Concreteness Fading in Mathematics and Science Instruction: a Systematic Review

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What Makes Mathematics Manipulatives Effective? Lessons From Cognitive Science and Montessori Education (2015, background): “Recent studies indicate that a systematic fading of concreteness can increase children’s ability to transfer knowledge acquired through manipulatives to novel, unfamiliar problems (Fyfe et al., 2014).”
Eight Ways to Promote Generative Learning (2016, background): “In math instruction, one promising remedy is to use concreteness fading (Fyfe et al. 2014; McNeil and Fyfe 2012).”
Language models show human-like content effects on reasoning (2022, background): “Likewise, language model performance on the Wason tasks increases most when they are demonstrated with realistic examples; benefits of concrete examples have been found in cognitive and educational contexts (Sweller et al., 1998; Fyfe et al., 2014), but remain to be explored in the Wason problems.”
Tell me why! - Explanations support learning of relational and causal structure (2021, background): “Explanations can also vary in abstraction (cf. Fyfe et al., 2014).”
Tell me why! Explanations support learning relational and causal structure (2021, background): “Explanations can also vary in abstraction (cf. Fyfe et al., 2014; Watkins et al., 2021).”