laws
+ 6 more skills in this unit →

Financial and Business Mathematics

  • Buying a vehicle, with and without credit
  • Expenses, sales, and profit or loss
+ 2 more skills in this unit →

Linear Relations and Statistics

  • Representing linear relations
  • Mean, median, and mode
  • Percentiles and percentile rank
+ 7 more skills in this unit →

See the full Workplace and Apprenticeship Mathematics 30 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 Saskatchewan, that's Calculus 30 — 3 units, 19 skills.

Functions and Limits

  • Classifying and analyzing functions
  • Extending factoring
  • The meaning of a limit
+ 4 more skills in this unit →

Differentiation

  • The derivative from first principles
  • First-derivative analysis
  • Optimization
+ 6 more skills in this unit →

Integration

  • Indefinite integrals by sight and substitution
  • The FTC and definite integrals
+ 1 more skill in this unit →

See the full Calculus 30 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 Saskatchewan, that's English Language Arts A30 / B30 — 6 units, 28 skills.

Comprehend and Respond — Canadian Voices (Semester A)

  • Responding to Canadian identity texts (Define the Individual)
+ 5 more skills in this unit →

Compose and Create — Canadian Focus (Semester A)

  • Composing Canadian identity texts (Define the Individual)
+ 5 more skills in this unit →

Assess and Reflect (Semester A)

  • Assessing own work for precision, clarity, and artistry
+ 1 more skill in this unit →

Comprehend and Respond — World Voices (Semester B)

  • Responding to world identity texts (Sense of Self)
+ 5 more skills in this unit →

Compose and Create — Global Focus (Semester B)

  • Composing world identity texts (Sense of Self)
+ 5 more skills in this unit →

Assess and Reflect (Semester B)

  • Assessing own and others' work for precision, clarity, and artistry
+ 1 more skill in this unit →

See the full English Language Arts A30 / B30 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →

Science this year

Science gets more structured this year — real investigations, real explanations, real vocabulary. In Saskatchewan, that's Biology 30 — 4 units, 20 skills.

Student-Directed Study

  • Designing a scientific investigation
  • Carrying out and analysing the experiment
  • Portfolio and presentation

Life and Evolution

  • How definitions of life change
  • Principles and processes of evolution
+ 2 more skills in this unit →

Organization of Life

  • Energy synthesis and cell molecules
  • Comparing anatomy and reproductive strategies
  • Taxonomy and naming conventions
+ 3 more skills in this unit →

Genetics and Biotechnology

  • Patterns of inheritance
  • DNA structure, replication, and protein synthesis
  • Biotechnology applications
+ 4 more skills in this unit →

See the full Biology 30 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →

Science this year

Science gets more structured this year — real investigations, real explanations, real vocabulary. In Saskatchewan, that's Chemistry 30 — 4 units, 26 skills.

Student-Directed Study

  • Designing a scientific investigation
  • Carrying out and analysing the experiment
  • Portfolio and presentation

Chemical Bonding and Materials Science

  • The atomic model and valence electrons
  • Intermolecular and intramolecular forces
  • Carbon's diversity and organic models
+ 8 more skills in this unit →

Chemical Equilibria

  • The nature of equilibrium
  • Solubility and the common ion effect
  • Acid-base theories and strength
+ 5 more skills in this unit →

Electrochemistry

  • Redox reactions and balancing
  • Redox in nature and industry
+ 2 more skills in this unit →

See the full Chemistry 30 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →

Science this year

Science gets more structured this year — real investigations, real explanations, real vocabulary. In Saskatchewan, that's Physics 30 — 5 units, 25 skills.

Student-Directed Study

  • Designing the investigation
+ 2 more skills in this unit →

Modern Physics

  • Scales of physics: Newtonian, quantum, and relativistic
  • Types of radiation and radioactive decay
+ 5 more skills in this unit →

Forces and Motion

  • Uniform and uniformly accelerated motion
  • Newton's laws and force problems
+ 4 more skills in this unit →

Conservation Laws

  • Work, energy, and conservation of energy
  • Impulse and momentum
+ 2 more skills in this unit →

Fields

  • The field concept and gravitational fields
  • Electric fields and Coulomb's law
+ 3 more skills in this unit →

See the full Physics 30 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →

Science this year

Science gets more structured this year — real investigations, real explanations, real vocabulary. In Saskatchewan, that's Earth Science 30 — 5 units, 26 skills.

