David Johns

This is a word document that I use as a hand-out for my pre-calculus students learning about parent functions and their off-spring (I like to call them the "momma" functions as well). Through examples of absolute value, quadratic, cubic, radical, and rational functions, I offer a visual and explanations of transformations. Vertical and horizontal stretches and shifts are the transformations. I left a couple of boxes blank for the students to offer their sketches of the transformed function.