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Peer reviewedZazkis, Rina; Liljedahl, Peter – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2002
Explores the attempts of a group of preservice elementary school teachers to generalize a repeating visual number pattern. Discusses students' emergent algebraic thinking. Indicates that students' ability to express generalities verbally was not accompanied by algebraic notation, but participants often perceived complete and accurate solutions…
Descriptors: Algebra, Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation, Elementary Education
