This is a question we were asked many years ago in a general maths session at a teacher training college. There is an answer although I am happy to consider creative responses.
2006-09-15 00:42:46 · 37 answers · asked by Headcase 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Thanks for all the creative responses. Sorry I am going to have to stop this because my email list is getting rather long. The answer is very mundane - comes from the Cuisenaire and Colourfactor systems of counting using wooden rods - both are starting to become popular again in primary schools.
2006-09-15 19:36:16 · update #1
yellow
2006-09-15 00:50:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's pretty curvy, so probably a deeper, less shocking color, but it does have a little bit of sharpness, as it's pronounced "five." I'm going to call it blue. Not a deep blue like navy or a lighter blue like cerulean, just standard, run of the mill crayola blue.
I'm curious to see what synaesthetes say about this.
2006-09-15 00:46:31 · answer #2 · answered by Sinai 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Green
In resistor colour codes, Green corresponds to the number 5
2006-09-15 02:06:16 · answer #3 · answered by keyser 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to numerology, the number five corresponds to white and generally light colours (and is associated with the planet Mercury and the art of communication).
2006-09-15 00:45:48 · answer #4 · answered by big pup in a small bath 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The colour of five is a British company based in Wembley
(and hey - that's far more creative than just saying "blue" :-) )
2006-09-15 00:49:25 · answer #5 · answered by stafflers.t21@btinternet.com 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Red
2006-09-15 00:46:02 · answer #6 · answered by daisymay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a red if you colorize 5% in 'hue' in a software program but it is also a green if we were to think birthstones. Green is the colour for May, it being Emerald. And it is dark green for August it being Peridot=olive green
2006-09-15 01:03:35 · answer #7 · answered by WW 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the number 5 always makes me think of the colour red?
seems to fit nicely for some reason?
2006-09-15 00:44:57 · answer #8 · answered by DEMON 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Five is lime green. If my answer make sense to you, then you have synesthesia - meaning, literally, joined sensations - an extraordinary condition that causes certain senses to "leak" into one another.
2006-09-15 01:45:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since I was little a gave a colour to every number.
1~red
2~light blue
3~lime green
4~orange
5~DARK BLUE
6~Dark green
7~salmon
8~green
9~purple
10~crimzon
2006-09-15 03:37:36 · answer #10 · answered by xTamsynx 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Orangey... like the colour of the inside of satsuma peel.
2006-09-15 00:48:56 · answer #11 · answered by k² 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