Writing $s = \sigma + it$ for a complex variable, it is proved that the modulus of the gamma function, $|\Gamma(s)|$, is strictly monotone increasing with respect to $\sigma$ whenever $|t| > 5/4$. It is also shown that this result is false for $|t| \leq 1$.

In the present paper, we introduce a modification of the Meyer-K\"{o}nig and Zeller (MKZ) operators which preserve the test functions $f_{0}(x)=1$ and $f_{2}(x)=x^{2}$, and we show that this modification provides a better estimation than the classical MKZ operators on the interval $[\frac{1}{2},1)$ with respect to the modulus of continuity and the Lipschitz class functionals. Furthermore, we present the $r-$th order generalization of our operators and study their approximation properties.