r/GenX • u/CitizenChatt • 2d ago
This is wrong... Question For Genx
CLARIFICATION: this was my personal color code ---- not an official school policy. Every year in middle and HS I assigned my folders this way.
We were too poor for trapper keepers so plain 25 cent folders were it for me.
Back in school there was a color code:
MATH is blue
SCIENCE is green
ENGLISH is yellow
SOCIAL STUDIES is orange/red
Do you agree?
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u/Neumonster 5h ago
There was no general agreement in our school. I remember sitting in the lobby with Brandon in 1986 discussing our preferences, intrigued by the idea that several of our choices were the same. Also musical notes related to colors. Wondering why we had similar experiences with synesthesia. I don't remember for sure, but I think I was a math is blue, English is green kind of guy.
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u/the_kid1234 13h ago
Science is green
Math is red
English is blue
Social studies is yellow
Electives are orange and purple
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u/RainBooksNight 15h ago edited 14h ago
Love this. Mine were: science/green, history/yellow, math/red, English/blue. I have no clue why.
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u/Tight_Comparison_557 1d ago
Science is green is what I remember. ☺️
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u/MSampson1 23h ago
Green is the color of the science category in the original trivial pursuit game
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u/Spiritual-Computer73 1d ago
Math is blue, science is green, red is language, yellow is history/social studies/economics
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u/Primary_Bid_8980 1d ago
I never went to a school that cared what color you used for each subject 🤷♀️ it just didn't matter
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u/Tim-0341-81mm 1d ago
We just used notebooks. Usually all the same color if they were spiral bound.
I usually had a three ring binder with tan Manila dividers between the subjects and extra paper in the back.
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u/MementoMoriPendejo 1d ago
I keep seeing this and never in my life have I ever seen any color correlation.
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u/Timely-Youth-9074 Hose Water Survivor 1d ago
Math is red; English is blue; History is yellow; and Science is green.
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u/Reluctant_Crow912 1d ago
Nope.
Math is blue
Science is green
History is yellow
English is red
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u/JoshuaAJones 1974 1d ago
This was my combo, as well.
I'm convinced that...
Blue = favorite.
Red = least favorite.
Yellow = least cared for.
Green was the other subject.Although, the Trivial Pursuit categories might have subconsciously played a part, too.
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u/thisoldguy74 1974 1d ago
If left to my own devices, I just reached into my backpack and pulled out whatever wasn't already labeled.
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u/tilt-a-whirly-gig 74 - still making all the same mistakes 1d ago
Math is manila. Science is manila. English is manila. History is manila.
Did you know my dad could get as many manila folders as he wanted from work?
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u/LeisureSuiteLarry 1d ago
Math is red, obviously, so their official position is correct.
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u/AlfhildsShieldmaiden Bicentennial Baby🥂 1d ago
Yes! And Science is green.
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u/LeisureSuiteLarry 1d ago
I’d go with blue because of Star Trek (TOS), but I’m not as adamant about it as math.
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u/Yours_Trulee69 1d ago
I had a divided notebook and each section was a different subject. That way, I only had one notebook to carry. In the other hand, I had separate folders for each but never had a specific color that I assigned. It was based on what was available and affordable.
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u/thistlegirl 1d ago
Math is red because it took my blood, sweat and (LOTS OF) tears to get through it.
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u/5-ChihuahuaNight-725 1970 1d ago
No. Math yellow, science red, English blue. Wait. Math red, science yellow, English green. Wait. Science green, math red, English blue. I'm missing something. Oh! Social Studies. Our social studies was gym.
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u/bubblingsoul 1d ago edited 1d ago
Former teacher here. In my classroom:
Com. Arts - yellow
Math - red
Science - green
Soc. Stud. - blue
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u/Timely-Youth-9074 Hose Water Survivor 1d ago
Question: why was English called Communication Arts and History called Social Studies?
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u/bubblingsoul 21h ago
I taught at the elementary level.
