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> popular if controversial amongst math educators
I see some great suggestions being put forward on this thread. I am partial to CGI, which has a very strong research base, but this is technically a program for teachers learning to teach elementary math, not a curriculum for children. However, it is an easy read and gives great insights into how children learn arithmetic and how teachers can guide such learning.
Just a side note: teaching for conceptual understanding (which you seem to understand the importance of) is well accepted and not controversial at all among math educators, only among the general public and a few mathematicians, who sometimes do not understand the importance of a conceptual base in elementary education.
Two books you might be interested in reading are Tom Carpenter and Colleagues' Children's Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction and Thinking Mathematically: Integrating Arithmetic and Algebra.
Although these are professional books and not "academic" books, Carpenter and colleagues have produced some of the most widely cited research in mathematics education.