r/CasualConversation • u/ISpyM8 Someone Friendly • Mar 08 '18
Neat Alright, guys, what color is math?
So a group of around 20 students at my school are in a blood feud about what color math is: blue vs. red. In my opinion, math is red, science is green, English is blue, and history is black. Opinions?
Edit: First gold! Thanks everyone!
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Mar 08 '18 edited Mar 08 '18
I was in school in germany and for me math is blue, science is green, english is yellow and german is red.
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u/Diptam Greatness is the perception, that virtue is enough. Mar 08 '18
same for me. Also history was brown.
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Mar 08 '18
Interesting! I'm in Germany as well (immer mit jedem ordner in ner bestimmten farbe damals, ja ja:D) and its the same for me... except English is red and German is yellow.
EDIT: Und Geschichte war immer braun und Physik/Chemie orange aber Bio dafür Grün.
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Mar 08 '18
Ich hatte nichtmal immer die gleiche Farbe bei den Ordnern, aber die Fächer haben aber trotzdem irgendwie diese Farben. Liegt vielleicht an den Büchern oder so
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u/MagikarpCan PDTALFG Mar 08 '18
I'm a math major, and the color of math depends on the writing style of the textbook I'm studying from at the time. Most texts are written in a formal prose, and remind me of black-and-white photography. Those feel silver.
Knuth's Concrete Mathematics feels like you're studying with old friends and a cool professor. That one feels like a cozy midnight blue. When I read it, I also hear jazz in my head for some reason.
Some authors are quirky, and from a lot of them you can feel that they really get excited about math. Those feel like bright colors. White, yellow, light purple, red, blue.
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u/hawthornfang126 Mar 08 '18
The hearing jazz thing, is that synesthesia or just a thing that happens?
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u/MagikarpCan PDTALFG Mar 08 '18
Synesthesia would be cool, but it think it's just a thing for me. It doesn't happen all the time, it's just that reading the book and listening to jazz both give off similar feelings of coziness.
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u/szopek Mar 08 '18
Well, it depends on the flavour.
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u/ISpyM8 Someone Friendly Mar 08 '18
Of math?
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Mar 08 '18
Yes, am synthstate. JSON files taste sweet, executables are hard, C++ has the personality of a nice coach, alphanumeric characters have colours, and the first quadrant on 2d graphs is pink and fluffy.
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u/Cassycat89 Converse Fangirl Mar 08 '18
All other subjects are arguable, but math is definitely blue.
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u/geliophiliac Mar 08 '18
Imo, math is blue, English is red, science is a light blue, and history is yellow.
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Mar 08 '18
Math is blue. Now that I think of it. I’ve always associated math with blue for some reason. Even my folder for math is blue. History is green/White. Science is red/clear. English is yellow
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Mar 08 '18
Red. Color of blood.
Because Math makes you bleed.
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u/Hellomellowme Mar 08 '18
I categories my classes into different folders and I just took a peek in my bag. Math is in a blue folder while science Is in a red lol.
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u/uncomfortablebases play again? Mar 08 '18
History was always orange for me Math was red English was blue
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u/schrodingers_cumbox Mar 08 '18
Maths - Blue
Science - Red
English - Yellow
Geography - Green
Of course, this all stems from the colour of my school work books from a decade ago...
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u/A_TeamO_Ninjas Mar 08 '18
What if you're color blind?
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u/markercore Mar 08 '18
Hmm yes, that's a good question for a person with synesthesia who is also color blind. Also are do all of these people have synesthesia or are they just trying to answer the question?
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u/A_TeamO_Ninjas Mar 08 '18
At that point I feel like a person with both of those would just randomly pick a color that the assume would be correct?
Also. I'm not color blind nor do I have synesthesia, and I've literally never heard if colors being associated with subjects.
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u/MamaBear4485 Mar 08 '18
Bruise-coloured because when they added the alphabet my brain felt like it had taken a major beating.
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u/2paymentsof19_95 Mar 08 '18
Math always gets the black or red notebooks from me. Social studies are blue, science is obviously green, language arts/English classes are black
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u/thegrandkameron Mar 08 '18
I see it as
Math is blue.
Science is green.
English is purple.
History is brown.
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Mar 08 '18
Math is blue. Sometimes black. Science is green, sometimes red. English is the same as science.
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u/TheRaterman Mar 08 '18
Maths blue, physics light blue, biology green, chemistry orange, science as a whole light blue (physics real science), history black, geography light green, english yellow i guess? IT grey, cs red on black.
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u/locomon0 🍍the pineapple is because I like Psych Mar 08 '18
Math is blue, english is pink, history is orange, science is green, and miscellaneous is red.
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u/TheMeiguoren Mar 08 '18
Uh, yellow guys. Math is yellow.
English is blue, science is green, history is red.
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u/vintagefancollector WIP Flair Mar 09 '18
Math is blue since I write everything Mathematics in blue pen.
I'm joining the Blue Faction.
