Pupils from Aberdeenshire will put their maths skills to the test in hopes to predict the winner of the Australian Open 2018.

More than 50 youngsters will take part TechFest's Anyone For Tennis...and Maths? project at Robert Gordon University on Saturday

During the masterclass, they will learn how maths can be used to work out how likely a player is to win a tennis match, based on their chance of winning an individual point in that game.

They will also learn how to apply geometric progressions when calculating whether Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world, would ever catch the masterclass key speaker, Adrian McBurnie, in a race if he had a 40m head start.

Mr McBurnie said: "The upcoming final of the Australian Open presents a great opportunity to introduce the pupils to three mathematical concepts that they can use to predict the winner.

"The class will begin with using the concept of probability to measure how likely an event is to occur using practical experiments such as coin tosses and examples drawn from real-life oil industry situations."