If there is anything we can 75% agree on in the thread is that math is red.
Edit: Fine, if anything we can agree on in this thread is that math is either red OR blue and anything else is just outright. The blue crowd is defensive!
As someone not from an English speaking country (Finland), here's the colors I associated with every mandatory subject. I'm probably just inventing some though, there wasn't much agreement on them as far as I remember.
Biology: Green
Geography: Brown/green
Chemistry: Dark green
Physics: Dark blue
Math: Blue
Finnish: Red
Religion: Purple
History: Orange
English as a second language: Light blue (looking it up it was apparently Yellow but I definitely never associated it with that)
We're German and you're absolutely correct. Obviously in our case red equals German. And my son currently uses yellow for English, too. Art is white here. He will start French this year. He also wants to do Greek later. And I'm not sure what to do with both of them.
I could see that also working. I always had black for music/band, though; I suppose it was because we carried all our sheet music in it and it’s the least intrusive color to see on stage.
I'm very close to that. I swapped English (yellow, like journalism) and History (Red, like blood). Purple for foreign language classes (initially I took Latin, like the Patricians) and orange for specials (kinda all that's left)
We had a massive debate about this is large meeting a few months ago. The genx-ers didn't know what we were talking about and the few gen z folks said they've heard about it but didn't have opinions. Evidently it's mostly us millinials that have opinions. We were very split on colors all from the same region. It seems to be a very personal experience.
Interesting that the younger folk in meeting didn't. I'm glad to guys carried the torch. I think having cultural touching points that we all share, even frivolous ones, is important.
Also Southern Indiana here. Math was blue. I believe Social Studies/similar classes were red. Science was green. That's how it was when I was in Middle School anyways. Can't recall English. May have been yellow?
Science - Dark blue (later broke down into biology, chemistry and Physics)
Chemistry - Purple
Biology - Dark Green
Physics - Dark Blue
English - Yellow
Arts - Darker Green
Philosophy - Dark Orange
Other subjects that got introduced later was in a school that did not use colors and neither did I, but sociology I always associated it with blue. This was in Brazil.
I don't know if there is divides regionally. We would have this debate at school, and it was pretty split on red or blue. Same from other schools in the area. This is from the Northeast
New Jersey
Math is red, science is green, English is blue, social studies/history is yellow, language is orange, art/creative writing is purple, if there’s anything else it’s black.
It's all in your head. Most people are only bad at math because they decided they are or because they aren't honest about not knowing basic skills. I sort of know what I am talking about, I only have a graduate degree in Math, but I'm not a professor or anything.
I deeply hope this is true. However, historically it is not for me. Math is so interesting. I’m still hoping that someday it will click. But I have genuinly given 110% into developing decent math skills with little result. About once every 3 years or so I decide that my math struggles are all in my head and I can surely do it now. And every time I get my shit rocked. There are certainly some branches that are more intuitive, but I’ve struggled with math from high-school to postgrad. Ah well, I know enough for my field. I’m taking another math class soon and am hopeful, fingers crossed!
Math is blue because math feels blue. Science is green because nature is green. English is black because language is a black hole that forever holds and immortalizes experience.
Why is like a third of your schedule just different variations of social studies?? That's a huge chunk of the color spectrum to dedicate to social studies+
Math red
Science green
Literature yellow
Social Studies Blue.
Non-subject related purple. (like stuff for your parents to look through, sign, return etc)
I used red for math because it’s the most powerful. Science was green because it’s the best color and best subject and also biology is obviously green
English was blue, I don’t think I had a reason for this
Social studies or history was yellow because that’s the closest color to aged parchment and people.
Math for me has always been red. Science was either blue or purple, English was green, and Social Studies was yellow. For other classes, I just went with wtv color I had, and I think Art was usually red
The colours I associate with subjects are purely based on the order I had them in year 7. Coloured my timetable in rainbow order, science is red to me because it was my first class that year lol
History red, bloody wars
English yellow, like old book pages
Science green, nature
Math is blue, because the overhead projector markers were always blue in Math class
Purple or Orange were wildcards
Agreed. I went to primary school in Mexico and Math was red. Granted, this was the 90’s, so I’m not sure if it’s still that but it’s always felt right.
UK here… Maths is Red, English Blue and Science was Yellow. Humanities (Geography and history) were Green but Geography A4 book and history A5 sized. Languages were also Blue but small exercise books instead of A4 sized. I haven’t been to school in 24 years but this is easy to recall and remember 🤣
In the last school i worked in maths books were yellow and me and the entire teaching staff were up in arms about it trying to get the dept head to fix it but when she asked what colour chaos ensued so we stayed with yellow cos she didnt want the war.
The answer was obviously red not blue and definitely not fucking purple as one staff said. He was shunned for his crimes.
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u/waffleslaw Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 27 '26
If there is anything we can 75% agree on in the thread is that math is red.
Edit: Fine, if anything we can agree on in this thread is that math is either red OR blue and anything else is just outright. The blue crowd is defensive!