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This example is very much like Rogoff's example with the Mayan girls making tortillas. My aunt has taught my cousin to make homemade pizza in much the same way. She makes the crust from scratch and lets him help roll it out and knead it. Apprentice in thinking is happening because she has been making pizzas this way for many years so she is more skilled than he is. She uses guided participation to teach him what he needs to do, when it needs more flour, and its size, etc. He is able to roll out the dough as well as he does because she has been teaching him at his ZPD, the level of the activity that he can do with her help. Scaffolding is also at work because as he has gotten more skilled she helps him less with his pizza and uses the time to work on a seperate one of her own.