As this conversation indicated, cognitive elaboration was not naturalistic skillful questioning or prompting was necessary to carry a thorough elaboration on all key cognitive steps for math problem solving As observed, most participants revealed no awareness or skills to produce cognitive elaboration or prompt for cognitive elaboration production In consequence, peer scaffolding was not an automatic occurrence. More often, a participant would simply throw answers on his/her peers, rather than explaining the mental reasoning or problem solving process: ‘‘Just trust me. Choose A,” stated by Mark to Jack