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Well, those that advocate the skills of math are likely programming at a far lower level than many of us. I am not able to build my own compilers or question if the makers of my tools made them memory efficient enough. But I don't feel I have to to make quality systems.
I have worked with programming for about 15 years and though I liked math I graduated at 19 years old, so that level is low.
When building administrative systems the math just doesn't get hard, except in rare cases of statistics and such. So your math skills will not affect the quality of the work you are able to do, you just have to stay away from some rare tasks.
I have built a number of insurance systems for insurance companies and fund managers and such. No problems with math there. And I build great systems! Usually the actuaries at the insurance companies uses Excel for their statistical analyses and they will supply their formulas, if needed, for the systems.
If you want to get into programing and fear the math, go for it anyway. There are many fields where it is not needed and you learn along the way. Stay with high level tools and applications and your fine with basic understanding of math.
But Rangsk is right, if you work for the company that developes the database engine I use in my systems, then I hope you get your math right!
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