Is It Worth It Working Out Every Practice Problem In Math? (Without a calculator)

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I'm bouncing back between trig, algebra, and calc books. I've noticed that most of the problems at some point seem to distill into very tedious arithmetic. It is nice to have the prowess of calculating things by hand, but it is taking a while to finish each problem. Could I be spending my time more efficiently using a calculator to complete many more problems instead?