In this article I report on the two parts of the workshop I carried out during ESU7. The first one was aimed at gathering and discussing the opinions of the participants to the conference about the use of history in mathematics classroom. During the workshop, Man Keung Siu’s article « No, I don’t use history of mathematics in my class. Why? » has been illustrated. People who did not participate in the workshop could post their answers into a specific BOX standing in the hall of the conference site, during all the five ESU7 days. The main outcome was that history is believed to be a resource for students to improve their way to work in mathematics.

In the second part of the workshop, some documents from the work of Italian
mathematicians Francesco Ghaligai and Rafael Bombelli were provided to
participants who were asked to analyse the originals and to plan some activities, for example laboratories or short exercises, for students aged 14-16. Discussion regarded both historical and pedagogical remarks.