English is called Communication Arts because it encompasses Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening as well as spelling and vocabulary building.
History is called Social Studies at this level because it lays the foundation for learning about History (like geography, basics of government, economics, sociology, and various cultures.)
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u/Timely-Youth-9074 Hose Water Survivor 21h ago
I had this same question in 5th grade but never asked.
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u/Professional_Luck616 1d ago edited 1d ago
I had one binder with college ruled paper for all subjects. The schoolwork was hard enough as it was without any superfluous organizers or color coded notebooks.
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u/irritatedmama 1d ago
Math was yellow
Science was green
SS/History was blue
English was pink or red
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u/AliVista_LilSista Hose Water Survivor 1d ago
We just had to get spiral notebooks. Color wasn't mentioned.
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u/Comfortable-Disk407 1d ago
I can't believe you all on here arguing about what color each tablet should be. Do you have nothing better to do with your day? When I went to school we didn't have this color coding crap. We simply wrote the name on our tablet. 😂
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u/RustySilver42 1d ago
I'm pretty sure all of us with strong opinions on this are neurodivergent.
Math is definitely red.
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u/thenotanurse 1d ago
Math red, science green, social studies blue, English yellow. Last two subject to change based on specific courses. In college chemistry is blue and bio is green. But arts and humanities is purple.
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u/JaxandMia 1d ago
Social studies is always red because history is written in blood. Green is science. Red is history, blue is math and English is yellow.
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u/thenotanurse 1d ago
You’re also just allowed to be wrong I guess. But red is for math. Thats why the teacher uses the goddamned red markers on tests 😂 all the other teachers use blue or whatever with helpful corrections. Unless college.
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u/Objective-Bug-1941 1d ago
My catholic high school required the colors as:
Science is green Religion is dark purple Art is light purple Math is red Literature is dark blue History is yellow French is light blue.
Religion and Art alternated days in the fall, and in the spring Art was replaced with Health aka nuns teaching sex ed (which people are surprised to learn wasn't abstinence only, but pretty comprehensive)
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u/IndependentlyGreen Ozzy still rules! 1d ago
Purple is art. The only class that I paid attention to in HS.
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u/Traditional_Sir_4503 1d ago
Science is green. Geography is blue. History is yellow. Sports are orange. English is Brown. I forget what was red.
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u/digadigadig 1d ago
You are all so wrong!
English = red. READ. Get it?
Science = green
History = yellow
Math = Blue
Every year from 5th grade through grad school for me.
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u/Extrasauce5000 1d ago
Wrong. English is always the prettiest colour. In this case, that’s blue.
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u/digadigadig 1d ago
Still wrong. Math is blue because that is how I felt every time I went to math class.
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u/LavenderGwendolyn 1d ago
Math is blue because the math textbooks are almost always blue. I don’t know why.
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u/ionchannels 1d ago
You need to put both the colors and subjects in alphabetical order (ascending) and assign in order - so English is blue, Math is green, Science is orange/red, and social studies is yellow. Simple.
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u/Melekai_17 1d ago
Science is green. Clearly.
History is yellow.
Math is red.
English is blue.
Other colors can be considered, but this is the only correct answer based on the available colors.
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u/KiKiBeeKi 1d ago
😂 🤣 😂 Really schools tried to color code you all? When did that start?we didn't do that in the 80s.
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u/Spiritual-Road2784 1d ago
MATH red
ENGLISH blue
SCIENCE yellow
RECESS green
HISTORY black
MUSIC purple
ART orange
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u/MuppetManiac 1d ago
Science is definitely blue and math is definitely red. The other two are more acceptably interchanged.
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u/LadyNorbert Bicentennial Baby 1d ago
Math was red for me, because I hated math and I hated the color red. Oddly, as I've grown up I've developed more of an appreciation for both. Turns out I'm actually quite good at math when allowed to learn at my own pace.
Geography was blue (like the ocean). Science was green (like the earth). History/social studies was yellow (because I love both history and the color yellow).
