Ben was a whole new person today! He was happy and energetic. I love when he's feeling good like this!! Today we discussed how to transform Absolute Value Functions - up and down. We've already seen how to reflect, stretch and shrink the graphs, but today we shifted them up and down. I gave Ben the equations y=abs(x)+3 and asked him how he thinks it would affect the original graph. He said he thinks it would stretch it. So we tested values for x and saw that the graph actually didn't stretch, but instead shift up 3 units. We discussed how this does not affect the domain, but it does affect the range since the y's on the graph were affected. Ben did wonderfully following along with the lesson and participating.