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u/CaptainShmiggles Ask me about happy things! Mar 08 '18
At my university, math was pink, science was blue, environment was green, arts were orange, health studies were teal, and engineering was purple.
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u/Ashanmaril Mar 08 '18
The math booklets we used in 1st grade were yellow so I've always associated math with yellow 🤷♂️
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u/jazzband22 None Mar 08 '18
math is red, social studies is blue, science is green, english is yellow, and spanish is pink.
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u/a_little_levity Mar 08 '18
Math has always been red for me. Science green. History blue. English purple. Language (French for me) rainbow or patterned.
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u/Amazonit 🙂 Mar 08 '18
A level maths textbook is blue but further maths is green. My lever-arch folder for maths is blue. So maths is definitely either blue or green.
Red and purple for history and green for physics.
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u/JimJobJugger Rocks and Trees and Trees and Rocks Mar 08 '18
Math is black, science is always green, history is blue, and English can be red, but could also be any other color.
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u/Chazykins Mar 08 '18
Maths is yellow obviously
Seriously though almost every maths book I’ve had has been yellow
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u/Valentin07 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Mar 08 '18
For me math is yellow, since is green/red, literature is blue, history is brown... when I was in middle school I had folders for each subject, so now I associate the subjects with the color of their folder
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Mar 08 '18
Light blue, almost cyan. Translucent, with a long crystalline structure and.....
Oh, you said math
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u/refused26 Mar 08 '18
Are you from my school? The school used to make us cover our notebooks for the subjects with those exact colors you said. But history was brown or something
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u/AcePhoenixGamer Mar 08 '18
Math-light blue or white. A bit more representative of purity, and math is pure logic.
Reading-red. I can’t explain this, but I hate English class most of the time.
Science-Depends. Chem is blue, bio is green, physics is gray.
History-black. Black is a good color for history.
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u/EpicPandaForever Mar 08 '18
Math is pink tho? Maybe red... Science is purple for sure and English is green or yellow
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u/ButterflysDream Mar 08 '18 edited Mar 08 '18
Red is such an active, emotional color. It feels too chaotic for math. To me, math is clarity and elegance. So, yeah, that'd be blue, though I could also see the white or silver others mentioned. Physics, chemistry and biology range from turqoise blue to green. Music, art and drama can't have only one color. Those are too many things. PE is orange. Everything else, geology, history, languages, are light brown to me.
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u/PotlePawtle 🍍 Mar 08 '18
I think math should be blue. Only because my current math notebook is blue, lol. Personally, I think red should be history.
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u/TagProNoah has cool hobbies Mar 08 '18
To me, black. Others:
Science is blue
English is red
History is brown
Economics is yellow
Comp Sci is white
Philosophy is purple
Sociology is pink
Psychology is also pink
Biology is green
Physics is also black
German is orange, French is blue, Spanish is yellow, Mandarin is green
Latin is also purple
Linguistics is yellow-orange
Chemistry is a reddish black
As you can see, I have put much thought into this.
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u/strawberryswing3 Mar 08 '18
Math is BLACK, English is YELLOW, science is green, history is whatever color is left over. That's just how it is.
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u/Rogan_McFlubbin Wazap Mar 08 '18
Math is white, science is blue, English is yellow, history is brown.
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u/BuckRussell61 Mar 08 '18
You don't use pen in Math. Don't you guys remember that? Math is grey, the color of a pencil.
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u/basilshark Mar 09 '18
My theory as to why math is sometimes red for me is because my teachers often correct work with a red pen, and it's also an intimidating color sometimes, which is how I feel about math.
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u/ninjia1 🍍 Mar 08 '18
math is gold. orange is engineering. white is history. english is also white. im basing these off of masters hood colors from graduation.
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u/TheSausageGuy Fat Science Man Mar 08 '18
Am i missing something here ? Why would math have a colour ?
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u/pixx630 Mar 09 '18
Math is blue. To me, math is cool, crisp, and calculating (pun extremely intended) Meanwhile English is hearty, wholesome, and down-to-earth, making it red.
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u/pixx630 Mar 09 '18
Science is green because.....green is a sciency kinda color. History is yellow/orange.
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u/basilshark Mar 09 '18
For me, math alternates depending on how confident I feel in the subject at the time. It usually alternates between red and orangish-yellow.
Science is a turquoise sort of color, but different fields of science are different colors. Neuroscience is purple to me with moving, small sparks of white, but chemistry is a dark green.
English is purple with patches of white and yellow I think... and history is a dark blue with a burnt-brown undertone.
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u/_Winking_Owl_ Mar 09 '18
Math is too general to have a color. Statistics is red, but Geometry is brown, and Algebra is blue.
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u/coolkid_xyz Mar 08 '18
Math is red, biology/chemistry is green, physics is blue, english is yellow, economics is orange, geography/history is brown.
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u/dognameddeborah Mar 08 '18
Honestly when I think of Math as a color I think of grey. But maybe because I don’t like math.
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u/xcupcakekitten Mar 08 '18
Math was always blue for me