Abstract: In order to improve the teaching ability of mathematical modeling in high or middle schools, the students in normal universities need to have a high mathematical quality and experimental ability. Faced with the problems and difficulties in mathematical modeling teaching in high or middle schools, a specific teaching aim of the mathematical modeling course in the normal universities is proposed. Moreover, a teaching strategy is given correspondingly, which follows the thoughts of mathematical modeling and applies a less-teaching-and-more-practice teaching mode so as to explore a student-centered teaching method and cultivate college students’ comprehensive ability.

Key words: mathematical modeling, education reform, normal university, teaching strategy