It's a scrabble

Letters have different values in Scrabble - how are they decided upon? And would the values be the same for other languages?
Exploring and noticing Working systematically Conjecturing and generalising Visualising and representing Reasoning, convincing and proving
Being curious Being resourceful Being resilient Being collaborative

Problem

Here's a sort of code you may have seen before:

A, E, I, O, U, L, N, R, S, T  1 
D, G  2 
B, C, M, P  3 
F, H, V, W, Y  4 
K  5 
J, X  8 
Q, Z   10  

 

If you exchanged each letter of your name for a number, what would the code be?

Mine is Lynne so my code is 1 4 1 1 1 . The numbers add up to 8 which is not much!!

What is your name worth using this code?

Try some other names - what names are worth the most and which are worth the least?

Are longer names always worth more?

Can you work out why certain letters are worth a lot and why others are only worth one?