Abstract: Based on the spirit of "National Medium and Long-Term Plan for Education Reform and Development (2010-2020)", "National 13th Five-Year Plan for Education Development" and the new standards of future talents, aiming at the current situation of vocational college students' learning ability and higher mathematics teaching, it reflects on the problems in higher mathematics teaching, and puts forward some suggestions on the content of teaching materials, teaching methods, students' learning methods and students' self-management based on the learning ability theory.