@article {MATHEDUC.02335168, author = {Antoniazzi, Stefano}, title = {An experience of "discrete" calculus. (Un'esperienza di calcolo 'discreto'.)}, year = {2000}, journal = {L'Insegnamento della Matematica e delle Scienze Integrate}, volume = {23B}, number = {3}, issn = {1123-7570}, pages = {259-269}, publisher = {Centro Ricerche Didattiche Ugo Morin, Paderno del Grappa TV}, abstract = {In this paper we report about a didactical experience in the field of algebra realized in a first class of secondary school. The topic concerns the use of the ``Ruffini's method'' as a technique for assessing a polynomial (not only for doing the divisions) and the ``discovery'' of its computation efficiency/complexity. During the experience the students have obtained three different ways for expressing the sum of the natural numbers from 1 to n. (orig.)}, msc2010 = {H23xx}, identifier = {2000e.03533}, }