Open AccessIn the current European context, and in the Spanish in particular, with the entire system in global crisis, the education system has the challenge of training people to be prepared to deal with the changing environment. Society needs creative and competitive enterprises that offer new products and services, with managers and workers trained for these tasks. Thus in the educational context, the acquisition of procedures and attitudes is gaining presence and the generic skills are becoming relevant in the whole educational process, and more specifically innovation competence. So from different areas are being proposed ways of teaching in order to develop this competence and arises the Innovation Pedagogy. We will see that many of the skills and abilities that compose the innovation competence can work on math classes with modeling projects and that this methodology is in the line of the Innovation Pedagogy.