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For everyday numbers to make sense, they have to have something called the distributive property, which is best seen through an example.

This is the distributive property.

“In math, it’s called the distributive property. In people, it’s called taking care of one another,” he implores.

Because it is a theorem in category theory, it is stated in a very general and abstract way, but she also showed how to apply it to a more concrete example, the distributive property of multiplication and addition.

Ms. Ubiarco is giving Sabrina a math lesson — about the distributive property — on a white board in the family’s living room.