Book excerpt: Work more effectively and check solutions as you go along with the text! This Student Solutions Manual provides complete solutions to selected problems from Connally's Functions Modeling Change, 2nd Edition. These solutions will help you develop strong problem solving skills. From the Calculus Consortium based at Harvard University, Functions Modeling Change, 2nd Edition prepares readers for the study of calculus, presenting families of functions as models for change. These materials stress conceptual understanding and multiple ways of representing mathematical ideas. The focus throughout is on those topics that are essential to the study of calculus and these topics are treated in depth.