Math Wars: A Never-ending Debate

A story in the Sunday Seattle Times summarized the current math wars that have ignited parents in Seattle as well as other nearby districts. I confess, I was always one of those kids who had trouble with math (solving word puzzles was always so much easier!), but both of my kids--who went through the Bellevue school system as that district adopted a new math curriculum--seemed to sail through. Truth is--I'm not sure it was the curriculum that really mattered. I think they just "get" math in a way I never did.
My experience tells me that whether or not you are "good" at math may depend on more than how it is taught. And some of us will never be really good at it.

Seattle magazine entered the debate more than a year ago, when we ran a story about that looked at research that links age to the ability to learn math. We already know that our brains are most ready to lean a foreign language prior to age 10; could there be a similar window to learning higher math concepts?