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An Initiation into Algebraic Culture Through Generalization Activities
Approaches to algebra: perspectives for research and teaching, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p 102 … it is much of a challenge to demonstrate that functions, modelling, and problem solving are all types of generalizing activities, that algebra and indeed all of mathematics is about generalizing patterns. p 103 The history of the science of algebra is the story of the growth of a technique for representing of finite patterns. The notion of the importance of pattern is as old as civilization. Every art is founded on the study of patterns. Mathematics is the most powerful technique for the understanding of pattern, and for the analysis of the relationships of patterns.(1996)
