Mark Fitch

mathematician, cyclist, pilot

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@Mainefly Either option is flawed. Time zones are political things not related to health or astronomy. High noon occurs at 2pm here because having more time zones is inconvenient for business. Northern areas, Maine is in the south from where I live, do not see the same problems or benefits

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@jetwhine To be clear it was over weight for icing conditions, not overweight

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@TedG @maanow @tandfSTEM Ximena Catepillan who worked on this will be presenting on other ethnomathematics topics at the MAA PNW Section meeting in June at the University of Alaska Anchorage

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@howie_hua Too scary for many

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@TienChihMath Gills

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@dtkung Sometimes see this in mud as well. Can cover an area a square foot or more

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@AlaskaAir @AlaskaAir now 4 for 4: all my flights delayed. None with good communication. Locked on plane for an hour as crees did very little work

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

Bad day for @AlaskaAir . One hour after landing and they have not started off loading luggage for 792 due to mechanical issue. No info from them

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@AlaskaAir 2 hours 45 minutes later luggage off loaded. Never an announcement from @AlaskaAir . One employee provided what little she was told but she was swamped.

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@AlaskaAir no one working bag drop at ANC

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@SitDownPee

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@SitDownPee I typically slice more apple than I can fit in

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@TienChihMath Tie ribbons to the top and have students analyze the mathematics of maypole dances

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@SitDownPee I have 2 pairs of shoes almost every day, though admittedly I wear both those days

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@TienChihMath Some of the projects used in liberal arts mathematics have ties to other fields which might broaden interest, for example analysis of visual art or dance.

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@ProfKinyon What are the rest of the words?

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@SitDownPee @ZJAyres It's too much fun to be serious about it

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@evelynjlamb @slcmoves Somewhere in the Netherlands they had push to cross buttons for the bike lanes separate from the pedestrian ones. Useful. The sensors used for cars work by detecting large mass via electrical property (not weight). We cyclists don't have enough

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@TienChihMath I've been thinking about how to get students to understand the distinction between a function and some representation of it. This is inherently philosophical

[Mark Fitch @drmfitch]

@atAlanBell @VisualAlgebra Inkscape happily edits SVG and PDF so I routinely create an initial image in software then clean up in Inkscape