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

Meme needing explanation Petah why cant math be green?

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u/V-Man776 Aug 01 '26

The joke is that for some reason people get really up in arms about what color of binder or notebook others use for each school subject. This is because people see certain colors as being more fitting for certain subjects than others. It seems as though the Staples social media manager has strong feelings on this topic, saying that OOP chose the wrong color to represent math, even though it really doesn't matter since abstract concepts like school subjects don't really have an objective way to color code them.

With that said, OOP is right. Math is green because I like math and also like green, so clearly they should be paired together.

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u/SatsumaOranges Aug 01 '26

The nuance here is that for some reason a lot of people agree on certain subjects without knowing it. For example, here is a (very small sample size) survey where nearly everyone agreed that science is green.
https://machronicle.com/the-great-rainbow-debate-what-color-are-the-subjects/

It was a topic of discussion on social media a few months back, I believe.

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u/papa-hare Aug 01 '26

Is science like biology? That's def green. But chemistry and physics? Idk. (Is science really a subject in school here?! Like non differentiated?)

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u/SatsumaOranges Aug 01 '26

Depends where you live and what grade, I guess. Where I grew up we had a generic science until grade 7, where it split.

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u/Noughmad Aug 01 '26

Same here, but then again we didn't have differentiated history up to that grade as well. We start with one subject of "nature and society", then separate "nature" and "society", then finally separate biology (and later chemistry and physics), history and geography.

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u/Dudegamer010901 Aug 01 '26

For us science was generic for elementary (K to Grade 8) and then for high school it was split up.