My Personal Opinion. If you can do real life tasks like balancing a checkbook or figuring out how to split a restaurant bill, you probably know enough math to

My Personal Opinion. If you can do real life tasks like balancing a checkbook or figuring out how to split a restaurant bill, you probably know enough math to be a pretty good or even elite programmer, except for specializations like working on 3D graphics. Most programmers aren't inventing new calculus concepts from scratch as part of their problem-solving. Most are doing fairly simple order of operations (PEMDAS) types of math problems and glueing CRUD APIs together. The level of math required for that can be done by a solid middle-schooler.