Aims
The aim of TSG 3is to gather educational researchers, research mathematicians, mathematics teachers, teacher educators, designers and other congress participants for the international exchange of ideas related to identifying and nourishing mathematically gifted students.
The focal topics will include but not bounded to:

• Theoretical models of giftedness and the relationship between creativity and giftedness;
• Empirical research that will contribute to the development of our understanding in the field. We plan to discuss:
    - effective research methodologies and research innovations (e.g., brain research) in the field of mathematical giftedness;
    - the findings of qualitative and quantitative studies related to high mathematical promise, its realization, and
    - the relationship between mathematical creativity and mathematical talent.
• Profiles of the gifted child: their range of interests, ambitions and motivations, social behaviour, how and at what age their giftedness is discovered or developed.
• Instructional design directed at teaching the gifted as well as development of appropriate didactical principles. The discussions will be focused on:
    - the ways that lead students to discover and realize their mathematical talents;
    - the ways of developing mathematical innovation at high level;
    - mathematical activities that are challenging, free of routine, inquiry-based, and rich in authentic mathematical problem solving;
    - types of mathematics suitable for challenging gifted students;
    - creation of mathematics challenges;
    - out-of-school ways of fostering giftedness, e.g., mathematics clubs, homeschooling, mathematical shows and competitions.
• Teacher education aimed at mathematics teaching that encourages mathematical promise and promotes mathematical talents, including:
    - issues of the psychology of teaching talented students;
    - socio-cultural and affective characteristics of the mathematically gifted;
    - types of mathematics and pedagogy suitable for educating teachers for the gifted.

Guidelines for submission  
The organizing team welcomes significant contributions related to the topics outlined here and to other related issue. Participants are requested to submit a paper no later than November 30, 2011 both via e-mailsto the two team chairs and through the online submission system at the ICME-12 official website. The length of contributions should be between 2000 and 3000 words in length.

On-line submission
Go to<My Page> at the first page of the Congress Homepagehttp://icme12.org or press <Submit your proposal> button on TSG 3 website in the Congress Homepage.

Important deadlines:
November 30, 2011 Proposal submission
January 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance
April 10, 2012 Submission of Final Draft

Endnotes
i. For general congress informationhttp://www.icme12.org/ Information about the group will be published soon at the conference site.
ii. The work of our group is related to the work of International Group for Mathematical Creativity and Giftedness http:// igmcg.org/ ;http://www.mathunion.org/icmi.
iii. The work of our group is a continuation of
a) TSG4 at ICME 10 in Copenhagen, Denmark http://www.icme10.dk/
b) TSG6 at ICME-11, in Monterrey, Mexico http://tsg.icme11.org/tsg/show/7
c) ICMI Study 16, Challenging Mathematics in and beyond the Classroom (http://www.amt.canberra.edu.au/icmis16.html) Chaired by E. Barbeau, P. Taylor

Organizers 
Co-chairs : Peter Taylor(Australia) pjt013@gmail.com 
                 RozaLeikin(Israel) rozal@construct.haifa.ac.il
Team Members : Linda Sheffield(USA) sheffield@nku.edu
                          Victor Freiman(Canada) freimanv@umoncton.ca
                          Florence Mihaela Singer(Romania) mikisinger@gmail.com
                          Bo Mi Shin(Korea) bomi0210@jnu.ac.kr
Liaison IPC Member :Shiqi Li sqli@math.ecnu.edu.cn