With new Common Core State Standards assessments in K12 mathematics due to be in use by the start of the 2014-2015 school year, many district administrators and teachers do not know what they should know about them now and are not taking steps they should be taking to prepare for them. While they are aware that the assessments are being developed, educators generally do not understand what that means to them. The assessments are based on the Common Core State Standards that districts are using to revise their curricula and instruction in math as well as English Language Arts and Literacy. The Common Core assessments will probe more deeply than assessments do now into what students are learning in math and how they are learning it. Another major change that districts should be aware of is that the questions students are asked will be delivered online and answered online instead of on paper. While that will provide immediate results to teachers and administrators, it might require districts to install more computers and other technological tools, which could raise questions about how they will pay the costs in a period of tight budgets. One reason many districts are not paying much attention to the forthcoming assessments is that they are not known in their final form yet. Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for Colleges and Careers (PARCC) is one of two multistate consortia working to develop the assessments; the other is the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC). Even though the final assessments have not been released, some districts are finding that they have already engendered internal discord. Some teachers love them, but others hate them. Some are very in tune with what's coming, while others are saying students can't take a math test with a computer.