My name is Jaxon Cota and I'm eleven years old, I love baseball.

Being on the baseball diamond makes me happiest.

Baseball is just one of my passions.

There is just naturally a lot of thinking that... that's involved with this ;

statistics and where you have to be on each play and things like that.

Well I took a test to get into our... our school 's gifted and talented program

and Mensa somehow found out about it.

And we sent in some applications and I was accepted into Mensa based on those test scores.

When I was really little, I could read really long numbers ; 15, 18 digits into the quadrillions and quintillions.

I would say that we probably knew something was different about Jaxon before he was two.

He said " three hundred fifty " and I'm like, " How do you know that?"

And I got a napkin and a pen and I put a one in front of it and he said, " One thousand three hundred fifty."

And then I put a number in front of that and he's like, " Twenty-one thousand three hundred fifty."

And he just kept going until my napkin was filled with probably.. up to fifteen digits.

And we had never taught him. - Well, who would teach a two year old that?

Right, right.

You know, there's a rhythm to numbers and just something about that is very, in a weird way, very simple for him.

A lot of times I'm able to do what I do pretty naturally.

This is a long one.

Usually I try to do it without using a calculator if I can.

I was doing these really advanced things like algebra, geometry, and things like that.

Numbers can be found everywhere.

You can find them maybe at a supermarket.

You can find them in construction, the links of maybe walls that you have to put up.

You can really just find math everywhere.

Early on, he was just so hyper - focused on whatever was in front of him,

and he would rather sort shapes by their attributes than run around with trucks or things like that.