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The AoPSWiki Words of the Week are the "featured" words on AoPSWiki for the week. Typically, every week one mathematical term and one "other" topic (a contest, a summer camp, a problem-solving strategy, etc.) will be selected.

All AoPSWiki users are particularly encouraged to edit the pages for the Words of the Week as a collaborative effort.

Words of the Week

AoPSWiki Words of the Week
(October 31 - November 6)

May 20-28

May 4-19

Squeeze Play Theorem (diff: [1])
Math Day at the Beach (diff: [2])

April 25-May 3

0.999... (diff: [3])
Seniors Pancyprian Competition (diff: [4])

April 15-24

Equation (diff: [5])
Mu Alpha Theta (diff: [6])

April 6-14

Manifold (diff: [7])
IMO Shortlist (diff: [8])

March 28-April 5

Economics scholarships (diff: [9])
Multiplicative function (diff: [10])

March 20-27

Michigan Mathematics Prize Competition (diff: [11])
Pascal's Theorem (diff: [12])

March 12-19

Reader's Digest National Word Power Challenge (diff: [13])
Isomorphism (diff: [14])

March 1-11

Gravity (diff: [15])
AMC 8 (diff: [16])

February 20-29

Momentum (diff: [17])
Center for Talented Youth (diff: [18])

February 12-19

Parallel Postulate (diff: [19])
AMC 10 (diff: [20])

February 4-11

Mathematics (diff: [21])
Cyclic sum (diff: [22])

January 29-February 3

Euclid's Elements (diff: [23])
Analysis (diff: [24])

January 17-28

Expected value (diff: [25])
Recursion (diff: [26])

January 10-16

Euclidean algorithm (diff: [27])
Euclid (diff: [28])

January 3-9

Graph (graph theory) (diff: [29])
Carl Friedrich Gauss (diff: [30])

WotW was on vacation December 20th through January 2nd.

December 13-19

Diophantine equation (diff: [31])
William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (diff: [32])

December 6-December 12

Fibonacci sequence (diff: [33])
Siemens Competition (diff: [34])

November 29-December 5

Logarithm (diff: [35])
Canada/USA Mathcamp (diff: [36])

November 22-28

Concurrence (diff: [37])
Intel Science Talent Search (diff: [38])

November 15-21

Generating function (diff: [39])
American Regions Mathematics League (diff: [40])

November 8-14

Asymptote (Geometry) (diff: [41])
AMC historical results (diff: [42])

November 1-7

Combinations (diff: [43])
Mathematics scholarships (diff: [44])

October 25-31

Congruent (geometry) (diff: [45])
Discrete math (diff: [46])

October 18-24

Trapezoid (diff: [47])
Mandelbrot Competition (diff: [48])

October 11-17

Unit circle (diff: [49])
Proof writing (diff: [50])

October 4-10

Law of Cosines (diff: [51])
USAMTS (diff: [52])

September 27-October 3

Probability (diff: [53])
USACO (diff: [54])

September 20-26

Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament (diff: [55])
Convex polygon (diff: [56])

September 13-19

MathPath (diff: [57])
Proportion (diff: [58])

September 6-12

iTest (diff: [59])
Pyramid (diff: [60])

Editing tips

For mathematical topics

Don't just define! Give examples. If the topic is related to problem solving, it is also good to provide examples of actual problems that utilize that technique.
Have lots of links to other related topics. Have links to other wiki pages that talk about terms that you use. Edit those other pages too!
Images are often very useful, especially in fields like geometry. See A:IMG for image related syntax. Or alternatively you can use Asymptote to draw geometry diagrams.

For other topics

For contests: describe
- how the contest works
- who runs it
- a bit about its history
- what types of students can/should participate
- any prizes
- other related contests
- a link to the contest's website
For summer camps:
- Nuts and bolts: where, how long, how much
- Compare to other summer camps
- Try to be objective. The forum is a place to give your opinions. The wiki is a place to give facts.

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 * [[Jordan-Hölder Theorem]]
 * [[Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad]]

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