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FOUND IT! The article was called "Computer Science Doesn't Matter" (ya, a little disruptive, like I said) you can find it here: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/fk...

I really like the idea of teaching math in tandem with elementary programming. It demystifies writing code and can be very helpful in teaching important math concepts like functions, variables and graphing. At the very least, exposure to programming at an early age will get more kids interested in the subject.

Does anyone know of good examples of schools that are already doing this with something like Dr Racket?

I think you'd be interested in Bootstrap World, which is basically what you described: http://www.bootstrapworld.org/

Sounds like http://world.cs.brown.edu/

Thanks but no, it was an article not a book, I think it was in a PDF that I read on scribd or Google Docs Viewer.

edit: I feel like the title was something a little disruptive.