My friend Catherine Johnson runs a bliki — which is part blog, part wiki — about the thorny world of teaching kids math. It’s called Kitchen Table Math, because Catherine and her blogging partner Carolyn have both found it necessary to personally augment their children’s numeric education at their kitchen tables.

The Rocky Mountain News ran an piece on their efforts which mentions “Math Wars” over different curricula, especially an innocuous-sounding one called “Everyday Math.” Derb, I wondered if you had an opinion on the state of math education in America, assuming of course that you’re not busy restructuring a world religion or something.