Didactics of Mathematics is concerned with exploring students’ difficulties in understanding mathematical concepts already from preschool and primary school age, designing teaching interventions, investigating teachers’ attitudes and beliefs about mathematics and its teaching, and studying the sociological dimensions of mathematics education.
Selected publications
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Kakavas, K., Zacharos, K., Skopeliti, E., Komis, V. (2021). Scratch programming as a tool for teaching angle as a rotation, Mediterranean Journal of Education, 1(2), 119-125.
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Shiakalli, M. A., & Zacharos, K., (2014). Building meaning through problem solving practices:the case of four-year olds, Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 35, 58–73.
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Koustourakis, G. and Zacharos, K. (2011). Changes in school mathematics knowledge in Greece: a Bernsteinian analysis. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 32(3), 369–387.
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Zacharos, K., Koliopoulos, D., Dokimaki, M. & Kassoumi, H. (2007). Views of prospective early childhood education teachers, towards mathematics and its instruction. European Journal of Teacher Education, 30(3), 305-318.
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Zacharos, K. (2006). Prevailing Educational Practices of Area Measurement and Students’ Failure. Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 25(3), 224-239.
