The invention discloses a method for synthesizing 3-methyl-3-butene-1-ol. The method comprises the following steps of preparing a paraformaldehyde isopropanol solution, adding a catalyst, carrying out the reaction of the paraformaldehyde isopropanol solution with isobutene, and purifying a crude 3-methyl-3-butene-1-ol. The added catalyst can be aluminium isopropoxide, aluminium propoxide, aluminium ethylate, aluminium methoxide, basic aluminium chloride and aluminium hydroxide, and the addition amount of the catalyst is 0.1-1% of the mass of formaldehyde. The reaction condition of the method is not critical, and the catalysts containing acids, alkalis and halogens are not used. According to the method, the requirement on production equipment is not high, and the low-temperature low-pressure reaction condition has low requirement on the safety of industrial production, and the investment on equipment is low. The method has the advantages that the selectivity and the conversion rate are high, the reaction selectivity of formaldehyde is more than or equal to 95.6%, the conversion rate of formaldehyde is more than or equal to 96.7%, the purity of purified 3-methyl-3-buten-1-ol is more than 99.5%, and the content of water in 3-methyl-3-buten-1-ol is less than 0.1%.