How to bias material: lack confidence in it. How to bias responses to children expressing problems with grasping material: be human. How to gender-bias respon

How to bias material: lack confidence in it. How to bias responses to children expressing problems with grasping material: be human. How to gender-bias responses to kids having difficulty: be human while teaching both genders. More specifically, my teachers in the past weren't always able to clearly convey how equations directly related to their graphs. I developed a rote sense of functions, rather than a visual intuition. When I tutor kids, I pass on my intuition that since things real numbers raise to even powers gets you positive real numbers, your graph will be above or touching the x-axis. That's different enough from saying "Consider y=x^n. If n%2=0, then y>=0." to click for someone who isn't catching on to the symbolic reasoning.