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.

Sometimes the textbook does not provide the right kind of final exam for my curriculum. This is why I often make my own like this one on a word document. It includes three parts. Without the calculator the students graph transformations of parent functions and include key details. The two parts with the calculator includes questions on rational functions, power functions, completing the square, solving for x in difficult equations (and inequalities), and a few word problems. I hope you enjo