Twist a rectangular ice tray and the ends deform violently while the centre barely moves. The material is identical throughout. Only the geometry differs. Educational buildings distribute engagement the same way, and for the same reason.
When a pure bending moment is applied to a continuous member, the normal stress at any point in the cross section is governed entirely by that point's perpendicular distance from the centroidal axis:
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