Numbers have found a wide place in many studies and curricula from the past to the present. Within the scope of the research, which was designed with the descriptive content analysis method, a total of 5021 volumes of the 124 journals in our country were reviewed, 301 articles were determined and the data obtained were analysed with the content.The results are as follows: It was determined that the number of articles, which were first published in Turkey in 1986 on numbers and operations learning area, began to increase from 2013. The reviewed articles were designed mostly with the case study method and the secondary school level was mostly used as the sample in the articles. Besides, addition and subtraction with natural numbers were mainly studied at the primary school level, and at the secondary school level, respectively fractions, operations with natural numbers and fractions were studied in sub-learning areas.