CanadaBuilt for the Canadian curriculum · Grades 1 to 10

We teach your province’s exact curriculum. Not a generic syllabus.

Every province sets its own curriculum and its own exams. Our tutors plan from the same ministry documents your child’s school uses, from Ontario’s EQAO to Alberta’s PATs to BC’s FSA. What we teach on Tuesday matches what their teacher covers on Wednesday.

See your province’s syllabus
10 provinces + 3 territories covered EQAO · PAT · FSA · Gauss prep 1-on-1 live in your time zone
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provincial & territorial curricula we track
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subjects: Math, English, Science, Coding
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grades, planned month by month
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of plans built from official ministry documents

Your province, your syllabus

Find your province. See exactly what your child learns.

Tap your province on the map. You’ll see the official curriculum we align to, the provincial exams your child will face, and how VA Classes prepares them for each one.

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Choose your province We’ll show you the exact curriculum your child’s school follows, the provincial exams ahead of them, and how we prepare for each one.

Beyond the report card

We coach for Canada’s real contests too, from Gauss to Beaver.

Provincial exams are the floor. For students who want more, we fold contest preparation into the annual plan: real past papers, timed mocks, and the specific problem styles each contest uses.

Math contests

Gr 1–12Math Kangaroo · parents register directlyMAR
Gr 1–8Spirit of Math Contest · open to all studentsFEB
K–8Canada Jay (CJMC) · Canadian Mathematical SocietyNOV
Gr 3–9Mathematica series · Thales to Newton, one paper per gradeAPR
Gr 5–8AMC 8 · written at Canadian test centresJAN
Gr 7–8Gauss · CEMC, University of WaterlooMAY
Gr 8–10MathChallengers · school teams, BC onlyFEB
Gr 9–10Pascal & Cayley · CEMC multiple-choice papersFEB
Gr 9–10Fryer & Galois · CEMC, full written solutionsAPR
Gr 9–10CIMC · CEMC intermediate contestNOV
Gr 10COMC · CMS, the gateway to Olympiad selectionOCT

Coding & robotics

Gr 5–10Beaver Computing Challenge · CEMC, no coding neededNOV
Gr 9–10CCC Junior · CEMC, real programming in PythonFEB
Age 6–14FIRST LEGO League · team robotics seasonFALL

Science

Gr 6–8Let’s Talk Science Challenge · free national team eventAPR
Gr 7–10Regional science fairs · the road to the Canada-Wide Science FairMAR

English

Age 6–14Spelling Bee of Canada · chapter bees to the national finalFEB
Gr 4–8Kids Write 4 Kids · national story-writing challengeOCT
Gr 1–9Legion Remembrance contests · essay, poem & posterNOV

Most school-run contests (CEMC, Mathematica, CNML) are registered through your child’s school; others, like Math Kangaroo and the Spelling Bee, take direct parent registration. We tell you which applies and handle the preparation either way. This list stays current: Caribou Contests, long a household name, ended operations in August 2025, so you won’t find it here.

Compare the syllabus

Most tutoring teaches a syllabus. We teach yours.

Put any generic tutoring program next to your child’s actual school year and the gaps show up fast. Here’s the difference, side by side.

A typical tutoring app

Which syllabus is taught

One international syllabus for every student, whichever country or province they live in.

Unit & strand names

Its own course names. “We’re doing Spatial Sense this month” means nothing to the tutor.

Provincial exams

Generic worksheets. No EQAO, PAT or FSA format, timing or no-calculator sections.

Staying in sync with school

A fixed course order that drifts away from what the class is actually doing.

Moving provinces

Nothing changes. The same course continues, gaps and all.

VA Classes

Which syllabus is taught

Your province’s official ministry curriculum, the same documents your child’s school plans from.

Unit & strand names

The same strand names their teacher uses: Number, Algebra, Spatial Sense in Ontario, outcomes in Alberta, competencies in BC.

Provincial exams

Full mock exams in the real format and timing, including no-calculator sections where the real exam has them.

Staying in sync with school

A month-by-month annual plan matched to your province’s school year, adjusted to your child’s classroom pace.

Moving provinces

Free diagnostic + a bridging plan between the old and new curriculum, so nothing is missed and nothing is repeated.

Straight from the source

Planned from the same ministry documents your child’s school uses

Not a summary of them. Not “inspired by” them. Every annual plan starts from the official curriculum your province publishes:

ON · The Ontario Curriculum: Mathematics (2020) ON · The Ontario Curriculum: Language (2023) AB · Alberta Programs of Study (incl. new K–6) BC · BC’s Curriculum: Know · Do · Understand SK · The Saskatchewan Curriculum: outcomes & indicators MB · Manitoba Curriculum Frameworks QC · Quebec Education Program (QEP) Atlantic · NB · NS · PEI · NL provincial curricula
Provinces revise their curricula regularly. Ontario rewrote Math in 2020 and Language in 2023, and Alberta is rolling out a new K–6 program. We track every ministry release and refresh our plans each year, so your child is never taught from an outdated syllabus.

Why it matters

Why parents call us the curriculum specialists

Anyone can teach math. We teach your province’s math, with the same strands, the same units, and the same exams your child’s school follows.

Ministry-aligned annual plans

Every student gets a month-by-month plan built from their province’s official curriculum documents, so tutoring reinforces the classroom instead of running parallel to it. Ask us for your child’s grade plan. It’s free.

Real provincial exam prep

EQAO in Ontario. PATs in Alberta. FSA and the Grade 10 assessments in BC. In exam years, the final months of the plan are full mock exams in the real format and timing, then targeted revision based on the results.

Built for families who move

New to Canada, or switching provinces? A free diagnostic maps your child against the new curriculum, and a bridging plan closes the gaps quietly, before they show up on a report card.

Straight answers

Questions every parent asks us

See the difference a curriculum-matched tutor makes.

Book a free class and we’ll assess your child against your province’s curriculum, then show you exactly where they stand. Or message us for your child’s free annual learning plan.

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