Practical Math for Frontend Developers is a 65-minute intermediate-level course that teaches essential math skills through hands-on coding. Instead of abstract formulas, students immediately apply concepts by building three projects: a shopping cart with tax calculations, a weekly scheduling app using the Date object and array methods, and a monthly expense sheet that ties everything together. With interactive challenges built into the course, learners practice applying math directly in the context of frontend development.
The course is taught by Ryan Gonyon, a web developer with five years of experience, a B.S. in Computer Science, and a strong background in math tutoring for K-12 and university-level students. His teaching style emphasizes clarity and practicality, ensuring learners walk away with math skills that feel directly useful in their coding work. The community also trusts Scrimba. It's a unique interactive platform. Rather than passively watching videos, students can pause lessons, edit code, and test solutions live inside the browser.
Math is an often-overlooked skill in frontend development, yet it underpins everyday tasks like handling dates, calculating totals, and working with arrays. This course focuses on the specific concepts that developers need most, cutting out unnecessary complexity and showing how to use math as a tool for building functional, user-facing applications. Practical math skills make developers more efficient, enabling them to solve problems without over-relying on external libraries or guesswork.