Grade 11

What your teen learns in grade 11

• Grade 11 mathGrade 11 math is about functions: how one quantity depends on another, and how a graph moves when the equation changes. Exponential growth, trigonometry and finance build on that. Here is what the year covers, where students usually get stuck, and one way to help.
• Grade 11 scienceIn grade 11, science splits into biology, chemistry and physics, and each gets more mathematical. Chemistry in particular runs on one idea, the mole. Here is what the year covers, where students usually get stuck, and one way to help.
• Grade 11 EnglishGrade 11 English expects independent analysis: longer and harder texts, essays that argue an interpretation, and research that uses sources well. Here is what the year covers, where students usually lose marks, and one way to help.