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My DS just finished his freshman year of college and is majoring in math and secondary education.  He went to a private high school and really wants to be a high school math teacher at his alma mater.  [/quote]

If he gets a serious Math degree from a good university (i.e., not merely math for secondary school teachers), then it should be possible for him to work during his summers at one of several Federal research facilities in metro DC.  He will need to figure out how to apply for the various “summer faculty hiring” programs.  Some faculty do this many summers in a row, often in the same Federal research facility and often in the same research groups.

Most such positions are outside the competitive civil service (some are only for university faculty, while others also include secondary school faculty) and as 3-month positions they lack benefits, but they do pay market rate per-hour for scientists & engineers doing research. Where I work, we do not have enough mathematical work to justify a full-time permanent mathematician, but we could use a solid mathematician every summer, provided the mathematician knows well how to use either Matlab or Mathematica or R.  A Masters degree in Mathematics, not in Education, is definitely helpful in getting hired for these positions.  
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