r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Light_Yagami72 • Aug 01 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah why cant math be green?

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u/SoleSurvivorZeke2 Aug 01 '26

Math is red green is science. Did you learn nothing in school?

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u/Light_Yagami72 Aug 01 '26

We did not use coloured notebooks for different subjects. I am from Asia

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u/XeroEnergy270 Aug 01 '26

They are being facetious. It's entirely up to the student as to what notebooks are used. It's just a weird thing that people collectively have preferences.

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u/foxbones Aug 01 '26

No they are spitting facts. Math is red and Science is green. I believe there was a Supreme Court case in the 70s about it.

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u/BeeRemote7662 Aug 01 '26

It was overturned in 2025./s

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u/RetrogradeToyGuru Aug 01 '26

Science is green because of trivial pursuit

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u/ForcefulBookdealer Aug 01 '26

We actually had folders/notebooks assigned colors in certain grades!

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u/WiseOrder4436 Aug 01 '26

No, I went to a school where color notebooks were determined by teachers.

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u/Empty-Rutabaga-3647 Aug 01 '26

I was homeschooled from 4th through 9th grade so I appreciate you posting this. :) I understood that there must be some weird accident of a majority of folks using the same colors for the same subjects, so the joke is for them, but I can't function if I don't have a three ring binder, so I just had subject tabs to separate my loose-leaf notes and those were either translucent or whatever my favorite color was at the time (purple, usually).