i think he means jsut for coding, does he need those two skills. ive wonder this too. Do you need to be good at math to do C++ to write games. I mean like rpg though. Thats my fav. I wanan go in to a career of that.
unless you can work complex trigonomic calculations that have to do with angle measurement and movement for lets say a game character in a 3d world, you wont be programming very interactive games.