Abstract: With the deepening of education reform, higher requirements are put forward for higher vocational education. For higher vocational mathematics teaching, we should take cultivating students' mathematics core accomplishment as the basic starting point and actively explore a more scientific teaching mode. It is of great value to apply the idea of mathematical modeling in higher vocational mathematics teaching, especially to promote the reform of higher vocational mathematics teaching. This paper has carried on the research and discussion, based on the analysis of the value of mathematical modeling ideas in higher vocational mathematics teaching reform, based on the analyzed applying the idea of mathematical modeling in higher vocational mathematics teaching reform of the constraints, the last on how to more effectively play the positive role of mathematical modeling thought, promote higher vocational mathematics reform put forward the implementation of the strategy to get better results, the aim is to provide reference for improving the teaching quality of mathematics in higher vocational colleges.

Key words: Higher vocational mathematics, Teaching reform, Mathematical modeling idea