The availability of instructional examples in the mathematics classroom challenges theway teachers confront students with several aspects of the content, which cancontribute to designating the generality of mathematical concepts. Using the theory ofvariation and Deleuze’s philosophical concepts as the main interpretative framework,this study investigates what is involved in repetition and the nature of its interiority,what we understand by conceptual difference and difference without concept in adevelopment study. The data consisted of 36 teachers’ lesson plans. Qualitativeanalysis of these data led to the identification of events types and the characteristics ofrepetition.