Use transparent color chips as markers for Bingo games. Provide children with Bingo cards and a number of transparent color chips equal to the number of boxes on the Bingo card. As you call out the numbers, objects or any other image displayed on the Bingo cards, children use the chips to mark off the images if they have them on their cards. The first person with a vertical, horizontal or diagonal line covered with transparent color chips wins the game.
Transparent color chips are an ideal tool to use for teaching children the pre-math skill of sorting. Review the concept of sorting with children; gather items with like attributes and offer them a pile of transparent color chips. Instruct students to sort the chips into piles of like colors: red chips with red chips, blue chips with blue chips and so forth. Through this activity, children can gain a clear picture of the concept of sorting.
Transparent color chips also serve as a manipulative for teaching patterns. Create numeric or alphabetic representations of patterns; ABAB or 1212, for example. Review the concept of patterning with children, explaining the repeating sequence of letters or numbers in the example you provide them with. Offer kids transparent color chips and encourage them to recreate the patterns using the transparent color chips. For example, children may use blue and red chips to recreate an ABAB pattern; blue, red, blue, red and so forth. Encourage children to use the chips to create different and more complex patterns.
Teach fractions with transparent color chips. Offer kids handfuls of chips and instruct them to count the number of chips they have. Explain to children that this total number represents the whole, or the denominator of a fraction. Inform students that the total number of each specific colored chip represents part of the whole, or the numerator. Encourage students to determine what fraction of their chips are specific colors. For example, if a child has a total of 10 chips and seven of them are red, 7/10 of her chips are red.