Letters have different values in Scrabble - how are they decided
upon? And would the values be the same for other languages? Find
the frequency distribution for ordinary English, and use it to
help you crack the code. Written for teachers, this article
discusses mathematical representations and takes, in the second
part of the article, examples of reception children's own
representations. Here is the start of a six-part challenge. Can
you get to the end and crack the final message? Class 5 were
looking at the first letter of each of their names. They created
different charts to show this information. Can you work out
which member of the class was away on that day? Substitution and
Transposition all in one! How fiendish can these codes get?