The Maths Bazaar

Nationwide fined £44m by watchdog for financial crime control failings Ineffective systems culminated in serious case of Covid fraud that cost UK taxpayers £800,000

You must read this amazing financial story. Nationwide has been fined £44m for not noticing a customer who paid £27m into their current account, 24 fraudulent Covid furlough payments over 8 days. The customer's address was registered to 59,666 other companies.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

About 300. 100 have one as the units digit, 100 have one as the tens digit, and 100 have one as the hundreds digit. Haven’t checked on duplication yet though!

Unfortunate Microsoft Word tip in this week's newsletter:

How to insert extra lines in a numbered list

Sadly, bluesky doesn’t allow direct message groups, so Jamie hasn’t been able to set up an equivalent community here

Trolling the Reddits again by pretending the A-level Maths sub is specifically for UK qualifications, not the thousands of International A-level students out there posting on it

#YouKnowWho

No, but it’s hard to get updates via a Twitter group if you are not on Twitter anymore

Now do the Ardingly Show

Cover of Wells's THE WAR OF THE WORLDS; the Martian tripod has 5 legs

Cover of Jerome's THREE MEN IN A BOAT (TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG); there are only two men, but an extra dog, and one of the dogs is hanging from a fishing pole

Also incapable of counting legs on a Martian tripod, and incapable of counting both men and dogs in a book which specifically features the numbers of both in the title (also, one of the dogs has been caught like a fish):

SATIRE

Thanks

They could get us to do the old QTS-requirement ICT Skills Test on fake Microsoft Office software. And we could do it every day because we'd forget.
www.amazon.co.uk/Passing-ICT-...

Interestingly the solution I found online does the same thing with the limits, but then does integration by parts with u = ln(2 - cos(x)) and v' = cos(x), which leads to a substitution of u = cos(x) and an answer of 2025(4 - 3ln3)

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Party cat

For those within driving distance of Surbiton, the legendary DrFrostMaths Teacher Social is back for Christmas!
Prosecco at Frosty's Dec 22nd at 6.30pm, followed by 7.30pm for a meal at the local pub. If you would like to come, email jamie@drfrost.org to be added to the Twitter group. Yes, Twitter.

Anyone seen this integral in the wild? It looks (from the limits) to be a novelty one for 2025, but a student sent it to me and I don't think it's within A Level expectations. He's happy that the series is e^x.

Maths department Christmas dinner at the Toby Carvery. I’ve got my extra big plate!

circus marketing

You may already know the Teacher Art Pass is a great offer (£25 instead of £83) but before January you can get another £5 off! A year of free and reduced exhibitions for only £20. Use www.artfund.org/refer-a-teac... to get the discount.

The Teachers Pension Scheme has sent an email to all schools saying that they have changed their bank details and this is the new account all teachers' pension payments should be sent to.

Does this sound like a SCAM to you?

Never trust an email containing bank details, always check in person!

I’ve discovered Saoirse Ronan‘s nemesis

10. How to be polite and show respect In the old days of feudal Japan, a samurai warrior would shout You are trying to view Flash content, but you have no Flash plugin installed.

It’s true! Trump has edited the Bible on my phone!!

Joining the Waitrose 7:30 am Club

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It's not too soon to get Christmassy in your lessons!
b.link/alevelchrist... has Calculated Colouring from @drbennison.bsky.social Christmas Cards from @chalkdustmag.bsky.social and @mscroggs.co.uk GCHQ Christmas Challenge, and Complex Loci Christmas

Unless it rotates you using the matrix
[root(3)/2 -1/2]
[1/2 root(3)/2]
In which case the number of Harks must be a multiple of 6

Zen Harking