Abstract: Teaching students how to self-study is the most important thing in education. However, how to develop self-study ability for students is still a big challenge for all teachers nowadays. This paper will analyze the concept of autonomous learners and the results of the research on self-study ability of primary students; it then identifies the basic elements to create the needs for self-study of primary students. Since then, the authors propose a number of solutions to support primary school teachers to build and organize the process of teaching mathematics towards increasing learners’ autonomy.
Keywords: Self-study, self-control, learners’ autonomy.