What Color Notebook Should Be Used for Each Subject?

What Color Notebook Should Be Used for Each Subject?

Are you looking for a way to connect with your kid on another level of OCD?  Does your kid still use physical notebooks? If so, here you go:

The old meme about which COLOR notebook is best for each subject is going viral again.  You know, like whether math should be given a red notebook . . . or a blue one, or a yellow one, and so on.

The classic question involves the subjects Math, Science, English, and History . . . and the colors were blue, red, yellow, and green.  And this can go for notebooks, binder tabs, or Trapper Keeper folders.  (Long live the ’90s!)

The most popular responses seem to be:  Math is red . . . Science is green . . . English is blue . . . and History is yellow.  But there was no consensus.  Here are some amusing responses:

1.  “Blue is Math, because the textbooks were blue and graph paper . . . Red is English for the pun ‘read’  (???) . . . Science is Green because most of the early science classes are biology and plants . . . and History is Yellow.”

2.  “Math is Red for bricks, structure, and building . . . Science is Blue, because it’s a sterile color for experiments . . . History is Green for maps . . . and English is Yellow for the color of old, aging paper.”

3.  “I did easiest to hardest . . . descending on the ‘ROYGBIV’ scale.”

4.  “[I’d] actually do them by period, in [rainbow] spectrum order:  1st period red, 2nd period yellow, 3rd period green, 4th period blue.”

5.  “It doesn’t matter, because I never wrote in any of them.”

6.  “Whatever else, math is red, because the devil is also red.”

7.  A former restaurant employee joked:  “Blue is Seafood, Yellow is Chicken, Green is Vegetables, and Red is for Beef.”  (But using colored cutting boards is actually a thing in restaurant kitchens . . . for food safety.)

8.  Someone tried to connect it to “Trivial Pursuit”, but it doesn’t line up . . . because there’s no math.

(This is a REAL debate.  Back in August a parent ordered a folder on DoorDash for their son, and the Dasher even asked, “What subject is the folder for?”  The parent said, “Science, why?”  And the Dasher shared a photo of a green one, and said, “Had to know which color to get.”)