Passive Replace (PR) sits at the Passive row and Replace column of the PICRAT grid. Below: real Maths lessons for KS3 that classify as PR, plus anti-examples that look PR but are not.
Walkthrough of multiplying fractions on PowerPoint
The class is at the start of a fractions unit. Today is a 35-minute teacher-led demonstration before next lesson's independent practice. The teacher has built a 12-slide PowerPoint with five worked examples of fraction multiplication, each one slightly more complex than the last (proper times proper, proper times improper, mixed times proper, simplifying first, then a word problem).
The deck is shared on the LMS. Students follow on their iPads while the teacher narrates each step. After each worked example, the next slide shows a similar question with the workings hidden; students attempt it in their books before the teacher reveals the answer. The lesson is essentially a guided demonstration the students can scroll back through later.
Tools: PowerPoint
Quizizz times-tables fluency starter
Year 8 maintain times-tables fluency throughout KS3. Today's 10-minute starter is a Quizizz of 30 mixed times-tables questions, drawn from the four-times-table through to the twelves. The teacher built the quiz at the start of the year and reuses it as a low-stakes fluency check fortnightly.
Students log in, work through at their own pace and compete against themselves to beat a personal best. The class scoreboard shows for ten seconds at the end. The teacher uses the question-level analytics on the staff dashboard to spot which times-table needs more rehearsal, but the dashboard stays on the staff side. Individual scores are not shared with the class.
Tools: Quizizz
Pythagoras worked-solutions video with comprehension check
Year 9 met Pythagoras' theorem last lesson. Today is a recap before independent practice. The teacher has chosen a 12-minute video from a curriculum-aligned channel that walks through three worked solutions: a simple right-triangle, a triangle with a calculator answer needing rounding, and a real-world problem (a ladder leaning against a wall).
Students watch on their iPads. Pausing and rewinding is encouraged. The video ends with a five-question Microsoft Form: identify the hypotenuse from a sketch, choose the correct equation for a given triangle, and round a final answer to one decimal place. The teacher reviews the live class results in the last two minutes and re-explains the rounding question if needed.
Tools: YouTube, Microsoft Forms
This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and key stage. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.