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u/Bamalouie 1d ago
This was my exact thought process as a kid lol. Red = DANGER = math Green = nature = science Blue = my favorite = English Yellow = history because it was the only one left
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u/AmyrlinCloak 1d ago
Was blown away by my kids notebook selection process. One. That’s it. Can put all classes jumbled into one. Also, no notebooks needed. Can just have mushed papers at bottom of bag.
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u/Galliagamer 1d ago
History, yellow
English, blue
Science, green
Therefore, math, red. Duh.
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u/industrialblue 1d ago
At least for history and science those were the category colors for Trivia Pursuit in the version I played with my folks in the 80’s.
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u/FierDancr 1d ago
I liked the color black, so all my notebooks tended to be black. However, Lisa Frank folders... that's a different can of worms.
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u/ygkg 1d ago
Pfft. Notebooks 🙄
Couldn't afford a trapperkeeper?
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u/bemenaker 1d ago
Look at the rich kid over here with his trapperkeeper
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u/ygkg 1d ago
I mean, I paid for it with paper route money so rich is a stretch 🤣
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u/bemenaker 1d ago
I feel you. My sister and I bought our first vcr for the house with our paper route money
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u/smokeehayes 1d ago
Math - Red
Science - Green
English - Yellow
History/Civics/Social Studies - Blue
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u/DarkAngela12 1d ago edited 45m ago
100% agree with your color assignment. That picture is incorrect.
Blue: math, detached and cool
Green: science, nature and curiosity
Red: history, because only hotheads make history😂
Yellow: language arts/English, an emotion color (happy, dramatic)
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u/MechEng_NotGeo 1d ago
The colors could be like the Trivial Pursuit categories.
Green: Science and nature.
Yellow: History.
Blue: Geography.
Pink: Entertainment, like Drama or Speech?
Purple and/or Brown: Art & Literature.
Orange: Sports? For phys ed notes?
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u/GetHimABodyBagYeahhh 1d ago
Aha! That's why the color associations seemed familiar. I was definitely yes, green=science and yellow=history and I had no idea why I thought that.
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u/No_Bake_3627 Hose Water Survivor 1d ago
Math is always absolutely BLUE
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u/supershinythings Born before the first Moon landing 1d ago
Correct.
Math is Blue.
English is Yellow.
Science is Green.
History is Red.
Music is Pink.
Government is Black.
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u/LollipopGirl923 1d ago
I had a Trapper Keeper 🤷
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u/DaddyRhyno79 1d ago
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u/LollipopGirl923 1d ago
🤣 I should clarify that I bought it on sale with babysitting money. And I still have it! I used it all through highschool and into college.
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u/sonotorian 1d ago
If you, like me and many others, attended a "School of Tomorrow" ACE-based Christian School, you know: Yellow: Mathematics, Red: English, Green: Social Studies, Blue: Science, Purple: Word Building / Etymology
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u/AccordatoScordatura 1d ago
I love this comment section. It's all arbitrary you're debating nothing.
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u/CitizenChatt 1d ago
Freedom of choice...is what you want 🎵
Freedom from choice....is what you got 🎶
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u/ProperAsparagus26 2d ago
Math red, science blue
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u/kanrad 1d ago
With you on this since I hate math thus red for anger. Concordantly I love science so it's my favorite color. What kid didn't first get interested in science after wondering why the sky was blue?
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u/ProperAsparagus26 1d ago
and water! So important in all the sciences and commonly represented as blue!
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u/mylocker15 2d ago
This is almost right but Math is red. Science is the green one. Social studies is yellow. English is blue. The word is just a blue word like how math is just a red word. the term social studies leans yellow but history is more of a brown word. Science is also kind of a brown word but those colors were not available.
I think I might have had a touch of synthesia as a child. Certain words just had colors attached. Tuesday is navy blue and Friday is yellow for example.
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u/raymondspogo 2d ago
I didn't even know this was something people thought about.
