Early algebra and mathematical generalization

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A Learning Progression for Elementary Students’ Functional Thinking (2017, methodology): “Several studies suggest that when confronted with functional relationships, students initially tend to focus not on relationships between varying quantities but on recursive patterns in the dependent variable (Carraher et al., 2008; Lannin et al., 2006; Warren & Cooper, 2008).”
What Is a Pattern? Criteria Used by Teachers and Young Children (2012, background): “How an image is perceived to be organized has an impact on how it may be generalized and expressed algebraically (Carraher et al., 2008; Mason, 1996; Moss & Beatty, 2006).”