Comment It depends! (Score 1) 1086
I just helped a friend out with a ton of javascript animation for his webcomic (blatant plug: http://www.prequeladventure.com/ ), creating a 3d, semi-interactive environment, all in JS/CSS, and I ended up using a ton of math for it. Simple offset calculations, trig, parabolic arcs, exponential decay, and so on. Ended up giving up some things that would have required finding cubic roots of bezier curves because my math wasn't good enough.
But apart from that, I haven't used any serious math in a long time.
So, it depends... I think the more you rely on interacting or emulating "the real world", the more important math is.