This study was conducted to analyze the education theories applied to teaching-learning from the perspective of mathematical education. To this end, 41 papers regarding mathematical education theories were selected as study subjects from among 1,190 papers published in Korea between 2000 and 2013 in the Journal of the Korean Society of Mathematical Education and the Journal of the Korean Society of Educational Studies in Mathematics, which are journals that specialize in mathematics education. These papers were classified according to mathematical education theory, study method, content field, and study subject to obtain the numbers of papers and percentages by category in order to analyze their contents.