Unit Name: Absolute Value Graphs

Title: Review Absolute Value Transformations

Lesson #: 2
Lesson Components
Virginia Standards of
Learning (VSOL)

Objective (KUD)

Description
AII.6 The student will recognize the general shape of function
(absolute value, square root, cube root, rational, polynomial,
exponential, and logarithmic) families and will convert between
graphic and symbolic forms of functions. A transformational
approach to graphing will be employed. Graphing calculators will
be used as a tool to investigate the shapes and behaviors of these
functions.
AII.7 The student will investigate and analyze functions
algebraically and graphically. Key concepts include
a) domain and range, including limited and discontinuous
domains and ranges;
b) zeros;
c) x- and y-intercepts;
d) intervals in which a function is increasing or decreasing;
e) asymptotes;
f) end behavior;
g) inverse of a function; and
h) composition of multiple functions.
Graphing calculators will be used as a tool to assist in investigation of
functions.
Students will know:
Which operations perform which graph transformations on an
absolute value function.
How transformations on absolute value functions change the 8
characteristics of functions.
Students will understand:
That different operations on the absolute value function
transform the graphical representation in different ways.
That different operations on the absolute value function
affects other aspects of the graph (domain, range, x-intercept,
y-intercept, increasing, decreasing, turning point, end
behavior).
Students will be able to:
Convert between graphic and symbolic forms of the absolute
value function.
Identify the 8 characteristics of functions (domain, range, xintercept, y-intercept, increasing, decreasing, turning point,
end behavior) of absolute value functions when they are
transformed.

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Procedures

Materials/Equipment/
Preparation
Prior and/or
Foundational
Knowledge

1.

Warm-up
Participation in reviewing warm-up
Participation in expert group
Participation in learning group
Learning group chart handout
As students enter the class, give them a colored number notecard
that will indicate their groups later.
2. Display warm-up for students to work on while beginning of class
procedures are taken care of.
3. Go over warm-up.
4. Introduce jigsaw model run-through to students.
5. Instruct students to get in their number groups (four expert
groups).
6. Give students 10-15 minutes in their expert groups.
7. Tell students to then get in their color group and give them 12-18
minutes in their learning groups.
8. Give a 2 minute warning to wrap up in their groups and complete
their chart.
9. Have students move desks back and return to their original seat.
10. Go over homework problems assigned last class and clarify any
lingering questions.
11. Assign transformation worksheet as homework to be collected
next class and allow students to work on it until end.
Colored number notecards (19), warm-up, expert group handouts (4),
learning groups chart (19), transformation worksheet (19).
Transformations of an absolute value graph
Shape of an absolute value graph
Mathematical operations
How to interpret and create a graph