Schools report growing demand and success from students taking the relatively new College Board math course.

Precalculus Coordinator Matthew Beyranevand, left, and math major Melanie Khiem are researching the K-12 math curriculum and success in college calculus.

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.