Green because I had a wonderful Earth Science teacher.
Blue for Math and Pink for English/Language arts due to experiences I was going through as a teenager, those colors in a way represent how I felt about those classes and what they meant to me.
Gray for Social Studies/History because the whole thing was rather bland and I could’ve learned just as much from the hours I spent browsing wikipedia after school
I used to decorate my books with stickers and then put a clear adhesive covering on them, so I never stuck to a colour coding system, but in my head, science is green, maths is red, English is blue and social sciences are purple.
I switched what colors were what subject every year! I don’t remember too well but; Science tended to be green or yellow, Math blue or red, English blue or green, and purple was spread pretty evenly through the years. There were definitely also a lot of instances where I would have the folder one color and the notebook another
Fun poll! I’m surprised brown is winning for history, it’s super ingrained in my mind that history/social studies is associated with yellow. Cool to see what others think though!
Surely I can’t be the only one who thinks math is yellow. Judy clocks are yellow, the place value blocks I used in 1st grade were yellow, many of my middle school math books were yellow.
It’s really fascinating how we congregate around similar coloring schemes! Red is definitely Math for me, while Science is usually always blue. The others are a bit more nebulous. I wonder why that is? I did have some public/private schooling later in my life, but I was mostly homeschooled, so I don’t know where my associations come from.
Math, especially high school onward I associate with blue as it is a subject that makes me panic as if I were in the ocean with a deflating life jacket. I needed help, but no one cared or wanted to help. I suffered greatly for it
English/Language arts are pink because it was my safe haven from so much that was wrong at the time. My creativity was nurtured and encouraged by a wonderful teacher. For that class period everything was okay, and I felt okay
If I were to try to reverse-engineer my child-self’s thought process, when picking duotangs for each subject at the beginning of the year, I probably deliberately picked the colours for math & science, then gave language arts & social studies whatever was left over (usually yellow) because I wasn’t much interested in the latter two as a child.
I guess this implies as a child I liked the colours red and green (and sometimes blue; I remember my math duotang was blue once too). RGB do seem to be statistically likely favourite colours, for reasons I do not know.
This does bring up the possibility that the results could be biased if we, the group being sampled, have on average a preference towards certain school subjects different from the general population.
I think most of mine are based on the capital first letter. M is always red (math). E and L are yellow (English, Language) S is blue (science). Social studies is not blue though bc science already took blue and Government is green so since social studies covers gov topics it is also green. Probably was the last assigned color bc it was my least favorite subject. Not that I dislike green, just that I gave the others colors first.
Red yellow green and blue being the choices of colors because most school folders were hese colors ^^
I would also classify Art and Music as red, but we never really had folders for these classes. Similarly Library would be yellow and Technology blue. Gym doesn’t deserve a color
Although not my chosen colors I would also accept red for English/language and green for science. Green for science makes sense since plants and green and green energy etc. English/language must be a warm color, it would be very strange as blue. History can be red if called history and not social studies. Social studies can be blue since it’s an S word.
