Numbers and Colors

I was talking with Wander about Sparkle and her color/number associations. He recalled that Sparkle's first encounters with written numbers was with foam numbers in the bathtub. He wondered if her color/number associations might have arisen from those foam numbers. Although it's been years since we've used them on a regular basis, we still have most of the foamies, so I dug them up for a color comparison.

Here is a color comparison for numbers according to C-rods, MUS blocks, Sparkle, and tub numbers:

num	C-Rods	MUS	Sparkle	tub num
1	white	green	yellow	yellow
2	red	orange	red	green
3	light green	pink	blue	blue
4	purple	yellow	green	orange
5	yellow	pale blue	red	red
6	dark green	violet	yellow	yellow/blue (6 and 9 are identical shapes)
7	black	cream	red	purple
8	brown	brown	green	green
9	blue	aqua	blue	yellow/blue (6 and 9 are identical shapes)
10	orange	blue	yellow	yellow/yellow/purple (1 is yellow, and the blocks representing zero and the letter "O" are yellow and purple)

As you can see there is a high correlation between the colors of the foam tub numbers and Sparkle's personal colors for the numbers. Sparkle has only four different colors spread across the numbers. For seven of the ten numbers (1,3,5,6,8,9,10), Sparkle's number's match the tub numbers. For one of the numbers (2), Sparkle's color matched the C-rod. For the other two numbers (4,7), Sparkle's color didn't match anything.

I'd say that Wander figured this one out.