Mathematics education in primary schools is a specialized course in China's ordinary colleges and universities, which lasts for three years and belongs to the educational category of pedagogy and physical education. The purpose of the major is to cultivate primary school mathematics teachers and class teachers who have good professional ethics, humanistic quality and modern educational concepts, master the basic theories, basic knowledge and basic skills of primary school mathematics education, and can meet the needs of rural basic education development and education and teaching reform.

There is a lot of knowledge to be learned in primary school mathematics education major. First, the professional core courses, such as mathematical analysis, advanced algebra, spatial analytic geometry, probability theory and mathematical statistics, elementary number theory, elementary mathematics basic theory, elementary mathematics teaching design, elementary mathematics teaching method, elementary mathematics methodology and elementary mathematics experiment. Followed by public basic courses, such as gross, thinking, college English and so on. In addition, there are internships, such as school education internships, teacher etiquette, teacher skills training, and internships in primary schools, junior high schools or social education and training institutions.

The employment direction is mainly for primary schools, junior high schools or social education and training institutions, and engaged in teaching research and management in mathematics teaching and management positions.