Totally an intolerable myth
Einstein, throughout his childhood education, was an excellent math student - always the top in his class. When a rabbi showed Einstein a newspaper article (in 1935) that said Einstein had been bad at math as a student, Einstein laughed and replied "I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus". Where the myth may have started, is that while in University, Einstein found himself far more interested in his physics courses than his math courses. He believed (and later regretted) that a physicist only needed elementary mathematics. So he didn't bother to attend a lot of his math classes. He always passed them, often getting a rating of 4 on the 6 point scale (while in his other classes he usually got 6 out of 6). This caused one of his professors, Hermann Minkowski, to say he was a "lazy dog".
Source: Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster 2008.
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