Career Exploration

  • Earth-science career paths and qualifications

Student-Directed Study

  • Designing the investigation
+ 2 more skills in this unit →

Foundations of Earth Science

  • Earth's spheres and their interactions
  • Evidence for continental drift and plate tectonics
  • The fossil record and the geologic time scale
+ 5 more skills in this unit →

Lithosphere

  • Minerals and their identification
  • Locating mineral and fossil-fuel resources
  • Landforms and the processes that shape them
+ 5 more skills in this unit →

Atmosphere and Hydrosphere

  • Composition and history of the atmosphere
  • Groundwater and its movement
+ 4 more skills in this unit →

See the full Earth Science 30 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 Saskatchewan, that's Law 30 — 5 units, 18 skills.

Foundations of Law

  • The purpose and function of law
  • The machinery of legal change
  • The Charter's structure and famous clauses
+ 3 more skills in this unit →

Criminal Law

  • Elements of a crime, offence types, and defences
  • Sentencing goals, options, and alternatives
  • The justice system in the community
+ 2 more skills in this unit →

Civil Law

  • Civil law basics, torts, and remedies
  • The legal life of family relationships
  • The civil rules of ordinary life
+ 1 more skill in this unit →

Law in Canada Today

  • Why youth are treated differently
  • Investigating live legal issues

Student-Directed Inquiry

  • Designing and carrying out a legal inquiry

See the full Law 30 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 Saskatchewan, that's History 30: Canadian Studies — 5 units, 27 skills.

Contact and the Change of Worldviews

  • How Worldviews Organize a Society
+ 5 more skills in this unit →

Decision Making and Confederation

  • Interest Groups and Decision Making
+ 4 more skills in this unit →

Expansion and the Social Contract

  • Other Nations' Actions and Canadian Well-Being
+ 4 more skills in this unit →

The Canadian State and Its Paradigm

  • Sovereignty and the Nation-State
+ 4 more skills in this unit →

Contemporary Challenges

  • New Relationships in a Diverse Canada
+ 5 more skills in this unit →

See the full History 30: Canadian Studies 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 Saskatchewan, that's Economics 30 — 4 units, 29 skills.

The Economic Setting

  • The Economic Setting
  • Business Organization
  • Money and Banking
+ 7 more skills in this unit →

The Economy of Saskatchewan

  • Overview of the Saskatchewan Economy
  • Forestry in Saskatchewan
  • Industry in Saskatchewan
+ 5 more skills in this unit →

The Economy of Canada

  • Overview of the Canadian Economy
  • Labour and Labour Organization
  • Economic Growth in Canada
+ 4 more skills in this unit →

The International Economy and Canada

  • Reasons for and Nature of Canadian Trade
+ 3 more skills in this unit →

See the full Economics 30 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →

French this year

French builds through listening, speaking, and simple reading — confidence first, grammar second. In Saskatchewan, that's Core French 30 — 4 units, 9 skills.

Communication Skills

  • Making meaning from spoken French (independently)
  • Reading multi-paragraph French texts (independently)
+ 2 more skills in this unit →

Language Knowledge

  • French language knowledge when listening and reading
+ 1 more skill in this unit →

General Language Strategies

  • Selecting and applying French learning strategies (independently)

Culture

  • Francophone cultures around the world
+ 1 more skill in this unit →

See the full Core French 30 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.
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Common questions

What does my child learn in Grade 12 in Saskatchewan?

Saskatchewan's official curriculum sets out Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, French for Grade 12 — 302 specific skills in total. The big themes: Mathematics covers financial mathematics and logical reasoning; Mathematics covers trigonometry and functions and transformations; Mathematics covers reasoning and measurement and financial and business mathematics. The full list is on this page.

Is this the official Saskatchewan curriculum?

It's built from Saskatchewan'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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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.