A GROUP of year 10 girls from Weydon School have attended a series of lectures at the Mathematical Institute at Oxford University.

It focused on topics such as the fluid dynamics of chocolate fountains, maths in sport and Fermi estimation.

The day was highly interactive, allowing the girls to apply maths to the real world and learn about a range of theories, including how the Coriolis effect of the Earth spinning can displace a golf ball by up to 4cm in one shot.

Using nothing but their own prior knowledge, the students learnt how to estimate what percentage of the ocean is plastic and how much water could be saved if everyone in the UK turned the tap off while brushing their teeth.

It allowed the girls to see how maths can be used in the real world and showed them what type of maths they could learn at university.

The school hopes it will have inspired some of them to consider taking maths at A-level and further.