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That's why I wanted to provoke you with something where mathematicians don't know yet if there's an answer or not. That's no reason not to look for an answer. Perhaps you'll be the one who finds it. After a game and discussion of the industrial uses of polyominoes, the group breaks for lunch with other groups doing science, drama and poetry.

Here and there you see the little professor, the eccentric, the potential disruptive. Above the din, you catch words such as 'tesselate', 'substance', 'triumphantly'. But for the most part, the trainers and T-shirts, the chatter and laughter, look and sound perfectly ordinary. There might be three of them in a school. Here they've got At school they're under stress.

Here they gain strength from the knowledge that something better is possible, that there are other people like them. Essex County Council used to be internationally renowned for recognising the needs of gifted children in its schools. But two years ago it stopped funding the team of teachers that ran courses for gifted children. So the teachers decided to carry on the work themselves. Mr Hind, Mr Whybra and James Senior, another former Essex teacher, set up a company called Gift, hiring teachers who had experience with exceptionally able children.

Children began to come from further afield than Essex; the last course had participants from Kent, Hertfordshire and Wiltshire. From next month Gift will also offer consultancy - advising and training schools to help their gifted pupils. The courses are filled through school recommendation. BBC Local. Gifted kids could lose out Ramaa Sharma.

Julian Whybra, Managing Director of Gift Ltd says : "Repercussions will be immense for gifted and talented children from Waltham Forest as there will be no nearby state-run residential facility where they can attend for academic or environmental pursuits.

She says: "I'm really annoyed about it He says: "It's not really fair, there's nothing wrong with it and it's not losing any money as far as I know London Headlines.

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