TI Families of Functions: Teaching Parent Functions and Transformations

TI Families of Functions offers teachers a huge online resource featuring hundreds of short video lessons designed to help students learn how to graph parent functions and their transformations — one step at a time, topic by topic.

Teachers get instant access to 15 featured math modules for use in detailed introductory lessons to bridge learning gaps or as quick recap lessons to provide just-in-time instruction. Every math module features several types of video lessons, including:

• The featured lesson for an in-depth exploration of the parent function
• Introductory videos reviewing the transformations of functions
• Quick graphing exercises to refresh students’ memories, if needed

With the help of the downloadable reference guide, it’s quick and easy to add specific videos to lesson plans, review various lessons for in-class discussion, assign homework or share exercises with students for extra practice.