She has graduated from the Department of Mathematics Education at The Middle East Technical University in 1996. After working as a mathematics teacher for three years, she has been to the States for graduate studies and got her master and doctorate degrees from the Department of Mathematics Education at The Pennsylvania State University in 2001 and 2007, reprectively. She also worked as a full-time faculty member at The Pennslyvania State University between 2007 and 2008. She is the author of several book chapters on different concepts such as ratio, rational numbers and triangles. She also has responsibilities as an investigator in TUBITAK projects. Karagoz Akar is interested in the development of theories in teacher education; and, the learning and teaching of mathematics conceptually.