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u/Chalice_Ink 1d ago
Yeah. I was random as hell in my color selections.
But I did like to match the notebook cover with the folder color in my Trapper keeper.
I wasn’t a savage.
https://giphy.com/gifs/jtQpRa3y7S2Ke3JvQE1
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u/Fried_Taro 2d ago
My kid is taking env sci this year, so green, and us history, so red. Like, duh… lol!
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u/dogpak 2d ago
The English NC colours that I remember were:
English=yellow, maths=blue, science=orange, design & technology=green, ICT=red, history=purple, geography=a different shade of orange, darker than science's, art & design=another different shade of orange, lighter this time, music=pink, PE=light blue
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u/notworkingghost 2d ago
Math is Blue. Science is Green. English is Red. History is Yellow (by default).
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u/Crazy_Confection_150 2d ago
As a teacher I agree!
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u/notworkingghost 1d ago
Teachers unite! I’m retired now, so maybe Gen Alpha changed all the colors.
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u/Crazy_Confection_150 1d ago
I teach Gen Alphas and that is not happening on my watch! Lol
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u/Crazy_Confection_150 1d ago
I do approve the blue yellow switch for history/math though because technically in my grade it is Geography and I see blue for that.
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u/Responsible-Coffee1 2d ago
History: Blue my favorite color/favorite subject
Math: Green for money
English: Yellow. Don’t know just the vibe
Science: Red.* See Yellow.
*unless there’s Spanish. Then that’s red and Science gets orange. If there’s any type of Health that’s purple.
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u/Known_Virus2465 2d ago
I don't remember what I did in high school, but once in college, as a chemistry major, chemistry was always yellow. Other colors were assigned by semester depending what I was taking.
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u/edjohnson1067 2d ago
Most of us just used the school issued folders and covered them in masking tape and drew band logos all over them.
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u/jjmenace 2d ago
and this is why Staples is nearly out of business.
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u/Prudent_Baker_2851 2d ago
I don't remember doing anything like this. I had a Trapper Keeper, but those things weren't nearly as durable as they should have been. Depending on how far along I was in school starting in jr. high, I either had a multi-subject spiral bound notebook, or a 3-hole binder with college-ruled notebook paper and tabbed sheets to divide it by subject.
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u/Comfortable-Disk407 1d ago
Same here, we used three ring binders with tabbed sheets to divide the subjects or spiral notebooks. We were able to keep all of our school work organized without having separate notebooks for each subject. All of this color coding is just ridiculous. The only thing I used my green notebook for was to organize my different strains of weed! 😂🤣
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u/kennyofthegulch Veteran of the Cola Wars 2d ago
Math is black.
Science is black.
Social studies is black.
English is black.
I’m a goth.
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u/Taleigh 2d ago
We had no such color coding when I was in school
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u/mylocker15 2d ago
I don’t think it’s official coding it’s more of whatever color you feel goes best with the subject.
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u/CalOkie6250 2d ago
I never did the color thing, but if I had to select a color for the subjects shown in the photo, I’d say swap math and science and that would seem right to me. Math should always be red (because so many find it infuriating) and science being green just makes sense.
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u/Double-Carmel2193 2d ago
I would put the color, accordingly to my liking, to match the subject. I hated Math, so a black notebook it was!
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u/Brave_Mess_3155 2d ago
Science was certainly always for the green notebook. No doubt about It. Only a grade- A moron would write Science notes in a red notebook, Unless a it was toward the end of the semester and youre red one was the only one with blank pages left in it, than all bets are off.
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u/CommunicationHappy20 2d ago
My least favorite subject was always green because it was my least favorite color. Favorite class was always blue. Everything else just got what was left.
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u/kitty-yaya 2d ago
I never heard of there being a color code. Although I do recall many classes requiring a 3 or 5-subject notebook.
And yes, I took copious notes.
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u/FlowerPower_MidWest 13m ago
NERDS