ClueCon Weekly with Courtney Yatteau [Sn. 15 Ep. 23]: Making Math Click with Web Animations

ClueCon Weekly with Courtney Yatteau [Sn. 15 Ep. 23]: Making Math Click with Web Animations

What if math felt less abstract and more like something you can see and move?
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In this episode of ClueCon Weekly, host Jon Gray sits down with Courtney Yatteau (DevRel at Esri, former computer science and math teacher) to talk about Math in Motion—a workshop that brings classic math concepts to life using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and canvas.
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Courtney shares how she turns “paper math” into interactive visuals that help people build intuition through cause-and-effect. We dig into examples like unit circles and sine waves, why small interactions (even one slider) can unlock understanding, and how developers can experiment with math animations without needing a big framework.
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You’ll also hear Courtney’s simple mental model for building these experiences—RAPID:
▪️Receive where people get stuck
▪️Apply the simplest math that teaches the idea
▪️Project it visually
▪️Iterate
▪️Draw the takeaway
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Plus: Courtney talks open source projects for FOSS February and where she’s presenting the talk next.