The following is an article explaining how the Wolfram Demonstrations Project and Wolfram Alpha engines can be used to elicit student understanding of parent functions and transformations. Student will be able to show mathematical understanding by playing and manipulating the parent function on the Wolfram Demonstrations Project and visually see what each manipulation will do to the graph. Students will also be able to check their understanding by using Wolfram Alpha and inputting the function they want to see transformed. Teachers are also able to use these engines to teach the class and explain the manipulations to the students as part of their lessons.