This activity is designed to have students practice graphing exponential functions. The questions are designed so that students will have to think about the transformations that are taking place.

• to identify the parent function
• to explain in words what transformation of the parent function is taking place
• to graph the function
• to identify the domain and range of the function
• To identify the new location of the original y-intercept

Prerequisites

1. Students have learned the basics of functions

2. Students have learned functional notation

3. Students understand the basics of graphing a function

4.. Students have been introduced to exponential functions

5. Students have been introduced to the parent functions

6. Students have already explored the transformation of exponential

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