With the continuous advancement of the reform and development of vocational education in China, mathematics, as an important public basic course, is facing great challenges. We should constantly innovate teaching means and methods, and at the same time ensure students' learning efficiency. In mathematics teaching in vocational colleges, teachers begin to emphasize the cultivation of students' learning ability, attach importance to students' main role in the learning process, and at the same time recognize teachers' guiding role to cultivate students' comprehensive ability, which is an important task of modern teaching. This paper is a useful exploration to realize the value of mathematics teaching in higher vocational colleges, constantly embodying the value of mathematics teaching, effectively mobilizing the enthusiasm and initiative of students and improving the efficiency of mathematics teaching. Keywords: comprehensive ability to explore the value of mathematics teaching The so-called value of mathematics education is the value of mathematics education to promote human development. Vocational education shoulders the mission of cultivating high-quality skilled talents facing the front-line needs of production, construction, service and management, and should also establish mathematical education values that meet the requirements of the times and the development of vocational education. For mathematics teaching in vocational colleges, the goal of teaching is to cultivate students' thinking mode, continuously improve students' thinking ability, let students experience the process of mathematical thinking and innovate the way of mathematical thinking, so as to better use mathematical knowledge to solve problems. 1. Understanding of the teaching value of vocational colleges 1. Mathematics education has practical value, cognitive value and practical value. The value of mathematics education is the practical application of mathematical knowledge and the application value of mathematical formulas, which provides almost endless methods for daily calculation and quantitative analysis. The value of mathematics education is further to train logical reasoning, provide ways and methods of thinking, and reflect the value of intellectual education, thinking and cognition. Mathematics education has great practical value. The industrial revolution and the development of productive forces need a lot of mathematical knowledge, and the industrialization process urgently needs to cultivate high-quality skilled professionals with certain applied mathematical knowledge. 2. Mathematics education has scientific value and humanistic value. Mathematics education, as the cause of exploring truth, embodies the rational scientific value of cultivating scientific spirit, improving mathematics literacy and adhering to the attitude of seeking truth from facts, and affects people's way of thinking, thus affecting people's way of life and even their way of life, thus embodying the cultural value of mathematics education. Mathematics education is of great value to the development of natural science and social science. As the carrier of mathematical culture, mathematics education provides people with a kind of values and advocates a kind of spirit. Mathematicians' realistic spirit of respecting facts and seeking truth from facts, their critical spirit of being brave in upholding truth, doubting and denying, and their fearless spirit of being brave in innovation and dedicating themselves to truth contain extremely rich cultural and educational values. 3. Mathematics education has good moral value, psychological value and aesthetic value. Mathematics education is the experience of students' psychological activities, which has the value of forming good non-intelligence quality, perfecting psychological structure, rigorous work habits and strong will quality; It has the value of cultivating students' observation, attention, memory, thinking and imagination, and ensuring the formation of good psychological quality. Mathematics uses symbols and variables to express the research object, and its charm becomes a catalyst for cultivating students' good personality, satisfying their psychological needs for beauty, and cultivating and improving their ability to appreciate, pursue and create beauty. Second, the effective exploration of the value of mathematics teaching in higher vocational colleges 1. The value of mathematics teaching lies in exploration. The spread of modern knowledge is getting faster and faster, and teachers' ideas should be constantly changed to keep up with the progress of the times and constantly supplement new ideas. We can't rely on the previous chalk and blackboard for teaching. In mathematics teaching, because of the characteristics of mathematics, students are often bored in learning, and learning is very boring, which affects students' enthusiasm. Simple memory mode and understanding the knowledge taught by teachers are not the main learning methods of students, but mainly require students to actively explore and ask questions in the process of learning, so as to find better solutions. In high school mathematics teaching, teachers should break the traditional teaching mode, take improving students' autonomous learning and inquiry as the teaching purpose, and encourage students to explore problems and solve doubts and doubts independently as the main purpose. 2. Mathematics teaching value